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From: "Nico Seessle" <nico@seessle.de>
To: <ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: Redirecting output of one (or more) tasks?
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 16:42:31 +0200
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Hi,

I have two tasks (one compiles, the other run's the junit-tests). These
tasks are inside a target which is called several times using antcall to
build several sub-projects.

I want to catch the output of javac and junit and send a mail containing
these files.

This is what I'm currently doing:

1. Modified antcall to accept the output-attribute
2. Put both tasks in their own targets and call each of these targets with
output specifying a different file (Output would be overwritten otherwise)
3. Send an email using these two files.

This is what I would like to do (and I have already implemented it that it
would work):

<tasklog output="task.log">
    <javac .../>
    <junit .../>
</tasklog>

Now the "real" question:

To use something like the above a task must be able to accept other tasks as
a nested element.

Two solutions came to my mind:

1. I write a task which accepts Javac and JUnit as nested elements
2. It would be possible to create a task that accepts *any* other task as a
nested element

Solution 1 would be simple and you don't need to tell me how to do it, but I
wanted to know what others are thinking about solution 2.

I could only think of the following argument against it:

It opens ant to things we don't want to have (for example
     <conditional if="...">
         <task1/>
         <task2/>
     </conditional> )

So what do you think?

Nico