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Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 11:49:47 -0800
From: Dale Anson <danson@germane-software.com>
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Sounds like the proposed <antreturn /> is identical to the existing 
<antfetch/> in ant-contrib.

Dale


Antoine L�vy-Lambert wrote:
> Sathyanarayana V. wrote:
> 
>> Problem with 'subant' is: it doesnt communicate/contribute to overall 
>> build status. subprojects may fail, but  the overall process will be 
>> successful. Wouldnt it contribute in over all build status.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sathya
>>
>>
>>  
>>
> My view is that ant is not designed to build several projects, with some 
> projects failing and other being successful.
> gump is really the tool that would be OK for this purpose.
> 
> Concerning your ants task, there was a proposal for something a bit 
> similar called <antreturn/> which is a flavour of <ant/> which can 
> return properties.
> 
> What you can do in ant 1.6 would be to use macrodef to describe the 
> build of a generic subproject, and foreach or for from ant-contrib plus 
> try/catch to get the status of each subproject
> 
> 
> for instance (untested pseudocode)
> 
> macrodef build_one_subproject
> 
> try
> build the subproject
> 
> 
> catch
>    <property name="${@{sub-project-name}-failure}" value="true"/>
> 
> endmacrodef
> 
> <build_one_subproject sub-project-name="subproj_1"/>
> 
> <build_one_subproject sub-project-name="subproj_2"/>
> 
> <build_one_subproject sub-project-name="subproj_3"/>
> 
> <echo >${subroj_1-failure}</echo>
> <echo >${subroj_2-failure}</echo>
> <echo >${subroj_3-failure}</echo>
> 
> this would be doing what you would like.
> You can probably iterate among your subprojects using for or foreach 
> from ant-contrib.
> 
> Cheers,
> Antoine
> 
>>
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Sathyanarayana V. wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>>    Recently,  as part of automating my project builds, I have used 
>>>> CruiseControl along with Ant.  Surprisingly, I didn't find any task 
>>>> to build/compile all the subprojects    of a project.  My purpose 
>>>> was to have  the compile time errors of all the subprojects as part 
>>>> of automated build report. The 'ant' task will stop building as soon 
>>>> as one subproject fails. I tried using java/exec tasks with 
>>>> 'failonerror '  attribute as false, but the problem with  this 
>>>> approach is that build status of subprojects is not available to the 
>>>> main build process and resulting Total build successful though 
>>>> subprojects are failing in-between.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> OK
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>>   So, I have written new task  called 'ants' and used for my 
>>>> automated builds. This task internally uses 'ant' only.  What I 
>>>> would like to know is: Can I post this task of mine to apache or Is 
>>>> there any existing task/workaround available for the above required 
>>>> behavior.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Ant 1.6 has '<subant> that wil bulk compile a project ... does this 
>>> do what you want or are there changes you'd recommend?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Also ant 1.6 has a -keep-going which will continue exectuting targets 
>> that do not rely on the task that failed.
>> Peter
>>
>>  
>>
>>>> Thanks in advance
>>>> Sathya
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>
>>>   
> 
> 
> 
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