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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:06:04 -0800 (PST)
From: Maarten Coene <maarten_coene@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Ivy can mutate Ant properties?  What?
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Hi Carlton,

Ivy is indeed a very powerfull tool, it can even change Ant properties ... ;-)
Just kidding and you are probably right, we should not modify properties that were set outside Ivy. However, I think it could be a difficult excercise to modify the current behaviour because the Ivy Ant tasks use some properties to pass state (like resolve information for instance). If Ivy cannot set/update these properties correctly, unpredictable results can happen.

And as you already know, you can create a JIRA ticket if you want to see this changed in some future release...

Maarten


----- Original Message ----
From: "Brown, Carlton" <Carlton.Brown@compucredit.com>
To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 7:14:08 PM
Subject: RE: Ivy can mutate Ant properties?  What?

The ivy task mutated an Ant property in the Ant script, not in a
settings file.  Is that still expected behavior?  It's true that the
property coincided with a commonly used Ivy property, but I would not
expect Ivy to mutate any Ant property that was not set by Ivy itself.

-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn Castrianni [mailto:Shawn.Castrianni@halliburton.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 1:02 PM
To: 'ivy-user@ant.apache.org'
Subject: RE: Ivy can mutate Ant properties? What?

Yes, this is default behavior.  IVY settings files can have properties
with the option to alter pre-existing properties.  The option is in the
"override" attribute.  If you set it to false, then you will not mutate
any ANT pre-existing properties.

---
Shawn Castrianni


-----Original Message-----
From: Brown, Carlton [mailto:Carlton.Brown@compucredit.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:57 AM
To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org
Subject: Ivy can mutate Ant properties? What?

I was surprised today to observe that the ivy:info task can mutate Ant
properties, which are supposedly immutable.

In this snippet of Ant code, I hardcode some Ant properties.  After a
call to ivy:info, these properties have changed, which should not occur
(as far as I understand).

Can anyone explain what's going on here?

        <target name="ivy-mutability" depends="ivy-load-commonsettings">
                <property name="ivy.organisation" value="foo.bar"/>
                <property name="ivy.module" value="mutant"/>
                <property name="ivy.revision" value="9.8"/>
                <property name="ivy.status" value="beta"/>

        <echo message="pre-info organization: ${ivy.organisation}"/>
        <echo message="pre-info module: ${ivy.module}" />
        <echo message="pre-info revision: ${ivy.revision}" />
        <echo message="pre-info status: ${ivy.status}" />

        <ivy:info settingsRef="module-settings"
                file="${module.output.subdir}/ivy.xml" />

        <echo message="post-info organization: ${ivy.organisation}" />
        <echo message="post-info module: ${ivy.module}" />
        <echo message="post-info revision: ${ivy.revision}" />
        <echo message="post-info status: ${ivy.status}" />
        </target>

This is the output:
test-mutability:
     [echo] pre-info organization: foo.bar
     [echo] pre-info module: mutant
     [echo] pre-info revision: 9.8
     [echo] pre-info status: beta
[ivy:info] :: Ivy 2.0.0-rc1 - 20080916082609 ::
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ ::
:: loading settings :: file =
c:\allworkspaces\ebiz-1.6-rmtest\ivy-template\ivy-settings-common.xml
     [echo] post-info organization: com.mycompany.myorg
     [echo] post-info module: mymodule
     [echo] post-info revision: 3.0-dev1
     [echo] post-info status: integration


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