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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:49:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Diane Holt <holtdl@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Task from a task?
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--- Jeffrey A Kenward <kenwardj@dteenergy.com> wrote:
> What's the best way to invoke a task from another task?
> 
> For instance, I'm trying to write a task to search for build files
> further down in the build tree and invoke the ANT task on it once it's
> found.

You could use the newly submitted (but not committed) <foreach> task (I
picked up Chris Greenlee's updated version) -- see the ant-dev mail
archives at message:
  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-dev&m=98842104504477&w=2

It's designed to do <antcall>'s, which means running a target in the
current build-file, but that target could do an <ant>. For example:

  <target name="recurse">
    <taskdef name="foreach"
       classname="org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.ForeachTask"/>
    <foreach target="runAnt">
      <param name="file">
        <fileset dir="." includes="**/build.xml"/>
      </param>
    </foreach>
  </target>

  <target name="runAnt">
    <ant antfile="${file}"/>
  </target>

This will run the default target in each build.xml file in every
subdirectory of the current directory. If you want to run a specific
target in the sub-project build-files, include the "target" attribute in
the <ant> task (include nested <property>'s if you want to override
property values in the sub-project build-files).

Note: You'll need to pick up the latest Ant.java from CVS, as apparently
the <foreach> task hits a bug that was in the 1.3 version, which has since
been fixed in CVS.

Diane

=====
(holtdl@yahoo.com)



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