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From: "Anderson, Robert H - MWT" <Anderson.Robert@menlolog.com>
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Cc: "Weir, John" <john.weir@gs.com>
Subject: RE: Getting input in  a custom ant task
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 08:57:16 -0700 
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Perhaps a combination of the <input>, <replace> and <zip> tasks would suit
your needs without having to use a custom task. This is how I would do it...

Create a reademe.txt file with a replacement token. During the build promt
for input with the input task. Then use the <replace> task the enter the
intup into the readme.txt file. Then zip it up.

I know this does not answer your question but it might help you get the
results you want.

-Rob A

-----Original Message-----
From: Baldry, Scot M [mailto:Scot.Baldry@gs.com]
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 6:13 AM
To: 'ant-user@apache.org'
Cc: Weir, John
Subject: Getting input in a custom ant task


Hi,

I'm trying to write a custom ant task that will essentially jar up a
collection of classes and store an internal readme.txt that contains the
developers comments on why the changes have been packaged. To achieve this I
have extended the existing 'Zip' task and added my own routines to prompt
for comments and compose the readme.txt file.

The problem I am having is that the following lines of code cause very
strange behaviour when run as part of the task:

                System.out.print("\nWould you like to continue (Y/N): ");
                String response = input.readLine();
                if (response.equalsIgnoreCase("Y"))
                    return true;
                else if (response.equalsIgnoreCase("N"))
                    return false;
           
Basically, the build appears to hang but is infact waiting for input. When I
enter something and press return the output shows the line "Would you like
to continue?" - even though it appears before the input.readLine statement.
Since I do this in several places within the task I have made sure that the
various BufferedReaders that I use to grab input are being closed in the
relevant finally blocks.

I'm running Ant 1.5 on JDK 1.4.1 - as far as I can remember similar code ran
without problems under Ant 1.3 and Ant 1.4 under JDK 1.3. Anyone able to
provide an insight as to what may be happening?

Scot