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From: "Bailey, Darragh" <dbailey@hp.com>
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Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 10:46:00 +0000
Subject: RE: Better alternative than using foreach, for and if/then/else?
Thread-Topic: Better alternative than using foreach, for and if/then/else?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:bodewig@apache.org]=20
> Sent: 06 May 2010 04:39
> To: user@ant.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Better alternative than using foreach, for and=20
> if/then/else?
>=20
> On 2010-05-05, Bailey, Darragh <dbailey@hp.com> wrote:
>=20
> > 1) Is for/foreach the only real option for what I'm attempting to
> > accomplish here in building multiple end targets based on=20
> the contents
> > of properties?
>=20
> I'd recommend writing a custom task for this rather than trying to
> implement it in XML.  Using Ant's support for scripting engines you
> could implement that task inline - for example if compiling and
> deploying a Java task as part of the build process was too difficult.

That does seem to be the best solution at the moment, I was hoping that the=
re would be a way to accomplish this through adjusting how I was trying to =
use Ant.


> If you use Java6 you have all parts required to write tasks in
> JavaScript together.
>=20
> There may be tricks to make things work with pure XML and the=20
> antcontrib
> tasks, but I'm not convinced the result will be maintainable.
>=20
> Stefan

Yeah, I think that a combination of for/foreach and some macrodefs could ac=
complish what I want, but I'm not sure how well it can be maintained. I'll =
probably experiment with that before building a custom task in Java, at the=
 very least to have a comparison.


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Regards,
Darragh Bailey

Systems Software Engineer
Hewlett Packard Galway Ltd.

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 Park, Galway
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