Worked wonderfully, thanks!



On Jun 2, 2011, at 3:37 PM, Vimil Saju <vimilsaju@yahoo.com> wrote:

> You could also use the trycatch task from antcontrib. the try task has a catch block that executes when any of the tasks within the try block fails.
> 
> --- On Thu, 6/2/11, Eric Fetzer <elstonkers@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> From: Eric Fetzer <elstonkers@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Do things based on project success or failure
> To: "Ant Users List" <user@ant.apache.org>
> Date: Thursday, June 2, 2011, 12:31 PM
> 
> No problem Rob!  The way I posted works great, I was just wondering if there was 
> a more graceful way to do it.  I think I can get the properties to pass as well 
> with the echoproperties task...  Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: "Echlin, Robert" <Robert.Echlin@windriver.com>
> To: Ant Users List <user@ant.apache.org>
> Sent: Thu, June 2, 2011 1:29:18 PM
> Subject: RE: Do things based on project success or failure
> 
> Hi Eric,
> I didn't get that ant was failing out on you. Sorry.
> I will check on that.
> 
> Rob 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Eric Fetzer [mailto:elstonkers@yahoo.com] 
>> Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 2:22 PM
>> To: Ant Users List
>> Subject: Re: Do things based on project success or failure
>> 
>> Thanks Robert, I've already got the db stuff working using 
>> jdbc and <sql>.  Of course with a mysql database, it didn't 
>> work until I added perms for the user from the IP that I'm 
>> talking to it on:
>> 
>> grant all on dbname.* to 'username'@'ip.addy' identified by 
>> 'userpassword';
>> 
>> I don't see, however, how antcall or subant will solve my 
>> issue with being able to do something after the build fails.  
>> Ant turns tail and runs after a failure, there is no saying:  
>> onFailure DO... That's why I'm calling it from the exec task. 
>>   Then I separate from the process and gather a return code on 
>> the other side...  Maybe I'm missing something.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Eric
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ________________________________
>> From: "Echlin, Robert" <Robert.Echlin@windriver.com>
>> To: Ant Users List <user@ant.apache.org>
>> Sent: Thu, June 2, 2011 10:02:02 AM
>> Subject: RE: Do things based on project success or failure
>> 
>> Hi Eric,
>> Look up "subant" and "antcall" for a start. They are in "core tasks".
>> If you put both tasks in the same xml file, you will use "antcall".
>> 
>> Also, for your DB operation, look up "sql" task, which uses JDBC.
>> 
>> Rob
>> 
>> --
>> Rob Echlin, Documentation Systems Architect, Wind River
>> direct: +1.613.270.5796  |  robert.echlin@windriver.com
>> 
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Eric Fetzer [mailto:elstonkers@yahoo.com]
>>> Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 11:20 AM
>>> To: Ant Users List
>>> Subject: Re: Do things based on project success or failure
>>> 
>>> Of course this presents me another issue.  How do I gather 
>> up all of 
>>> the command line arguments that were passed to me so that I can 
>>> re-pass them to the next ant script.  Is there a way to say:  
>>> <property name="allArgs"
>>> value="allOfMyArgsThatWerePassedToMe"/>?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Eric
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Eric Fetzer <elstonkers@yahoo.com>
>>> To: Ant Users <user@ant.apache.org>
>>> Sent: Thu, June 2, 2011 9:02:14 AM
>>> Subject: Do things based on project success or failure
>>> 
>>> I have to update a database one way or another based on project 
>>> success or failure.  So I'm messing around with the <exec> 
>> task with 
>>> errorproperty attribute.  I'm trying to make it so that 
>> failure will 
>>> test one way vs. success testing another.  The best thing I 
>> can come 
>>> up with is the following:
>>> 
>>> <----------------------------------------------------------------->
>>> Build File 1:
>>> 
>>> <project name="test" default="test">
>>>  <taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml"/>
>>>  <target name="test">
>>>     <exec dir="." executable="cmd.exe" errorproperty="returncode">
>>>       <arg line="/c ant -f test2.xml -Dgood=${good}"/>
>>>     </exec>
>>>     <echo message="returncode is: ${returncode}"/>
>>>    
>>>     <if>
>>>       <equals arg1="${returncode}" arg2="" />
>>>       <then>
>>>         <echo message="It succeeded"/>
>>>       </then>
>>>       <else>
>>>         <echo message="It failed"/>
>>>       </else>
>>>     </if>
>>>  </target>
>>> </project>
>>> 
>>> Build File 2:
>>> 
>>> <project name="test2" default="test">
>>>  <taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml"/>
>>>  <target name="test">
>>>    <if>
>>>    <equals arg1="${good}" arg2="true" />
>>>      <then>
>>>        <echo message="Good!"/>
>>>      </then>
>>>      <else>
>>>        <echo message="Bad"/>
>>>        <fail/>
>>>      </else>
>>>    </if>
>>>  </target>
>>> </project>
>>> 
>>> </----------------------------------------------------------------->
>>> 
>>> So if I pass >ant -f test.xml -Dgood="true"
>>> I end up in the success code.  Or if I pass >ant -f test.xml 
>>> -Dgood="anythingElse"
>>> I end up in the failure code.
>>> 
>>> Does anyone have a more graceful way to do this?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Eric
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