Email notification on success/failed build using ant target.

Question

Hi all, my current code(build.xml) enables me to send email on successful build, but when failed, nothing happens. The targets are called from a build.bat file through command similar to " ........ -DrepositoryAddress=%1 -DbuildResultUUID=%2 startPublish " (for all targets, in order startActivity->startPublish->mailer->startActivity).

Now, I also want email notification when the build fails.I guess trycatch will help me get the task done, but HOW? Not sure about it, where/how to place it(edit it?)? I kind of used trycatch, it gave me something like " Problem: failed to create task or type trycatch" . What modifications are required in current script/xml file to enable this functionality of sending email indicating status of build (successful or failed). Please guide/help.Thanks so much.

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    <target name="startActivity">
        <fail message="Missing repositoryAddress" unless="repositoryAddress"/>
        <fail message="Missing buildResultUUID" unless="buildResultUUID"/>
        <fail message="Missing activityLabel" unless="activityLabel"/>

    <!-- Replace ADMIN with your real credentials. -->
        <startBuildActivity 
                buildResultUUID="${buildResultUUID}"
                label="${activityLabel}"
                autoComplete="true"
                    repositoryAddress="${repositoryAddress}"
                userId="BuildAdmin"
                    password="Abc1234"/>
</target>

    <target name="startPublish">
    <sleep seconds="10"/>
        <fail message="Missing repositoryAddress" unless="repositoryAddress"/>
        <fail message="Missing buildResultUUID" unless="buildResultUUID"/>

    <artifactfilePublisher repositoryAddress="${repositoryAddress}"
                userId="BuildAdmin"
                   password="Abc1234"
                   buildResultUUID="${buildResultUUID}"
                       filePath="E:\Setup.msi"
                       label="Installer" />

</target>


    <target name="mailer">
     <property name="report" value="E:\Report.html"/>

             <mail from="[email protected]" messagemimetype="text/html" charset="ISO-7779-1" messagefile="${report}" mailhost="HMMMM.company.com" mailport="25" tolist="[email protected]" subject="Build status" />

</target>

    <taskdef name="startBuildActivity"
             classname="com.ibm.team.build.ant.task.StartBuildActivityTask" />
    <taskdef name="artifactfilePublisher"
             classname="com.ibm.team.build.ant.task.ArtifactFilePublisherTask" />


</project>'

Answer 1

you can implement a BuildListener that sends the email as described in the ant FAQ