How to take the values of argument for a defined task into a list (of values) without to have to rewrite the task for each value of argument ? Example: I want to avoid to have to rewrite three time the same task for echoing three different values (value 1, value 2, value 3): <exec executable="cmd"> <arg value="/c"/> <arg value="value...
How to replace tree calls to "myMacro": <myMacro value="value 1"/> <myMacro value="value 2"/> <myMacro value="value 3"/> By only one call who would use a list of three elements: value 1, value 2, value 3 ...
I'm writing an Ant macrodef in an antlib file to be distributed in a Jar. As part of that macrodef, I'm copying the contents of one file to a temporary file and doing some filtering during the copy (replacing tokens and such). Now, this is all good and fine if the macrodef is referencing the file to copy on the file system. However, thi...
I'm going to post a question that I've seen variants of elsewhere, but where I've not quite seen the answer I came up with. I'll subsequently post my answer. In order to modularize my build script using macros, I would like to put both the updatetask and the task I want to execute if it is not up to date, in the same macro. How do I do...
I have a simple macro (simplified version below). At the moment it assumes that there will be a single value for a single argument, however there might be multiple values for that argument. How can I pass in 0+ values for that argument so that the macro is usable in situations where I need to pass in 0+ values for that argument, not just...
I'm trying to debug a macrodef in Ant. I cannot seem to find a way to display the contents of a parameter sent as an element. <project name='debug.macrodef'> <macrodef name='def.to.debug'> <attribute name='attr' /> <element name='elem' /> <sequential> <echo>Sure, the attribute is easy to debug: @{attr}</echo> <...
Hi, I have the following code in a nant build script: <project name="fgs"> <property name="build.dir" value="build"/> <property name="build.bin.dir" value="${build.dir}/bin"/> <fileset id="provider.1.0-references" basedir="${build.bin.dir}"> <include name="thenameofadllfile.*"/> </fileset> <macrodef name="build-dist"> <at...
Say that I need to do something like: <copy todir="${DEPLOYMENT_DIR}" overwrite="true"> <fileset dir="dir1" /> <fileset dir="dir2" /> <fileset dir="dir3" /> ... <if> <equals arg1="${SPECIAL_BUILD}" arg2="true"/> <then> <fileset dir="dir7" /> <fileset dir="dir8" /> ....