Re: [groovy-dev] ant.inport from groovy?

On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 12:35 +0100, Chris Miles wrote:
> Hi - I want to invoke a couple of Ant targets before running my gant
> stuff.
>  
> I can include my common ant stuff with
>   ant.'import' ( file : 'buildSWFcommon.xml' )
> but when I try
>  
> target ('try13' : '' ) {
>   depends ( 'init' )
>   // stuff using pre-defined properties and targets
>   ...
> }
> (init is defined in buildSWFcommon.xml) I get
>   Target `init' does not exist in this project.
>  
> Using -d to gant I find that gant is looking for init in build.xml -
> which is strange.
>  
> Can I invoke the buildSWFcommon.xml target 'init' ?

ant.'import' currently loads the XML file into the Ant project but this
does not make the target names available to the Gant framework -- it
should perhaps but currently it does not.  An as yet unpublished piece
of work I had in mind for Gant 1.5.0 was to much better integrate the
namespaces of the Ant project and the Gant framework.

Currently (Gant 1.2.0 and later if I remember correctly) there is a tool
AntFile which can be used to include an Ant XML file and which bridges
things so that the targets from the Ant file are Gant targets:

includeTool << gant.tools.AntFile
antFile.includeTargets ( 'ant/xml/file/path/as/string' )

You can use a list of strings as well to include multiple files.  Of
course using File objects should be allowed as well but I don't think
they are.   Seems like a good thing for a JIRA issue!
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