Call Ant Target Multiple Times with Different Parameters
Is It Possible in Ant to Call the Same Target Multiple Times with Different Parameters? My Command Looks Like the Following: Ant Unittest -Dproject='Proj1'...
Is it possible in Ant to call the same target multiple times with different parameters?
My command looks like the following:
ant unittest -Dproject='proj1' unittest -Dproject='proj2'
The problem is that unittest gets run twice, but only for proj2:
unittest:
[echo] Executing unit test for project proj2
unittest:
[echo] Executing unit test for project proj2
I know that I can run two separate ant commands, but that is going to cause additional problems with the unit test report files.
1 Answer
You could add another target to invoke your unittest target twice, with different parameters, using the antcall task e.g.
<project name="test" default="test">
<target name="test">
<antcall target="unittest">
<param name="project" value="proj1"/>
</antcall>
<antcall target="unittest">
<param name="project" value="proj2"/>
</antcall>
</target>
<target name="unittest">
<echo message="project=${project}"/>
</target>
</project>
Output:
test:
unittest:
[echo] project=proj1
unittest:
[echo] project=proj2
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 0 seconds
Alternatively, you could change the unittest target to be a macrodef:
<project name="test" default="test">
<target name="test">
<unittest project="proj1"/>
<unittest project="proj2"/>
</target>
<macrodef name="unittest">
<attribute name="project"/>
<sequential>
<echo message="project=@{project}"/>
</sequential>
</macrodef>
</project>
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