Looping in ant

[Steve Cohen <St...@ignitesports.com>]

I recognize that ant may not be the right place to do this, but I now
find myself in a situation where some sort of looping construct would be
very convenient

something like 
<loop until="${condition}" >
... do tasks
   <sleep...>
</loop>

My use case for this is to run some test repeatedly at timed intervals.

I realize that the "until" part of this might raise some immutability
hackles, but I would even be able to live without that, just an
unconditional loop.

Is there a way to do this?  I don't see one.  I suspect someone might
have raised this before it was rejected.  If so, can someone give me a
brief update as to why it has been rejected?

Re: Looping in ant

[Ken Wood <kw...@i2.com>]

Why not set up a shell script that invokes ant with the target(s)
for your test(s)? The shell script would have the loop and
sleep...

Steve Cohen wrote:

> I recognize that ant may not be the right place to do this, but I now
> find myself in a situation where some sort of looping construct would be
> very convenient
>
> something like
> <loop until="${condition}" >
> ... do tasks
>    <sleep...>
> </loop>
>
> My use case for this is to run some test repeatedly at timed intervals.
>
> I realize that the "until" part of this might raise some immutability
> hackles, but I would even be able to live without that, just an
> unconditional loop.
>
> Is there a way to do this?  I don't see one.  I suspect someone might
> have raised this before it was rejected.  If so, can someone give me a
> brief update as to why it has been rejected?


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