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Posted to users@maven.apache.org by John Taylor <jd...@roe.ac.uk> on 2005/01/09 13:59:52 UTC
Accessing properties in Maven that are set in Ant subbuilds?
Hi,
Does anyone know if it's possible to access properties defined in calls to
Ant from Maven? Ant seems to see Maven's properties perfectly well, but not
vice versa
For example
in my maven.xml
<property name="mymaven.prop" value="hello"/>
<goal name="foo">
<ant target = "bar" dir="." antfile="build.xml"/>
<echo message="Ant property ${myant.prop}"/>
</goal>
and in the build.xml in the same directory:
<target name="bar">
<echo>Maven property: ${mymaven.prop}</echo>
<property name="myant.prop" value="world"/>
</target>
Only $mymaven.prop gets echoed.
I suspect this might actually be an Ant feature (properties in a master
build are visible to sub-builds but not vice versa), but you never know -
there might be some clever and Mavenish way to get round it.
John
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Re: Accessing properties in Maven that are set in Ant subbuilds?
Posted by John Taylor <jd...@roe.ac.uk>.
Cheers Brett - that does the trick.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brett Porter" <br...@gmail.com>
To: "Maven Users List" <us...@maven.apache.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: Accessing properties in Maven that are set in Ant subbuilds?
> not that I am aware of. I'd suggest creating a temporary properties
> file at the end of your ant build with the values you need, and
> reading that back in maven afterwards.
>
> - Brett
>
>
> On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 12:59:52 -0000, John Taylor <jd...@roe.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Does anyone know if it's possible to access properties defined in calls
>> to
>> Ant from Maven? Ant seems to see Maven's properties perfectly well, but
>> not
>> vice versa
>>
>> For example
>> in my maven.xml
>>
>> <property name="mymaven.prop" value="hello"/>
>> <goal name="foo">
>> <ant target = "bar" dir="." antfile="build.xml"/>
>> <echo message="Ant property ${myant.prop}"/>
>> </goal>
>>
>> and in the build.xml in the same directory:
>>
>> <target name="bar">
>> <echo>Maven property: ${mymaven.prop}</echo>
>> <property name="myant.prop" value="world"/>
>> </target>
>>
>> Only $mymaven.prop gets echoed.
>>
>> I suspect this might actually be an Ant feature (properties in a master
>> build are visible to sub-builds but not vice versa), but you never know -
>> there might be some clever and Mavenish way to get round it.
>>
>> John
>>
>> =====================================
>> John Taylor
>> Astrogrid Java Developer
>> http://software.astrogrid.org
>> Royal Observatory of Edinburgh
>> +44 (0) 131 668 8329
>> skype id: johndavidtaylor
>> =====================================
>>
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Re: Accessing properties in Maven that are set in Ant subbuilds?
Posted by Brett Porter <br...@gmail.com>.
not that I am aware of. I'd suggest creating a temporary properties
file at the end of your ant build with the values you need, and
reading that back in maven afterwards.
- Brett
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 12:59:52 -0000, John Taylor <jd...@roe.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
> Does anyone know if it's possible to access properties defined in calls to
> Ant from Maven? Ant seems to see Maven's properties perfectly well, but not
> vice versa
>
> For example
> in my maven.xml
>
> <property name="mymaven.prop" value="hello"/>
> <goal name="foo">
> <ant target = "bar" dir="." antfile="build.xml"/>
> <echo message="Ant property ${myant.prop}"/>
> </goal>
>
> and in the build.xml in the same directory:
>
> <target name="bar">
> <echo>Maven property: ${mymaven.prop}</echo>
> <property name="myant.prop" value="world"/>
> </target>
>
> Only $mymaven.prop gets echoed.
>
> I suspect this might actually be an Ant feature (properties in a master
> build are visible to sub-builds but not vice versa), but you never know -
> there might be some clever and Mavenish way to get round it.
>
> John
>
> =====================================
> John Taylor
> Astrogrid Java Developer
> http://software.astrogrid.org
> Royal Observatory of Edinburgh
> +44 (0) 131 668 8329
> skype id: johndavidtaylor
> =====================================
>
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