Importing files - at the end of the file or not?

[Jon Skeet <Jo...@clearswift.com>]

I'm trying to update our build procedures using some of the guidelines
in
http://www.1060.org/blogxter/resources/5/ant-1.7.pdf
 
They claim that an imported file is added to the *end* of the importing
file. That would suggest to me that top-level tasks in the imported file
would get executed *after* the top-level tasks in the importing file.

For instance:

Importing.xml:
<project name="importing" default="noop">
  <import file="imported.xml"/>
  <echo>Importing</echo>
  <target name="noop" />
</project>

Imported.xml:
<project name="imported" default="noop2">
  <echo>Imported</echo>
  <target name="noop2" />
</project>


I would *expect* (but not desire) the result to be:
Importing
Imported

In fact, the result is:
Imported
Importing

That's absolutely what I want, in fact - because the files I want to
import will be defining tasks, setting properties etc. However, I'd
really like to know that the behaviour is going to stay the same, *and*
in what way "imports are imported to the tail".

On a side-note - it's nice to be back on the list :)

Jon


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Re: Importing files - at the end of the file or not?

[Steve Loughran <st...@apache.org>]

Jon Skeet wrote:
> I'm trying to update our build procedures using some of the guidelines
> in
> http://www.1060.org/blogxter/resources/5/ant-1.7.pdf
>  
> They claim that an imported file is added to the *end* of the importing
> file. That would suggest to me that top-level tasks in the imported file
> would get executed *after* the top-level tasks in the importing file.

I was wrong. I found out I was wrong last week. I will go back and 
change the document.

In Ant1.6.0 the imports where tacked in at the end, but somewhere 
between then and ant1.6.5 imports were fixed to go in inline.

Sorry jon.

Note also that that doc is about ant1.7. Some bits of it are untrue 
w.r.t Ant1.6 :)
> 
> I would *expect* (but not desire) the result to be:
> Importing
> Imported
> 
> In fact, the result is:
> Imported
> Importing
> 
> That's absolutely what I want, in fact - because the files I want to
> import will be defining tasks, setting properties etc. However, I'd
> really like to know that the behaviour is going to stay the same, *and*
> in what way "imports are imported to the tail".

Imports are now imported where they are.


> On a side-note - it's nice to be back on the list :)

welcome back. I believe you still have write access to the -now SVN- 
repository.

-stegve

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