[PATCH] Task to time parts of the build

["Summerwill, Bob" <BS...@europe.ea.com>]

I originally sent this mail last Thursday, but it seems to have got lost
somewhere along the way ...


-----Original Message-----
From: Summerwill, Bob [mailto:BSummerwill@europe.ea.com]
Sent: 27 September 2001 18:23
To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: Task to time parts of the build


I've written a task called "Timed" which can be used to time parts of the
build.  This is a trivial subclass of Sequential.  I've written this as
a new core task, though maybe it should be an optional task.

I attach the .java source file and HTML documentation.  As well as the
new files, there are these one-liners ...

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docs/manual/coretasklist.html
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<a href="CoreTasks/timed.html">Timed</a><br>
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src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/defaults.properties
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timed=org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Timed
---------------------------------------------------------------


Cheers,
Bob Summerwill
Electronic Arts UK


PS.  Sorry they're not diffs - I'm behind a firewall, and CVS access to
the Ant server is blocked at the moment.


-----Original Message-----
From: Summerwill, Bob [mailto:BSummerwill@europe.ea.com]
Sent: 27 September 2001 14:57
To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: RE: Timing parts of the build.



I've written a new task to implement this, called Timed.  This is a
trivial subclass of Sequential.  I've written this as a new core task,
though maybe it should be optional.

How should I submit this task to the project?  There's a new .java file,
the matching HTML documentation, and modifications to coretasklist.html
and default.properties.  Should I just send a [PATCH] e-mail to
the ant-dev mailing list, containing the new code inline, with diffs
for the changed files, and a brief explanation?


Cheers,
Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:jakarta-ant@ehatchersolutions.com]
Sent: 10 September 2001 13:24
To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: Re: Timing parts of the build.


You could create a task similar to Sequential that implements TaskContainer
and have it do this pretty easily.   It would give you the capability of
timing tasks all within a target, not across targets.  Actually it might be
cleaner to just patch Sequential.java to do it automatically and avoid two
"sequential" tasks out there.    It seems like it'd only take a few lines of
code.

    Erik


----- Original Message -----
From: "Summerwill, Bob" <BS...@europe.ea.com>
To: <an...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 4:30 AM
Subject: Timing parts of the build.


> Has anyone got any recommendations on timing parts an Ant build?  I'd like
> to be able to place the timing for part of the build in a Ant property, so
> it can be used in XSLT transforms, etc.
>
>
> Pseudocode ....
>
>
>
> <target name="example">
>
>      <timedSection name="build.time">
>          <!-- do some part of the build, which generates a log file. -->
>      </timedSection>
>
>      <!-- Add the timing information to the build log. -->
>      <style in="buildLog.xml" out="timedBuildLog.xml"
> style="addTimingInfo.xsl">
>          <param name="howLongItTook" value="${build.time}"/>
>      </style>
>
> </target>
>
>
> Is timing information available?  Is there a simple way to do something
> similar?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Bob
>