Overview on usage of if/unless attributes

[Holger Rauch <ho...@heitec.de>]

Hi!

I'm aware that if/unless attributes can be used to select targets depending
on whether the value of some property is set or not. Where else
(types/tasks) can if/unless be used in addition to targets?

Is there an overview on this issue in some place?

(I tried using "if" on <property> in order to set the value of a property
dependet on whether another property is set. Reason was to avoid the
rather lengthy fragments introduced by using ant-contrib's <if> task.
Didn't work, however, so I guess I'm stuck with the <if> task, right?)

That's what I tried:

<property name="prop1" value="${basedir}/.." />
<property name="prop1" value="${basedir}/../.." if="certain.prop" />

Thanks in advance for any info/pointers!

Greetings,

	Holger

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Re: Overview on usage of if/unless attributes

[Holger Rauch <ho...@heitec.de>]

Rainer, thanks for reminding me on <condition>. I forgot about it.

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RE: Overview on usage of if/unless attributes

[Rainer Noack <ra...@noacks.net>]

Hi Holger,

1st: Ant properties can not be overwritten.
2nd: To set "conditional" property-values take a look at the <condition/>
task.
3rd: if/unless are attributes of a target.

Try something like this:

<target name="set-props">
<condition property="prop1" value="${basedir}/../..">
  <isset property="certain.prop"/>
</condition>
<property name="prop1" value="${basedir}/.."/>
</target>

Cheers,

Rainer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Holger Rauch [mailto:holger.rauch@heitec.de] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 11:33 AM
> To: user@ant.apache.org
> Subject: Overview on usage of if/unless attributes
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I'm aware that if/unless attributes can be used to select 
> targets depending on whether the value of some property is 
> set or not. Where else
> (types/tasks) can if/unless be used in addition to targets?
> 
> Is there an overview on this issue in some place?
> 
> (I tried using "if" on <property> in order to set the value 
> of a property dependet on whether another property is set. 
> Reason was to avoid the rather lengthy fragments introduced 
> by using ant-contrib's <if> task. Didn't work, however, so I 
> guess I'm stuck with the <if> task, right?)
> 
> That's what I tried:
> 
> <property name="prop1" value="${basedir}/.." />
> <property name="prop1" value="${basedir}/../.." if="certain.prop" />
> 
> Thanks in advance for any info/pointers!
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> 	Holger
> 
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