Arguments with ANT

[Eric Farraro]

I've been looking for a way to pass arguments to ANT, but have so far
been unsuccessful. I figured out how to pass them from the command
line:

ant -buildfile -Dmyarg=abc

.... but what I'd like to do, is have an ANT script call a different
ANT script, and pass the arguments along. So far, I have not figured
out how to pass arguments to an ANT script, from within another ANT
script. What I have is something like this:

(Inside build.xml):

<ant dir="${ant.exec.directory}" antfile="${ant.script.name}"
target="main" inheritAll="true"/>

I'd like to pass any arguments to 'ant.script.name' that 'build.xml'
receives. For instance, if there was a 'parameter' attribute, I could
use something like that.

Any suggestions?

 

[Roedy Green]

... but what I'd like to do, is have an ANT script call a different
ANT script, and pass the arguments along. So far, I have not figured
out how to pass arguments to an ANT script, from within another ANT
script. What I have is something like this:

You can put things in the set environment. I put the jar signing
password in there, for example.

I get at it like this:

<!-- get _your_ password from set jarsignerpassword=sesame -->
<!-- get _your_ code-signing certificate from set
cert=mindprodcert2008dsa -->
<property environment="env" />
<signjar jar="${jar.file}"
alias="${env.cert}" storepass="${env.jarsignerpassword}" />

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

I've been looking for a way to pass arguments to ANT, but have so far
been unsuccessful. I figured out how to pass them from the command
line:

ant -buildfile -Dmyarg=abc

... but what I'd like to do, is have an ANT script call a different
ANT script, and pass the arguments along. So far, I have not figured
out how to pass arguments to an ANT script, from within another ANT
script. What I have is something like this:

(Inside build.xml):

<ant dir="${ant.exec.directory}" antfile="${ant.script.name}"
target="main" inheritAll="true"/>

I'd like to pass any arguments to 'ant.script.name' that 'build.xml'
receives. For instance, if there was a 'parameter' attribute, I could
use something like that.

inheritAll="true" will pass all existing properties.

To pass new properties use:

<ant dir="${ant.exec.directory}" antfile="${ant.script.name}"
target="main" inheritAll="true">
<property name="myarg" value="abc"/>
</ant>

Arne