for statement possibilities

[EetieD]

Hi all,

I am using the 'for-statement' from Ant-Contrib. I have two questions about it:

1. Is it possible to stop within the for statement while it isn't ended yet?
2. Is it possible to use integers within a for statement?

For example:

<!-- starts for statement with number = 0, increasing 1 after each iteration -->
<for>
    <if><equals arg1="${number}" arg2="3" /><then>
        <!-- stop -->
    </then><else>
        <!-- continue -->
    </else></if>
</for>

I hope again someone can help me. Thanks!

EetieD.

[Francis Galiegue-4]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:11, EetieD <khn@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am using the 'for-statement' from Ant-Contrib. I have two questions about
> it:
>
> 1. Is it possible to stop within the for statement while it isn't ended yet?

Yes it is, with a "catch" - quite literally so:

<trycatch>
    <try>
        <for>
            <!-- whatever --->
            <!-- when condition is met to exit loop, do: -->
            <fail/>
        </for>
    </try>
    <catch>
        <!-- End of loop - catch statement possibly empty -->
    </catch>
</trycatch>

> 2. Is it possible to use integers within a for statement?
>
> For example:
>
> <!-- starts for statement with number = 0, increasing 1 after each iteration
> -->
> <for>
>    <if><equals arg1="${number}" arg2="3" /><then>
>        <!-- stop -->
>    </then><else>
>        <!-- continue -->
>    </else></if>
> </for>
>

Yessir. Use ant-contrib's <math> statement, with ant-contrib's <var>.
And use ant's <macrodef> for even more convenience. Demonstration:

----
build@build ~ $ cat t.xml
<project name="t" default="doit" basedir=".">
        <taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml"/>

        <macrodef name="inc">
                <attribute name="victim"/>
                <sequential>
                        <math result="@{victim}"
operand1="${@{victim}}" operation="+"
                                operand2="1" datatype="int"/>
                </sequential>
        </macrodef>

        <var name="t" value="1"/>

        <target name="doit">
                <inc victim="t"/>
                <echo message="${t}"/>
        </target>

</project>

build@build ~ $ ant -f t.xml
Buildfile: t.xml

doit:
     [echo] 2
----

You have to wonder why ant-contrib isn't integrated within ant yet...
Plain ant just cannot do this without <script>.

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[EetieD]

Thanks, very useful!

Francis Galiegue-4 wrote:

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:11, EetieD <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am using the 'for-statement' from Ant-Contrib. I have two questions about
> it:
>
> 1. Is it possible to stop within the for statement while it isn't ended yet?

Yes it is, with a "catch" - quite literally so:

<trycatch>
    <try>
        <for>
            <!-- whatever --->
            <!-- when condition is met to exit loop, do: -->
            <fail/>
        </for>
    </try>
    <catch>
        <!-- End of loop - catch statement possibly empty -->
    </catch>
</trycatch>


> 2. Is it possible to use integers within a for statement?
>
> For example:
>
> <!-- starts for statement with number = 0, increasing 1 after each iteration
> -->
> <for>
>    <if><equals arg1="${number}" arg2="3" /><then>
>        <!-- stop -->
>    </then><else>
>        <!-- continue -->
>    </else></if>
> </for>
>

Yessir. Use ant-contrib's <math> statement, with ant-contrib's <var>.
And use ant's <macrodef> for even more convenience. Demonstration:

----
build@build ~ $ cat t.xml
<project name="t" default="doit" basedir=".">
        <taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml"/>

        <macrodef name="inc">
                <attribute name="victim"/>
                <sequential>
                        <math result="@{victim}"
operand1="${@{victim}}" operation="+"
                                operand2="1" datatype="int"/>
                </sequential>
        </macrodef>

        <var name="t" value="1"/>

        <target name="doit">
                <inc victim="t"/>
                <echo message="${t}"/>
        </target>

</project>

build@build ~ $ ant -f t.xml
Buildfile: t.xml

doit:
     [echo] 2
----

You have to wonder why ant-contrib isn't integrated within ant yet...
Plain ant just cannot do this without <script>.

--

Francis Galiegue
ONE2TEAM
Ingénieur système
Mob : [phone]
Tel : [phone]
[e-mail]
40 avenue Raymond Poincaré
75116 Paris

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