Conditional Task on exec failure in Ant

Question

I have some unit tests running through Ant, and I\'d like to be able to run some cleanup code if the unit tests fail. I was looking for some sort of \"finally\" block, but I

Answer 1

Two possiblities

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use some try/catch/finally construct for specific parts of your script
you need some Ant Plugin that provides those features, f.e. =

Flaka
Antcontrib / Antelope

    
     
      
     
     
      do your cleanup here
      and afterwards don't forget to fail
      
     
      optionally you may use a finally section also
     
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use a buildlistener for the whole script ( BUILD SUCCESSFUL, BUILD FAILED )

Kev Jackson has a nice example of an exec-listener in his presentation, = http://people.apache.org/~kevj/ossummit/extending-ant.html (the sources of the exec-listener are included in the slides)

You're able to kick off specific tasks depending on the build result after your build has finished

    

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