Question

I am using the ant task <record> to create a log file of the output and activity of my ant build script. The problem is:

i am not seeing the names of the targets that are being executed.

For instance: When my target called cleanFW is being executed, i only see the stuff being done inside the target and NOT the name of the target it self. Since this is happening, i have no way of telling when cleanFW began in the log file.

Is there a way to get this cleanFW target name to appear? It was appearing when i was using the flag -logfile. But i had to switch to <record> because i want to record log file and see the output in console.

Using Ant 1.8.2

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simple solution

My simple solution to this is to just put an echo in each one of the targets. Just wondering if there was a better way.

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sample code where it is not working

<project name="foobar">

<record name="test.txt" action="start" append="true" loglevel="verbose" />

... lots of property stuff here ...

    <target name="cleanFW">
        <record name="test.txtaction="start" append="true" loglevel="verbose"/>
        <mkdir dir="${FOOBAR_OUTPUT}"/>
        <mkdir dir="${FOOBAR_GEN}"/>
        <delete includeemptydirs="true"> 
            <fileset dir="${FOOBAR_BIN}" includes="**/*"/>
            <fileset dir="${FOOBAR_GENERATED}" includes="**/*"/>
            <fileset dir="${FOOBAR_NODES}" includes="**/*"/>
            <fileset dir="${FOOBAR_GEN}" includes="**/*"/>
        </delete>
        <mkdir dir="${FOOBAR_OUTPUT}"/>
        <record name="test.txt" action="stop"/>
    </target>

<record name="test.txt" action="stop"/>   

</project>

The reason why i have the first record name="test.txt" action="start" append="true" loglevel="verbose" /> at the top, is because i want all of the statements and stuff that are before the targets to be displayed too. Like my property sets and all that jazz. I left that junk out because it is not important.

Answer 1

I’m at a bit of a loss to explain why exactly, but I think you need to omit the last record ‘stop’ task – the one that is outside of a target.

Having said that, you can probably omit all of the record tasks except the first ‘start’, and get the result you want.