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Asked: 2026-05-24T16:37:00+00:00

Is there a possibility to literally override a target or emulate this somehow? So,

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Is there a possibility to literally override a target or emulate this somehow?

So, when I call

<target perform-after="release">
     <do-something />
</target>

It will act like this:

<target name="release">
     <antcall target="release" /> <!-- call previous version, not recursion -->
     <do-something /> 
</target>

I think it has a meaning, I’ll describe on Android example:

We have an .xml templates for every build.xml in SDK folder ({$SDK}/tools/ant/*.xml), these files are included in every generated build.xml for each project. There are only -pre-compile, -pre-build and -post-compile targets that empty and easy to override. But there is no empty -post-release target, for example. Google recommends in generated build.xml comments just to copy-paste a target to my own build.xml and then tune it. But I think it is not ok, because if Google will change something in this target inside a template, I will never know about I am using outdated version.

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  1. Editorial Team

    See the “Target overriding” section of the import task or the “Target rewriting” section of the include task. In short, give the common build.xml a project name like “common”, and then use “common.release” in the antcall.

    I’ll note that antcall isn’t quite the same since it starts a new project at runtime, which means variables set by the target won’t be visible later. I don’t have Ant available on this machine to test, but you might try something like this to avoid the antcall:

    <target name="release" depends="common.release, -post-release"/>
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