Question

Is there an ant command which lists all targets in a file and there depends?

Right now I just use a little power shell script to match lines that contain <target but its not really a good solution. Is there any sort of built in command?

Answer 1

The closest is ant -p (or ant -p -v to get more information). This won’t list the target dependencies, but I don’t see it as a problem: dependencies are not important for the end user (they just tell how the target works).

What’s important is what the target does, which is what should be in its description:

<target name="foo" depends="bar" description="Does the foo operation">
    ...
</target>

I what you really want is the target dependencies, then reading the xml file is the best you can do.