Re: [NAnt-users] Input prompting ...

[Parrish, K. <KPa...@go...>]

Mike,

This looks like it will work just fine.  I have a custom Nant extensions project and will add this in that DLL.

Thanks,

Ken Parrish
Gomez, Inc.

From: Michael Pento [mailto:mp...@me...] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 12:52 PM
To: Parrish, Ken; nan...@li...
Subject: RE: [NAnt-users] Input prompting ...

Good Afternoon Folks,

I was just playing around with this and I was able to do it with a C# script function in a target:

<target name="getUserInput">
       <script language="C#" prefix="build">
            <code><![CDATA[
                        [Function("getInput")]
                        public static string getInput()
                        {
                                    Console.WriteLine("Enter a string: ");
                                    string s = Console.ReadLine();
                                                                                                                        
                                    return s.ToString();
                        }
            ]]></code>
            </script>
                        
            <property name="_str" value="${build::getInput()}" />
            <echo message="----> Input String: ${_str}" />
</target>

Executing this on my machine produces the following output:

C:\>nant -f:test.build getUserInput
NAnt 0.86 (Build 0.86.2898.0; beta1; 12/8/2007)
Copyright (C) 2001-2007 Gerry Shaw
http://nant.sourceforge.net

Buildfile: file:///C:/test.build
Target framework: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
Target(s) specified: getUserInput

[loadtasks] Scanning assembly "NAnt.Contrib.Tasks" for extensions.
[loadtasks] Scanning assembly "broloco.NAntTasks" for extensions.
   [script] Scanning assembly "cb5myvqk" for extensions.

getUserInput:

   [script] Scanning assembly "vohtvvkh" for extensions.
Enter a string:
This is a test string!!
     [echo] ----> Input String: This is a test string!!

BUILD SUCCEEDED

Total time: 8.4 seconds.

This stores the input into a property and you can do whatever you like with it after that.

I hope this helps,
Mike

________________________________________
From: Parrish, Ken [mailto:KPa...@go...] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:34 AM
To: nan...@li...
Subject: [NAnt-users] Input prompting ...

Nant Users,

Is there a task that can be used to prompt a user for input of a property?  I'd like to design some tasks which will prompt the user for input of a property if the property was not specified on the command line.  I looked in both Nant and NantContrib and didn't see anything.  Am I missing something?

Ken Parrish
Gomez, Inc.