RE: [nant-dev] 2 small changes to consider

[Randy R. <reg...@pr...>]

Our group approached this problem by adding capability to the nant task that
allowed a nested nant call to set values for properties that were then
available to the calling client. When tests fail for some project, we add
the name of the project to the property, which then gets displayed at the
end of the build, such as:

"Tests failed in projects: x, y." or
"Built projects: a, b, c."

Randy


-----Original Message-----
From: nan...@li...
[mailto:nan...@li...] On Behalf Of Martin
Aliger
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 9:20 AM
To: Nicklas Norling; 'Gert Driesen'; nan...@li...
Subject: Re: [nant-dev] 2 small changes to consider

Hello

> > > 1) Multiple files: Added a project level variable called 
> > > nant.project.failure, such that a you can allow a task or
> > group of tasks
> > > to complete regardless of failure using failonerror=false, and 
> > > then afterwards check the value of nant.project.failure to 
> > > determine if a failure occurred. Very useful for batch nunit 
> > > tests, and gathering a report of the tests before checking if a 
> > > failure occurred
> > and throwing a
> > > fail.

> This points out a gap in nant as I see it. What Jeff has made a patch 
> for is actually a pretty large gap in functionality in nant.
> Controlling the flow using failure detection and also log that neatly 
> for other tools to pick up (CCNet comes to mind) is challenging to say 
> the least.

Agree. And one global property is not general solution. It is just the flag
- it didnt say why it failed, how many tasks failed, etc.

The same matter I tried to solve with inter-task communication I presented
some time ago. So you could give task failonerror=false and then check
resulting "output" from task what is done, what fails etc etc.

<trycatch> task is another possibility. Maybe they could exists both and
catch block could get "output" from failed task to examine why it fails.

Regards,
Martin



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