| valid characters for target names | valid characters for target names 2005-06-10 - By Mark Lybarger
hyphens work quite well for target names. I would guess underscores will
also work. one trick to having a target that you don't want to be called
directly is to name it with double hyphens. for example:
<target name="--dont.call.me">
</target>
<target name="call.me" depends="--dont.call.me">
</target>
i hadn't though about quoting the argument, but the shell doesn't like to
run :
ant -f build.xml --dont.call.me
On 6/9/05, ralapa@(protected) <ralapa@(protected)> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Could someone please clarify what is a valid characters for
> a target name?
>
> I have been using spaces in the target names, e.g. "install server",
> because it is more readable, and since I only invoke ant through
> my IDE (IntelliJ) I don't care that spaces make it harder to use on
> the commandline.
>
> But I was reading the ant manual, and it seemed to say that the
> target names should only be alphanumeric. That seems extreme
> to me. Does that mean you can't use space, hypen, or underscore?
>
> Thanks,
> -Alex
>
>
> "A target name can be any alphanumeric string valid in the encoding of the
> XML file. The empty string "" is in this set, as is comma "," and space " ".
> Please avoid using these, as they will not be supported in future Ant
> versions because of all the confusion they cause. IDE support of unusual
> target names, or any target name containing spaces, varies with the IDE."
>
> http://ant.apache.org/manual/using.html#targets
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