Subant and inheritrefs question

Subant and inheritrefs question

Subant and inheritrefs question

2007-05-30 - By Eric Wood

I have a question about how this should work. I have an outer wrapper
script that executes a subant as follows:

Wrapper.xml

<target name="build-application" depends="build-application-init" >
<subant target="build" inheritrefs="true" >
<propertyset refid="subant.properties" />
<filelist refid="application.build.files" />
</subant>
</target>

This in in turn executes a further subant as follows:

Ear.xml
<subant target="build" inheritrefs="true" >
<propertyset refid="subant.properties" />
<filelist dir="." id="EAR.build.files" >
<file name="util.xml" />
</filelist>
</subant>

The build target in the util.xml file is not getting the necessary
subant properties that are passed in unless I pass a propertyset as
highlighted above.
I thought that the inheritrefs="true" would pass this refernce all the
way to my build target in the util.xml file

The sequence is wrapper.xml -> ear.xml -> util.xml

How is this suppose to work. I'm sure that I have misunderstood the
functionality. I'm using ant 1.6.5

Eric

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Subant and inheritrefs question