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Ant Task "Target" field too short, how can i pass more variables?

Tomas Buzga

I am using capability variables to set various paths and executables used during build process.
The reason for that is, these paths and executables can be different (different paths) on each agent, and using capabilities seemed to be a convenient way.

The problem is that the Ant Task "Target" field is rather limited in character length and its content gets clipped, so i am unable to pass all needed variables to Ant.

Is there other way of passing Bamboo variables to Ant?

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Tomas Buzga

There is a task plugin "Marvelution Bamboo Variables Stamper".
It saves Bamboo variables into a file, so they can be used by other tasks.

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Radu Dumitriu

Using the following tecnique may help:

ant deploy -Dbuild.host=X

... and in your ant ...

<span class="tag"><condition</span><span class="atn">property</span><span class="pun">=</span><span class="atv">"build.host.propfile"</span><span class="atn">value</span><span class="pun">=</span><span class="atv">"Y-host.properties"</span><span class="tag">></span><span class="pln"><equals</span><span class="atn">arg1</span><span class="pun">=</span><span class="atv">"build.host"</span><span class="atn">arg2</span><span class="pun">=</span><span class="atv">"Y"</span><span class="tag">/></span><span class="tag"></condition></span>

<property file="${<span class="atv">build.host.propfile</span>}"/>

<span class="tag"><condition</span><span class="atn">property</span><span class="pun">=</span><span class="atv">"build.host.propfile"</span><span class="atn">value</span><span class="pun">=</span><span class="atv">"X-host.properties"</span><span class="tag">></span><span class="pln"><equals</span><span class="atn">arg1</span><span class="pun">=</span><span class="atv">"build.host"</span><span class="atn">arg2</span><span class="pun">=</span><span class="atv">"X"</span><span class="tag">/></span><span class="tag"></condition><br></span>

Tomas Buzga

You mean to put "ant deploy -Dbuild.host=X" into the Ant Task "target" field?

Thats exactly what i am doing and it doesnt work, because the "target" field has limited length, so i cannot put ALL needed variables into it - the resulting string is just too long and gets clipped.

So i am asking if there is some other way to pass Bamboo variables to Ant

Tomas Buzga

Thank you, this will of course work, but if i would have to use propfiles, then i would just place appropriate propfile on each agent and be done with it.

Isn't there any other way, without the need of having propfiles with predetermined content?
I like the idea of using variables, which can be set differently for each agent, and the setting can be done via Bamboo administration instead of editing files on each agent.

Radu Dumitriu

You do not need to use prop files. You can modify it to directly set up properties using conditional targets, for instance. Or use the http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/ to create the <if>

Tomas Buzga

There is a task plugin "Marvelution Bamboo Variables Stamper".
It saves Bamboo variables into a file, so they can be used by other tasks.

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