Ant Get task Timeout issue

Question

I have a web service that returns a plain text. I am going to add timeout that if the service is not up set a property to true. How can I do that? Below is my code.

<get src="localhost:8080/order/available" dest="${propertyname}"/>

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I am getting:

get doesn't support the "maxtime" attribute

Answer 1

You can use something like this. First download to a file, then check if the file is there:

<delete file="${testfile}"/>
<get src="localhost:8080/order/available" dest="${testfile}" maxtime="5000" />
<available file="${testfile}"  property="${propertyname}" value="true"/>

EDIT: The maxtime attribute is available in ant 1.8.0 or higher as per their doc