Ant start target after

Question

In my ant script, I have target, which zipped a project. How can I start another target after this target finished?

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

Let's assume the target you have is zip-project and the next target you want to execute is next-target-for-something

One way of doing this is using antcall

 <target name="zip-project">
     <!-- Your Zipping Task-->
     <antcall target="next-target-for-something"/>
 </target>

Remember antcall can be invoked inside a target only

Another way of doing this is using depends You would have something like:

<target name="zip-project" >
     <!-- Your Zipping Task-->
</target>

Now define the next task as

<target name="next-target-for-something" depends="zip-project" >
     <!-- Your Next Task-->
</target>

though this works in opposite manner of what you would have asked. So you need to call the ant like...

ant -buildfile <build.xml> next-target-for-something

and it will make sure that first zip-project is completed and then next-target-for-something will be executed.

Hope this helps!!

Answer 2

You can use depencencies to achive this. Here is an example:

<target name="nextstep" depends="target">
[Do what ever ...]
</target>

This will run after target has been finished if you run "ant nextstep".