[GRADLE-1571] Ant target that depends on Gradle task breaks if Ant target includes <antcall>. Created: 23/May/11  Updated: 06/Feb/17  Resolved: 06/Feb/17

Status: Resolved
Project: Gradle
Affects Version/s: 0.9.2
Fix Version/s: None

Type: Bug
Reporter: Mark Jeffcoat Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Duplicate Votes: 6


 Description   

This is a slight modification to Example 17.11, Ant target that depends on Gradle task, from the user manual:

build.gradle

ant.importBuild 'build.xml'

task intro << {
    println 'Hello, from Gradle'
}

build.xml

<project>

    <!-- New target: -->
    <target name="indirect">
    </target>    

    <target name="hello" depends="intro">
        <echo>Hello, from Ant</echo>
        <antcall target="indirect" />
    </target>
</project>

Output of gradle hello


:intro
Hello, from Gradle
:hello
[ant:echo] Hello, from Ant

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file '/home/jeffcoat/projects/WLE75-1/src/sample/build.gradle'

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':hello'.
Cause: Target "intro" does not exist in the project "wle". It is used from target "hello".

* Try:
Run with -s or -d option to get more details. Run with -S option to get the full (very verbose) stacktrace.

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 2.541 secs



 Comments   
Comment by Mark Jeffcoat [ 23/May/11 ]

Also tested on 1.0-milestone-3 with the same result.

Comment by Scott Resnik [ 09/Mar/16 ]

antcall also breaks any task dependencies added in the gradle build that imported the ant build.

build.gradle

ant.importBuild 'build.xml'

task gradleTest << {
    println 'Gradle Test!'
}

test.dependsOn gradleTest

build.xml

<project>
  <target name="indirect" depends="build,test"></target>

  <target name="doAll">
    <echo>Hello, from Ant</echo>
    <antcall target="indirect" />
  </target>

  <target name="build">
    <echo>Build!</echo>
  </target>

  <target name="test">
    <echo>Test!</echo>
  </target>
</project>

Output of gradle doAll

:doAll
[ant:echo] Hello, from Ant
[ant:echo] Build!
[ant:echo] Test!

BUILD SUCCESSFUL

Total time: 1.883 secs

Notice that the gradleTest target was not executed. Antcall effectively bypasses the gradle ant runner environment. This was with gradle 2.10.

Comment by Steffen Yount [ 03/May/16 ]

It looks like ant.importBuild() first uses the org.apache.tools.ant.ProjectHelper to parse the build file into an ant project object. Then it adds new gradle tasks and gradle task dependencies to the gradle project for all of the ant targets found in that ant project object.

The <antcall target="..."> ant tasks are not being converted into any kind of gradle aware surrogate during this ant.importBuild() process.

I suspect that as a consequence these 'antcall' tasks actually invoke the ant targets found in the otherwise defunct ant project object rather than invoking the gradle tasks found in the gradle project, and thus they escape the gradle project's context and have no ability to reference, resolve, or depend on gradle tasks in the gradle project.

Comment by Benjamin Muschko [ 15/Nov/16 ]

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Comment by Steffen Yount [ 16/Nov/16 ]

I believe this bug still presents a big hole in Gradle's Ant compatibility layer.

Comment by Benjamin Muschko [ 06/Feb/17 ]

The issue is now tracked here: https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/1341

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