Re: Passing command Line args for a list

So I see in your example below some input tasks.  I'm guessing you'd 
rather not using input?

On Fri, 4 Mar 2016, Petronius wrote:

> Hello
>
> We are tyring to automate an ant task, but finding it impossible to pass a
> command line argument to a property inside a list.
>
> We need to pass Name and Description for each agent specified from the
> command line.  for ex:
> ant -f build.xml addNodes -Dagents="d01, d02, d03" -D{node???}='node1' -
> D{node_description???}='node1 description'
>
> each agent d01/d02/d03 will need have name and description.
>
> <target name="addNodes" depends="clean">
>  <input message="Agents Name Seperated By , :" addproperty="agents" />
>  <for list="${agents}" delimiter="," param="agent">
>    <sequential>
>      <input message="Node Name:" addproperty="node" />
>      <input message="Node Description:" addproperty="node_description" />
>         <exec>
>             <!-- external task -->
>         </exec>
>         <var name="node" unset="true"/>
>    </sequential>
>  </for>
> </target>
>
> Any suggestions is greatly appreciated.
>
> thanks
>
>
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