[JM.Gaston]

How do you setup an input console for Ant ?
for ex:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="helloproject" default="hello">
    <target name="hello" >
        <echo message="Hello !" />
        <input addproperty="hello.name" 
            message="Enter your name: " defaultvalue="world" />
        <echo message="Hello ${hello.name}!" />
    </target>
</project>

When I check “Set an Input Handler” in the external tools Wizzard,
I get a NullPointerException, and when I don’t, the console does
not pause for input and I get a “Failed to read input from console”
error.

I am sorry to ask for something so basic, but I could not find info
anywhere (other than a statement that “It works” in an unrelated
Eclipse bug report: good to know)

Regards,

JG

[Riyad Kalla]

Moving to OT > Soft Dev

JG, I did run across this post:
http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.technology/msg00887.html

and it looks like if you set the Ant task to run inside the same JRE as Eclipse, you’ll get a provided inputhandler. Otherwise you need to use -inputhandler to specify your own. (Not done this myself, so not exactly sur eon details).

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