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| <h2><a name="echo">Echo</a></h2> |
| <h3>Description</h3> |
| <p>Echoes a message to the current loggers and listeners which |
| means <tt>System.out</tt> unless overridden. A <tt>level</tt> |
| can be specified, which controls at what logging level the message is |
| filtered at. |
| <p> |
| The task can also echo to a file, in which case the option to append rather |
| than overwrite the file is available, and the <tt>level</tt> option is |
| ignored</p> |
| <h3>Parameters</h3> |
| <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td> |
| <td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">message</td> |
| <td valign="top">the message to echo.</td> |
| <td valign="top" align="center">No. Text may also be included in a |
| character section within this element. If neither is included a |
| blank line will be emitted in the output.</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">file</td> |
| <td valign="top">the file to write the message to.</td> |
| <td valign="top" align="center">No</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">append</td> |
| <td valign="top">Append to an existing file (or |
| <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/FileWriter.html#FileWriter(java.lang.String, boolean)" target="_blank"> |
| open a new file / overwrite an existing file</a>)? |
| </td> |
| <td valign="top" align="center">No - default is false.</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">level</td> |
| <td valign="top">Control the level at which this message is reported. |
| One of "error", "warning", "info", "verbose", "debug" (decreasing order)</td> |
| <td valign="top" align="center">No - default is "warning".</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">encoding</td> |
| <td valign="top">encoding to use, default is ""; the local system encoding. <em>since Ant 1.7</em></td> |
| <td valign="top" align="center">No</td> |
| </tr> |
| </table> |
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| <h3>Examples</h3> |
| <pre> |
| <echo message="Hello, world"/> |
| </pre> |
| <pre> |
| <echo message="Embed a line break:${line.separator}"/> |
| </pre> |
| <pre> |
| <echo>Embed another:${line.separator}</echo> |
| </pre> |
| <pre> |
| <echo>This is a longer message stretching over |
| two lines. |
| </echo> |
| </pre> |
| <pre> |
| <echo> |
| This is a longer message stretching over |
| three lines; the first line is a blank |
| </echo> |
| </pre> |
| The newline immediately following the <echo> tag will be part of the output.<br> |
| Newlines in character data within the content of an element are not discarded by XML parsers.<br> |
| See <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#sec-line-ends"> |
| W3C Recommendation 04 February 2004 / End of Line handling |
| </a> for more details. |
| |
| <pre><echo message="Deleting drive C:" level="debug"/></pre> |
| A message which only appears in <tt>-debug</tt> mode. |
| <pre><echo level="error"> |
| Imminent failure in the antimatter containment facility. |
| Please withdraw to safe location at least 50km away. |
| </echo> |
| </pre> |
| A message which appears even in <tt>-quiet</tt> mode. |
| |
| <pre><echo file="runner.csh" append="false">#\!/bin/tcsh |
| java-1.3.1 -mx1024m ${project.entrypoint} $$* |
| </echo></pre> |
| Generate a shell script by echoing to a file. |
| Note the use of a double $ symbol to stop Ant |
| filtering out the single $ during variable expansion |
| |
| <p>Depending on the loglevel Ant runs, messages are print out or silently |
| ignored: |
| <table> |
| <tr> |
| <th>Ant-Statement</th> |
| <th>-quiet, -q</th> |
| <th><i>no statement</th> |
| <th>-verbose, -v</th> |
| <th>-debug, -d</th> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td><pre><echo message="This is error message." level="error" /></pre></td> |
| <td align="center">ok</td> |
| <td align="center">ok</td> |
| <td align="center">ok</td> |
| <td align="center">ok</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td><pre><echo message="This is warning message." /></pre></td> |
| <td align="center">ok</td> |
| <td align="center">ok</td> |
| <td align="center">ok</td> |
| <td align="center">ok</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td><pre><echo message="This is warning message." level="warning" /></pre></td> |
| <td align="center">ok</td> |
| <td align="center">ok</td> |
| <td align="center">ok</td> |
| <td align="center">ok</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td><pre><echo message="This is info message." level="info" /></pre></td> |
| <td align="center">not logged</td> |
| <td align="center">ok</td> |
| <td align="center">ok</td> |
| <td align="center">ok</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td><pre><echo message="This is verbose message." level="verbose" /></pre></td> |
| <td align="center">not logged</td> |
| <td align="center">not logged</td> |
| <td align="center">ok</td> |
| <td align="center">ok</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td><pre><echo message="This is debug message." level="debug" /></pre></td> |
| <td align="center">not logged</td> |
| <td align="center">not logged</td> |
| <td align="center">not logged</td> |
| <td align="center">ok</td> |
| </tr> |
| </table> |
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