JON Bundle Deployer Tool runs in an infinite loop when calling another target with antcall

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Environment

  • JBoss Operations Network (JON) 2.4.0
  • JBoss Operations Network Bundle Deployer Tool
  • Deploy.xml file containing: 
    <?xml version="1.0"?>

<project name="example.com-website" default="main" 
         xmlns:rhq="antlib:org.rhq.bundle">    
   <!-- Set global properties for this build -->
   <!--   <property environment="env"/>     -->
   <!--   <property file="install.properties"/> -->

   <rhq:bundle name="Call Ant Task" version="1.0" description="Call Ant Task">
        <rhq:deployment-unit name="JEE Application Guessv1" preinstallTarget="chk_platform" postinstallTarget="install_appservers" >
            <rhq:archive name="guessv1.zip">
            </rhq:archive>
        </rhq:deployment-unit>
 
    </rhq:bundle>

    <target name="main"/>

    <target name="chk_platform">
    <property name="preinstallTargetExecuted" value="true"/>
    <echo message="Doing preinstall task...." />
    </target>
    
  <target name="install_appservers">
  <property name="postinstallTargetExecuted" value="true"/>
  <echo message="Doing postintall task..."/>
  <antcall target="doSomethingElse">
      <param name="param1" value="value"/>
  </antcall>
</target>

<target name="doSomethingElse">
  <echo message="param1=${param1}"/>
</target>
</project>

Issue

  • I'm working with the JON Bundle Deployer Tool and attempting to use "antcall" within the deploy.xml for calling a target defined within the deploy.xml.
  • The bundle is deployed, but the Bundle Deployer Tool goes into an infinite loop.

Resolution

  • This has been logged as a bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676703.   The workaround is rather than use <antcall> to call a target within the same deploy.xml, use <ant> and put your custom targets in a separate build file.  For example:

  • In the deploy.xml, use this as part of the deployment-unit task:

<rhq:deployment-unit name="jar" postinstallTarget="useAntCall">
  • The "useAntCall" target looks like this within deploy.xml:
<target name="useAntCall">
  <ant antfile="another.xml" target="doSomething">
    <property name="param1" value="111"></property>
   </ant>
</target>
  • Now create a separate "another.xml" file - it sits next to the deploy.xml file (i.e. its in the same directory as deploy.xml). another.xml looks like:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
   <project name="another" default="main">
       <target name="doSomething">
          <echo>inside doSomething. param1=${param1}</echo>
   </target>
</project>

Root Cause

The problem is that <antcall> invokes the same build file (it seems to reprocess the tasks that appear outside of a <target> - and because JON has a customized <bundle> task, it gets re-invoked and does its thing (again) which ends up going in an infinite loop.

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