Ant example source code file (echo.xml)

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Java - Ant tags/keywords

appended, appended, did, echo, of, output, simple, simple, this, utf-16, utf16, utf16, utf8, utf8

The echo.xml source code

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<project name="echo-test" basedir="." default="test1">

  <property name="dest.dir" location="echo.dest"/>

  <target name="init">
    <mkdir dir="${dest.dir}" />
  </target>

  <target name="clean">
    <delete dir="${dest.dir}"/>
  </target>

  <target name="test1">
    <echo/>
  </target>

  <target name="test2">
    <echo message="OUTPUT OF ECHO"/>
  </target>

  <target name="test3">
    <echo>
    This 
    is
    a 
    multiline
    message
    </echo>
  </target>

  <macrodef name="assertContains">
    <attribute name="expected" />
    <attribute name="actual" />
    <sequential>
      <fail>
        <condition>
          <not>
            <contains string="@{actual}" substring="@{expected}">
          </not>
        </condition>
        Did not find @{expected} in @{actual}
      </fail>
    </sequential>
  </macrodef>

  <target name="testFile" depends="init">
    <echo file="${dest.dir}/echo.txt">Simple text
    <loadfile srcfile="${dest.dir}/echo.txt" property="echo" />
    <assertContains actual="${echo}" expected="Simple text" />
  </target>


  <target name="testAppend" depends="init">
    <echo file="${dest.dir}/echo.txt">Simple text
    <echo file="${dest.dir}/echo.txt" append="true">Appended
    <loadfile srcfile="${dest.dir}/echo.txt" property="echo"/>
    <assertContains actual="${echo}" expected="Simple text"/>
    <assertContains actual="${echo}" expected="Appended"/>
  </target>

  <target name="testEmptyEncoding" depends="init">
    <echo file="${dest.dir}/echo.txt" encoding="">Simple text
    <loadfile srcfile="${dest.dir}/echo.txt" property="echo"/>
    <assertContains actual="${echo}" expected="Simple text"/>
  </target>

  <target name="testUTF16Encoding" depends="init">
    <property name="char" value="©" />
    <echo file="${dest.dir}/echo16.txt" encoding="UTF-16">${char}
    <loadfile srcfile="${dest.dir}/echo16.txt" property="echo16" encoding="UTF16"/>
    <assertContains actual="${echo16}" expected="${char}"/>
  </target>
  
  <target name="testUTF8Encoding" depends="init">
    <property name="char" value="©" />
    <echo file="${dest.dir}/echo8.txt" encoding="UTF8">${char}
    <loadfile srcfile="${dest.dir}/echo8.txt" property="echo" encoding="UTF8"/>
    <assertContains actual="${echo}" expected="${char}"/>
  </target>


</project>