Save the Ant properties to a file

• echo_all_properties: Saves all defined Java properties to the following file:

  ${outgen.job.dir}/ant-all[<time>].properties

• echo_outgen _properties: Saves to a file the Java properties that correspond to the following pattern:
  • hostname
  • outgen.*
  • env.*
  The properties are saved to the following file:

  ${outgen.job.dir}/<outputfile>.ant-outgen[<time>].properties

To save the Ant properties, add one of the target above in your client conductor file. For example, if you want to export all defined Java properties when you export the DITA files for a project, you could call the echo_all_properties Ant target in the export target, as follows:

<target name="export">
   <!-- Copy source files to output directory -->
   <copy todir="${outputdir}">
      <fileset dir="${temp}${file.separator}${path}">
         <exclude name="out"/>
      </fileset>
   </copy>
   <antcall target="echo_all_properties"/>
</target>

The following code shows an excerpt from a sample properties file:

#Ant properties
#Tue Dec 16 09:40:48 EST 2014
DSTAMP=20141216
TODAY=December 16 2014
TSTAMP=0940
ant.core.lib=C\:\\ixiasoft\\OutputGenerators\\Prod\\libs\\ant\\ant.jar
ant.file=C\:\\ixiasoft\\OutputGenerators\\Prod\\data\\conductor-ot.xml
ant.file.commontargets=C\:\\ixiasoft\\OutputGenerators\\Prod\\data\\commontargets.xml
ant.file.commontargets-macros=C\:\\ixiasoft\\OutputGenerators\\Prod\\data\\commontargets-macros.xml
ant.file.commontargets-system=C\:\\ixiasoft\\OutputGenerators\\Prod\\data\\commontargets-system.xml
ant.file.conductor-ot=C\:\\ixiasoft\\OutputGenerators\\Prod\\data\\conductor-ot.xm
...

You can call these targets more than once in the transformation scenario, since a new file (with a timestamp) is created each time you call the target. This can be useful when debugging your transformation scenario, for example, to determine when a specific property is set.