Iterate over for loop with fixed amount of iterations

Question

I am using ant-contrib library in my ant scripts, but I do not get how can I make a fixed amount of loops using foreach tag? By fixed amount of iterations I do not mean some

Answer 1

ANT is not a programming language and I'm not a fan of ant-contrib, which I think attempts to retrofit this feature...

My recommendation is to embed a scripting language into your build. The advantage of javascript is that it won't require additional jars, but I think you'll discover the groovy ANT task is extremely powerful.

Example

$ ant -Dtimes=3

loop:

dosomething:
     [echo] hello world

dosomething:
     [echo] hello world

dosomething:
     [echo] hello world

build.xml

  

  
    

    
      def count = properties.times.toInteger() 

      (1..count).each {
        ant.ant(target: "dosomething")
      }
    
  

  
    
  

An extra "bootstrap" target could be added to install groovy jar dependency automatically