getting well formed output from ant - sshexec in groovy script

Question

my problem is, that the output from the ant task alwas has some [ssh-exec] infotext at the beginning. can i suppress / disable that?

my code so far:

Answer 1

I tripped over the same issue in gradle and from there I had to change the way to access the property: According to the official gradle doc 3.3

println ant.antProp
println ant.properties.antProp
println ant.properties['antProp']

is the correct way to go.

def ant = new AntBuilder()
ant.sshexec(host: host,
            port: port,
            trust: true,
            username: username,
            password: password,
            command: 'ls',
            outputproperty: 'result')

def result = ant.properties.'result'

Hope this helps people in the same situation. Cheers

Answer 2

You can save the raw output inside an Ant property:

def ant = new AntBuilder()
ant.sshexec(host: host,
            port: port,
            trust: true,
            username: username,
            password: password,
            command: 'ls',
            outputproperty: 'result')

def result = ant.project.properties.'result'

Answer 3

the problem is that outputproperty is not working properly (it does not set the ant variable).

I often use trycatch from antcontrib to test if error occurs instead of reading return value.

Example :

<trycatch>
<try>
      <sshexec host="@{host}" failonerror="true" username="${username}" password="${password}" timeout="${ssh.timeout}" command="@{command}" usepty="@{usepty}" trust="true" />
</try>
<catch>
      <echo>Service already stopped!</echo>
</catch>
</trycatch>