[GROOVY-2900] Allow Ant targets declaration by AntBuilder without immediate execution.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.6-beta-1
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.0-beta-1
• Component/s: Ant integration
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Sergey Bondarenko
• Created: 13/Jun/08 03:43
• Updated: 11/Jun/14 14:25
• Resolved: 11/Jun/14 12:21

Description

Currently it is not possible to use AntBuilder to declare targets without invoking them.
When antBuilder.target(..)

{...}

is invoked, the target is executed immediately.
This also makes difficult to declare targets complex with dependencies.

It would be great if antBuilder.target

{..}

only created target without invoking it.
Then it would be possible to invoke target after all configuration is done.