[GROOVY-3223] Nested javac Ant task does not do property substitution on its attributes

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.6-beta-2
• Fix Version/s: 1.6.4, 1.7-beta-1
• Component/s: Ant integration
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Steve Sowerby
• Created: 19/Dec/08 09:34
• Updated: 07/Apr/15 19:12
• Resolved: 31/May/09 06:17

Description

If using groovyc with an embedded javac it is no longer possible to use Ant property substitution on the javac attributes.

For example having a call to groovyc like this:

<groovyc destdir="build" srcdir="src">
<javac source="${javac.source}" target="${javac.target}" debug="${javac.debug}" encoding="UTF-8"/>
</groovyc>

will lead to this error:

[groovyc] javac: invalid source release: ${javac.source}

This works fine with Groovy 1.5.7

I have attached a simple test case with a build.xml file which loads an external build.properties and then attempts to compile a single Java file.
To test simply edit the build.properties file to point groovy.home at a relevant Groovy installation.
Pointing it a my 1.6 b2 fails but 1.5.7 works.

I wasn't sure how to turn this into a Junit test easily though.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: GROOVY-3450 Ant properties don't work within the source / target attributes on javac Ant task within groovyc task