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<h1 class="topictitle1">captureBuildMessages</h1>
<div><p>This task captures Ant build messages and allows them to be searched
or displayed, and allows conditional Ant build failures depending on whether
or not a specified string is in the captured build messages.</p>
<div class="section"><p><span class="uicontrol">Parameters</span></p>
<div class="tablenoborder"><table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="" frame="border" border="1" rules="all"><thead align="left"><tr><th valign="top" width="21.052631578947366%" id="d0e20">Attribute</th>
<th valign="top" width="56.84210526315789%" id="d0e22">Description</th>
<th align="left" valign="top" width="22.105263157894736%" id="d0e24">Required</th>
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<tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="21.052631578947366%" headers="d0e20 ">action </td>
<td valign="top" width="56.84210526315789%" headers="d0e22 ">The capturing action to be performed</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="22.105263157894736%" headers="d0e24 ">Yes. May be one of the following: <ul><li><em>start</em></li>
<li><em>stop</em></li>
<li><em>getAllMessages</em></li>
<li><em>findMessage</em></li>
<li><em>FailOnErrorMessagePresent</em></li>
<li><em>FailOnErrorMessageMissing</em></li>
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<tr><td valign="top" width="21.052631578947366%" headers="d0e20 ">MessageLevel</td>
<td valign="top" width="56.84210526315789%" headers="d0e22 ">The level of Ant build messages to capture</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="22.105263157894736%" headers="d0e24 ">No, default is <em>Information</em>. May be <em>error</em>, <em>warning</em>, <em>information</em>, <em>debug</em>,
or <em>verbose</em>.</td>
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<tr><td valign="top" width="21.052631578947366%" headers="d0e20 ">SearchString</td>
<td valign="top" width="56.84210526315789%" headers="d0e22 ">A string to be searched for (only valid for <em>findMessage</em> or <em>FailOnErrorMessagePresent</em> or <em>FailOnErrorMessageMissing</em>)</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="22.105263157894736%" headers="d0e24 ">Yes (for search actions)</td>
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<tr><td valign="top" width="21.052631578947366%" headers="d0e20 ">PropertyMessagesName</td>
<td valign="top" width="56.84210526315789%" headers="d0e22 ">Property to receive Get/Search action Message result</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="22.105263157894736%" headers="d0e24 ">No, default is <em>BuildMessages</em></td>
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<tr><td valign="top" width="21.052631578947366%" headers="d0e20 ">ErrorPrefixMessage</td>
<td valign="top" width="56.84210526315789%" headers="d0e22 ">A string prefix to be output before any FailOnError
failure message</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="22.105263157894736%" headers="d0e24 ">No</td>
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<p><span class="uicontrol">Examples</span></p>
<ul><li>Perform a projectBuild and display the build messages:<pre>&lt;captureBuildMessages action="start"
messagelevel="information" /&gt;
&lt;projectBuild  ProjectName="myProject" /&gt;
&lt;captureBuildMessages action="stop" /&gt;
&lt;captureBuildMessages action="getAllMessages"
propertymessagesname="BuildMessages" /&gt;
&lt;echo message="projectBuild:
build messages=${BuildMessages}" /&gt;</pre>
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<li>Search the previous build messages for a target string, and then fail
if an error string is present:<pre>&lt;captureBuildMessages action="findMessage"
searchstring="${TargetSearchString}"
propertymessagesname="FoundMessages" /&gt;
&lt;echo message="projectBuild: search found
target messages=${FoundMessages}" /&gt;
&lt;captureBuildMessages action="failOnErrorMessagePresent"
searchstring="${ErrorMessageString}" /&gt;</pre>
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