Custom ANT Task and java.util.NoSuchElementException

[Andrew Leer]

I have a custom ANT task that I have written and placed in a JAR file.

I've defined it at the top like this....

    
    <project>
       <taskdef name="XebraCodeRelate" classname="com.xebra.HTMLCodeRelate">
         <classpath>
           <pathelement location="../java/jar/XebraAntTasks.jar"/>
         </classpath>
      </taskdef>
    ...
   </project>

build.xml


But when it reaches the <XebraCodeRelate> it fails for some reason, intermittently.

     <project>
        ...
        <for list="${csvDownloadList}"
                 param="letter">
             <sequential>
                <XebraCodeRelate fileText="${file.configs.txt}" forFile="@{letter}" property="renameTo"
                                 renameFor="upload" />

        ...
     </project>

getSpecifiedHTMLConfig:
     [echo] Generating and retrieving configs.txt for html configuration: CODVAL3
   [telnet] Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma)
   [telnet] Kernel 2.4.7-10 on an i686
   [telnet] login:
   [telnet] andy_test
   [telnet]  Password:
   [telnet]
   [telnet] [andy_test
   [telnet] cd /home/andy_test/httpd/HtmlConf/
   [telnet] rm -fv configs.txt
   [telnet] cat /home/andy_test/httpd/cgi-bin/htmlCode.txt | grep CODVAL3 > configs.txt
      [ftp] getting files
      [ftp] 0 files retrieved

uploadHTML:
 [loadfile] Do not set property file.configs.txt as its length is 0.
     [echo] File Contents:
     [echo] ${file.configs.txt}
HTMLCodeRead: Init()
End: Init()
BEGIN: setMyArg
END: setMyArg
BEGIN: setProperty
END: setProperty
BEGIN: execute
target name:uploadHTML
value of property 'name'null
next token: ${file.configs.txt}
next sub token: ${file.configs.txt}
task name:XebraCodeRead
value of task parameter 'arg1' ${file.configs.txt}
END: execute
     [echo] DL List: ${file.configs.txt}
HTMLCodeRelate: Init()
End: Init()
BEGIN: setMyArg
END: setMyArg
BEGIN: execute

BUILD FAILED
C:\Custom\M11\CODVAL\dev\build.xml:258: The following error occurred while executing this line:
C:\Custom\M11\CODVAL\dev\build.xml:261: java.util.NoSuchElementException

Anybody know why this might be?

I'm using ANT version 1.7.1 compiled on June 27 2008

Thank you,
Andrew J. Leer

[Omar Al Kababji]

Are you sure that all files do exist? may be ANT can't find a specific file.

[Andrew Leer]

Yeah, I was barking up the wrong tree...It's because a telnet session I was running was "too fast" to delete a file before sending the next command (earlier in the script). I used a timeout attribute. This explains the *intermittent nature* of the problem.

When it couldn't download the file, that it needed to my "custom ant script" didn't have the input that it needed and thus I got some obscure error message that had nothing to do with the problem.

Thanks for the help anyway though!

[Omar Al Kababji]

Aaaaah internet latency sometimes it really kills me... glad you solved the problem