How do I need to set up my project to debug an Ant task?

You can right-click the file and choose "Add as Ant build file" or see the Ant
toolwindow on the right side of your screen.

Dirk Dittert wrote:

I am currently developing an ant task in IDEA. How do I set up my project so that I can run the task from IDEA's ant panel and debug the code?

Sorry, I think my descriptin above is misleading.

I want to run the Ant task from IDEA and then debug the source code of the task itself.

There's no jvm args field in the Ant panel to specify debug parameters, so I suggest the following.

1. Ensure that the "ant-launcher.jar" from an ant's distribution (for example from idea-home/lib/ant/lib) is in classpath of your
project.
2. Create the "Application" run configuration with the following settings:
- Main Class=org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher
- VM Parameters=-Dant.home=<home-dir-of-your-ant-distribution>
- Program Parameters=-f <path-to-your-buildfile>

3. Now you can run/debug the Ant directly from IDEA.

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"Dirk Dittert" <no_mail@jetbrains.com> wrote in message news:26549703.1131022086492.JavaMail.itn@is.intellij.net...
>I am currently developing an ant task in IDEA. How do I set up my project so that I can run the task from IDEA's ant panel and
>debug the code?

i posted earlier asking if i could pass jvm args to ant,
guess the answer is NO
would jetbrains consider to add this feature?
best regards,
parthi

Thanks for you description.

I didn't get it to work with the IDEA internal Ant (probably set the ant.home wrong) but it now works with a separate Ant 1.6.5 installation.

Best,

Dirk Dittert

Sure. Please submit the issue to JIRA.

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"parthi" <no_mail@jetbrains.com> wrote in message news:11457836.1131361048268.JavaMail.itn@is.intellij.net...
>i posted earlier asking if i could pass jvm args to ant,

guess the answer is NO
would jetbrains consider to add this feature?
best regards,
parthi

Done

http://www.jetbrains.net/jira/browse/IDEA-5719

thanks for your help

best regards,
parthi

Hello there,
any idea when this will be implemented?
hopefully this does not require much of a work

thanks for your help

cheers,
parthi

It's planned for Demetra.

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Eugene Zhuravlev
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JetBrains Inc.
http://www.jetbrains.com
"Develop with pleasure!"

"parthi" <no_mail@jetbrains.com> wrote in message news:26279336.1135067773768.JavaMail.itn@is.intellij.net...

Hello there,
any idea when this will be implemented?
hopefully this does not require much of a work

>

thanks for your help

>

cheers,
parthi