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<h2><a name="fail">Fail</a></h2>
<h3>Description</h3>
<p>Exits the current build (just throwing a BuildException), optionally printing additional information.</p>
<p>The message of the Exception can be set via the message attribute
or character data nested into the element.</p>
<h3>Parameters</h3>
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    <td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
    <td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
    <td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
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    <td valign="top">message</td>
    <td valign="top">A message giving further information on why the build exited</td>
    <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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    <td valign="top">if</td>
    <td valign="top">Only fail if a property of the given name exists
      in the current project</td>
    <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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    <td valign="top">unless</td>
    <td valign="top">Only fail if a property of the given name doesn't
      exist in the current project</td>
    <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<h3>Examples</h3>
<pre>  &lt;fail/&gt;</pre>
<p>will exit the current build with no further information given.</p>
<pre>
BUILD FAILED

build.xml:4: No message
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<pre>  &lt;fail message=&quot;Something wrong here.&quot;/&gt;</pre>
<p>will exit the current build and print something like the following to wherever
your output goes:</p>
<pre>
BUILD FAILED

build.xml:4: Something wrong here.
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<pre>  &lt;fail&gt;Something wrong here.&lt;/fail&gt;</pre>
<p>will give the same result as above.</p>

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