From 7c3493aaa36b2c094e340c4e4a86242aad979c54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@apache.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 10:21:12 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Make <fail> support nested text.

Submitted by:	Tim Dawson <tdawson@wamnet.com>


git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@268900 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 WHATSNEW                                         | 10 ++++++----
 docs/manual/CoreTasks/fail.html                  |  5 +++++
 src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Exit.java |  9 +++++++++
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index 0b044159a..6d2736df9 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -10,10 +10,6 @@ Changes that could break older environments:
   rmic to use a new compiler a lot easier but may break custom
   versions of this task that rely on the old implementation.
 
-* <touch> can now work on <fileset>s
-
-* <uptodate> now supports a value attribute
-
 Other changes:
 --------------
 
@@ -27,6 +23,12 @@ Other changes:
 
 * you can now specify a description for <p4change>
 
+* <touch> can now work on <fileset>s
+
+* <uptodate> now supports a value attribute
+
+* <fail> supports nested text
+
 Fixed bugs:
 -----------
 
diff --git a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/fail.html b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/fail.html
index 3fc76814c..3b7c26650 100644
--- a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/fail.html
+++ b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/fail.html
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
 <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>
 <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
   <tr>
@@ -41,6 +43,9 @@ BUILD FAILED
 build.xml:4: Something wrong here.
 </pre>
 
+<pre>  &lt;fail&gt;Something wrong here.&lt;/fail&gt;</pre>
+<p>will give the same result as above.</p>
+
 <hr>
 <p align="center">Copyright &copy; 2000,2001 Apache Software Foundation. All rights
 Reserved.</p>
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Exit.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Exit.java
index 113f0fe90..e707db6ca 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Exit.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Exit.java
@@ -76,4 +76,13 @@ public class Exit extends Task {
             throw new BuildException("No message");
         }
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Set a multiline message.
+     */
+    public void addText(String msg) {
+        message += 
+            ProjectHelper.replaceProperties(project, msg, project.getProperties());
+    }
+
 }