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Re: terminating running builds better
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2007-11-06 06:29:33
Darin Swanson wrote:
> Eclipse is pretty similar to #1.
> We have a progress monitor / build listener within
which we check to see 
> if the user has requested to cancel the build.
> If the monitor is cancelled we throw a
OperationCancelledException which 
> halts the execution of the build from the Eclipse entry
point and reports 
> the cancelled message to the user.
> 
> Darins
> http://www.ru
nnerwhocodes.blogspot.com/

well, I'll do the same thing.  Now I know it works.

Ant-wise, we could create an interruptable logger that lets
you do this 
formally; the main reason for doing so would be to add tests
for it. 
This is clearly an important use case.


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> Steve Loughran wrote:
>> What do IDEs do to stop ant builds? just kill the
thread/process?
> 
> NB behaves as follows:
> 
> 1. It sets a special flag. The next time any
BuildListener/BuildLogger 
> method is called on the IDE's listener, it will throw a
BuildException, 
> which usually stops the build.
> 
> 2. If several seconds have elapsed with no listener
method, or if the 
> build did not stop for any other reason, Thread.stop is
called.
> 
> For example, if <java fork="true"> is
the active task, any output 
> printed will cause #1 to be triggered. Otherwise,
ThreadDeath is caught 
> by the task, which stops the external process and then
rethrows.
> 
> Not perfect but seems to work reasonably well in
practice. #2 could 
> probably be improved to first try Thread.interrupt and
only use 
> Thread.stop as a last resort.
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