May 27, 2009 by Gerd Wuetherich
Scope: All Project Types
Description
The hasNature condition is an Ant condition that can be used to check if a project has a specific nature. Natures are used to assign specific behaviour to Eclipse projects. Java projects for example have the nature 'org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature'.
The hasNature condition can be used with ant's native condition and waitfor tasks (see Condition Task). It can also be used with the if-task from the ant-contrib project to create build steps that check whether a project has some specific nature.
Arguments
The hasNature datatype provides the following arguments:
| Argument | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| workspaceDirectory | Absolute path of the workspace directory | Either 'workspaceDirectory' or 'workspaceId' has to be specified |
| workspaceId | The identifier of a defined workspace (see <workspaceDefinition>) | Either 'workspaceDirectory' or 'workspaceId' has to be specified |
| projectName | Name of the eclipse project | yes |
| nature | Name of a Nature that should be checked | yes |
Example usage
The following example checks if the project with the name 'simple.java.project' has the nature 'org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature':
<antcontrib:if> <ant4eclipse:hasNature workspacedirectory="${workspace}" projectname="simple.java.project" nature="org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature" /> <antcontrib:then> ... </antcontrib:then> </antcontrib:if>
