passing value to remote ant target - ant

Question

I have two ant files say antFile1.xml and antFile2.xml on windows and linux machine respectively.
antFile1.xml
<target name="executeOnLinux">
<sshexec
host="${remote.host.ip}"
username="${remote.user.id}"
password="${remote.user.ssh.password}"
command="ant -f antFile2.xml 'linuxAntTarget'"
trust="true"/>
</target>
antFile2.xml
<target name="linuxAntTarget">
<input message="Enter application edition number" addproperty="editionNo"/>
<echo message="${editionNo}"/>
</target>
When I execute the the target named "executeOnLinux" from antFile1.xml from my, it connects to the linux machine and starts executing the "linuxAntTarget" from antFile2.xml file. But, as soon as it reaches to the the point where user input is required keeps waiting since I am not able to pass the input. My question is how can I pass the value to it? Is this even possible or there is any other better way of doing it?

Answer 1

Since Ant 1.9.4, the sshexec task provides a useSystemIn attribute:
Whether to pass the current standard input to the remote process, defaults to false
You may also try the input attribute from the same task:
A file from which the executed command's standard input is taken. This attribute is mutually exclusive with the inputstring and inputproperty attributes.
When executing more than one command via commandResource, input will be read for each command. since Ant 1.8.0