How do I capture the output of an antcall inside of ant? - ant

Question

I have an Ant script which I run in Eclipse and it outputs in the console like so:
buildStuff:
[echo] Building <project>
doStuff:
syncStuff:
[sync] Copying 1 file to <directory>
doOtherStuff:
callWebservice:
[http] HTTP Request
[http] ********************
[http] URL: <url>
[http] Method: GET
[http] HTTP Response
[http] ********************
[http] Status: 200
[echo] [callWebservice] Success
I would like to put some/all of this output into a property inside the ant script.
With the exec task I can specify an "outputproperty" attribute, but this does not work for antcall task.
So, how do I either access or redirect the console output from within ant?

Answer 1

Ok, found something that works...
The record task can listen to the output and send it to a file.
Apparently it doesn't allow relative paths - the file is created in the same directory as the build script (irrespective of basedir value).
The loadfile task can then be used to put this into a property, followed by delete to clean up afterwards.
It would be nicer to have the recorder output direct to a property, but this doesn't appear to be an option, for whatever reason.
In summary, this worked:
<record name="${CurProject}.status" />
<echo>Building ${CurProject}</echo>
etc...
<record name="${CurProject}.status" action="stop" />
<loadfile srcFile="build/${CurProject}.status" property="Status" />
<delete file="build/${CurProject}.status" />