Re: When running Ant on command line, how to not-show its WARNING messages and only show ERROR message?

From:
Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 9 Dec 2011 17:46:13 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<8577219.1484.1323481573410.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prez15>
www wrote:

I am running Ant on command line, there are many, many WARNING
messages, cluttering my screen:


That's because there are many, many bad code idioms cluttering up your prog=
ram.

    [javac] xx.java:48: warning: [unchecked] unchecked call to
<K1,V1>build(com.google.common.cache.CacheLoader<? super K1,V1>) as a
member of the raw type com.google.common.cache.CacheBuilder
    [javac] return builder.build(new
CacheLoader<LocationAndDataTypeIdentifier, IdentifierZipFileHandler>()
    [javac] ^
    [javac] www.java:48: warning: [unchecked] unchecked conversion


.... such as improper generic conversions.

I'm guessing there's a type relationship problem between the 'CacheLoader' =
reference you showed us and the return type of the method, which you declin=
ed to show us.

    [javac] found : com.google.common.cache.Cache
    [javac] required:
com.google.common.cache.Cache<ohd.hseb.hefs.pe.tools.LocationAndDataTypeI=

dentifier,ohd.hseb.hefs.pe.acceptance.IdentifierZipFileHandler>

 
...
 
    [javac] 1 error
    [javac] 52 warnings
 
BUILD FAILED
/a/b/c/build.xml:106: Compile failed; see the compiler error output
for details.
 
I hope to make these warning message go away. I cannot see the
compiler error either. There is no a output file. Should the error be
on the screen?


You show us some of the error messages that you say "clutter up your screen=
". Doesn't that count as "on the screen"?

What do you mean "no a output file"?

Ant reports all javac output in its output. Since you show us some of your=
 output, I conclude that the thing you want to see is in your output, just =
not in the part you deigned to share.

I've used Ant lots of times to compile, build and run Java programs. The o=
utput shows up on the screen just as you showed it, every time, unless redi=
rected. The output is the literal output of the 'javac' compiler, in the c=
ase of compilation, and therefore contains all the information you can get =
to track down your many, many bugs.

--
Lew

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