FU4CIListener build.xml not setting properties?

Question

I am following the Ant Task Setup.  I have flex sdk 3.6.0.X, apache-ant 1.8.2 and the flexunit source 4.1.0.
When I run > ant -v clean package
function(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}
Apache Ant(TM) version 1.8.2 compiled on December 20 2010
Trying the default build file: build.xml
Buildfile: C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\build.xml
Detected Java version: 1.7 in: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0\jre
Detected OS: Windows XP
parsing buildfile C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\build.xml with URI = file:/C:/projects/FlexUnit4CIListener/build.xml
Project base dir set to: C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener
parsing buildfile jar:file:/C:/apacheAnt/lib/ant.jar!/org/apache/tools/ant/antlib.xml with URI = jar:file:/C:/apacheAnt/lib/ant.jar!/org/apache/tools/ant/antlib.xml from a zip file
Importing file C:\projects\utils.xml from C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\build.xml
Overriding previous definition of reference to ant.projectHelper
parsing buildfile C:\projects\utils.xml with URI = file:/C:/projects/utils.xml
[macrodef] creating macro  gpg
[macrodef] creating macro  sonatype-bundle
Overriding previous definition of reference to ant.projectHelper
[property] Loading Environment env.
Property "build.version" has not been set
Property "build.number" has not been set
Property "build.sdk" has not been set
Build sequence for target(s) `clean' is [clean]
Complete build sequence is [clean, init, compile, report, package, deploy, ]
clean:
   [delete] Deleting directory C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\target
   [delete] Deleting directory C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\target\bin
   [delete] Deleting directory C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\target\docs
   [delete] Deleting directory C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\target\sonatype
   [delete] Deleting directory C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\target
   [delete] Deleting C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\libs\flexunit-4.1.0-x-as3_y.y.y.y.swc
Build sequence for target(s) `package' is [init, compile, report, package]
Complete build sequence is [init, compile, report, package, clean, deploy, ]
init:
    [mkdir] Skipping C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\libs because it already exists.
    [mkdir] Created dir: C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\target
    [mkdir] Created dir: C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\target\sonatype
    [mkdir] Created dir: C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\target\bin
    [mkdir] Created dir: C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\target\docs
     [copy] Copying 1 file to C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\libs
     [copy] Copying C:\projects\FlexUnit4\target\flexunit-4.1.0-x-as3_y.y.y.y.swc to C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\libs\flexunit-4.1.0-x-as3_y.y.y.y.swc
compile:
    [compc] Loading configuration file C:\flexunit\frameworks\flex-config.xml
    [compc] Adobe Compc (Flex Component Compiler)
    [compc] Version 3.6.0 build 16995
    [compc] Copyright (c) 2004-2007 Adobe Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
    [compc]
    [compc] command line: Error: configuration variable 'output' value contains unknown token 'build.version'
    [compc]
    [compc] Use 'compc -help' for information about using the command line.
BUILD FAILED
C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\build.xml:50: compc task failed
        at flex.ant.FlexTask.executeInProcess(FlexTask.java:299)
        at flex.ant.FlexTask.execute(FlexTask.java:225)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:291)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor4.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:390)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:411)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1399)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1368)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1251)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:809)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:217)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:280)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:109)
Total time: 1 second
build.version, build.number & build.sdk are properties that are not being set.  I would assume that they should be set internally somehow.  However, if I manually set them via -D switches (with arbitrary values) I get the following:
>ant -v clean package -Dbuild.version=1.2.3.4 -Dbuild.number=666 -Dbuild.sdk=4.1
function(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}
Apache Ant(TM) version 1.8.2 compiled on December 20 2010
Trying the default build file: build.xml
Buildfile: C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\build.xml
Detected Java version: 1.7 in: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0\jre
Detected OS: Windows XP
parsing buildfile C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\build.xml with URI = file:/C:/projects/FlexUnit4CIListener/build.xml
Project base dir set to: C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener
parsing buildfile jar:file:/C:/apacheAnt/lib/ant.jar!/org/apache/tools/ant/antlib.xml with URI = jar:file:/C:/apacheAnt/lib/ant.jar!/org/apache/tools/ant/antlib.xml from a zip file
Importing file C:\projects\utils.xml from C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\build.xml
Overriding previous definition of reference to ant.projectHelper
parsing buildfile C:\projects\utils.xml with URI = file:/C:/projects/utils.xml
[macrodef] creating macro  gpg
[macrodef] creating macro  sonatype-bundle
Overriding previous definition of reference to ant.projectHelper
[property] Loading Environment env.
Build sequence for target(s) `clean' is [clean]
Complete build sequence is [clean, init, compile, report, package, deploy, ]
clean:
   [delete] Deleting directory C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\target
   [delete] Deleting directory C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\target\bin
   [delete] Deleting directory C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\target\docs
   [delete] Deleting directory C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\target\sonatype
   [delete] Deleting directory C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\target
   [delete] Deleting C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\libs\flexunit-4.1.0-x-as3_y.y.y.y.swc
Build sequence for target(s) `package' is [init, compile, report, package]
Complete build sequence is [init, compile, report, package, clean, deploy, ]
init:
    [mkdir] Skipping C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\libs because it already exists.
    [mkdir] Created dir: C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\target
    [mkdir] Created dir: C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\target\sonatype
    [mkdir] Created dir: C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\target\bin
    [mkdir] Created dir: C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\target\docs
     [copy] Copying 1 file to C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\libs
     [copy] Copying C:\projects\FlexUnit4\target\flexunit-4.1.0-x-as3_y.y.y.y.swc to C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\libs\flexunit-4.1.0-x-as3_y.y.y.y.swc
compile:
    [compc] Loading configuration file C:\flexunit\frameworks\flex-config.xml
    [compc] C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\target\bin\flexunit-cilistener-1.2.3.4-666-4.1.swc (11773 bytes)
report:
Skipped because property 'build.report' not set.
package:
     [copy] Copying 1 file to C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\target
     [copy] Copying C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\target\bin\flexunit-cilistener-1.2.3.4-666-4.1.swc to C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\target\flexunit-cilistener-1.2.3.4-666-4.1.swc
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 4 seconds
I can see where the previous 3 properties are being used in the swc output file name, but now there is a build.report property that is not being set.  How do I know which properties need to be set, and what to set them to?

Answer 1

I was using the 4.5.1 flex SDK but there seemed to be other issues so I just used the link directly from the Ant Task Setup page (instead of using the newest SDK).  Upon following your instructions to ant build from the root directory, everything seemed to work correctly with a few exceptions.  Below is the last part of the output from the build.
function(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}
test:
Detected Java version: 1.7 in: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0\jre
Detected OS: Windows XP
Project base dir set to: C:\projects\FlexUnit4Test
      [ant] calling target(s) [test] in build file C:\projects\FlexUnit4Test\build.xml
parsing buildfile C:\projects\FlexUnit4Test\build.xml with URI = file:/C:/projects/FlexUnit4Test/build.xml
Project base dir set to: C:\projects\FlexUnit4Test
[property] Loading Environment env.
Override ignored for property "FLEX_HOME"
Property "env.FLEX_COVER_VIEWER" has not been set
[macrodef] creating macro  compile-runner
[macrodef] creating macro  execute-tests
[macrodef] creating macro  execute-tests-using-flexcover
[macrodef] creating macro  generate-html-report
      [ant] Entering C:\projects\FlexUnit4Test\build.xml...
Build sequence for target(s) `test' is [init, test-only, test-and-instrument, test]
Complete build sequence is [init, test-only, test-and-instrument, test, clean, ]
init:
    [mkdir] Created dir: C:\projects\FlexUnit4Test\target
    [mkdir] Created dir: C:\projects\FlexUnit4Test\target\bin
    [mkdir] Created dir: C:\projects\FlexUnit4Test\target\report\xunit\flex
    [mkdir] Created dir: C:\projects\FlexUnit4Test\target\report\xunit\as3
    [mkdir] Created dir: C:\projects\FlexUnit4Test\target\report\flexcover
     [copy] Copying 5 files to C:\projects\FlexUnit4Test\libs
     [copy] Copying C:\projects\FlexUnit4CIListener\target\flexunit-cilistener-4.1.0-x-y.y.y.y.swc to C:\projects\FlexUnit4Test\libs\flexunit-cilistener-4.1.0-x-y.y.y.y.swc
     [copy] Copying C:\projects\FlexUnit4FluintExtensions\target\fluint-extensions-4.1.0-x-y.y.y.y.swc to C:\projects\FlexUnit4Test\libs\fluint-extensions-4.1.0-x-y.y.y.y.swc
     [copy] Copying C:\projects\FlexUnit4\target\flexunit-4.1.0-x-as3_y.y.y.y.swc to C:\projects\FlexUnit4Test\libs\flexunit-4.1.0-x-as3_y.y.y.y.swc
     [copy] Copying C:\projects\FlexUnit4\target\flexunit-4.1.0-x-flex_y.y.y.y.swc to C:\projects\FlexUnit4Test\libs\flexunit-4.1.0-x-flex_y.y.y.y.swc
     [copy] Copying C:\projects\FlexUnit4FlexCoverListener\target\flexunit-flexcoverlistener-4.1.0-x-y.y.y.y. swc to C:\projects\FlexUnit4Test\libs\flexunit-flexcoverlistener-4.1.0-x-y.y.y.y.swc
     [copy] Copying 1 file to C:\projects\FlexUnit4Test\libs\build
     [copy] Copying C:\projects\FlexUnit4AntTasks\target\flexUnitTasks-4.1.0-x.jar to C:\projects\FlexUnit4Test\libs\build\flexUnitTasks-4.1.0-x.jar
test-only:
     [echo] Testing FlexUnit Flex build...
    [mxmlc] Loading configuration file C:\flexunit\frameworks\flex-config.xml
    [mxmlc] C:\projects\FlexUnit4Test\target\bin\TestRunner-flex.swf (924564 bytes)
[flexunit] Validating task attributes ...
[flexunit] Generating default values ...
[flexunit] Using default working dir [C:\projects\FlexUnit4Test]
[flexunit] Using the following settings for the test run:
[flexunit]  FLEX_HOME: [C:\flexunit]
[flexunit]  haltonfailure: [false]
[flexunit]  headless: [false]
[flexunit]  display: [99]
[flexunit]  localTrusted: [true]
[flexunit]  player: [flash]
[flexunit]  port: [1024]
[flexunit]  swf: [C:\projects\FlexUnit4Test\target\bin\TestRunner-flex.swf]
[flexunit]  timeout: [60000ms]
[flexunit]  toDir: [C:\projects\FlexUnit4Test\target\report\xunit\flex]
[flexunit] Setting up server process ...
[flexunit] Starting server ...
[flexunit] Entry [C:\projects\FlexUnit4Test\target\bin] already available in local trust file at [C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#Security\FlashPlayerTrust\flexUnit.cfg].
[flexunit] Executing 'rundll32' with arguments:
[flexunit] 'url.dll,FileProtocolHandler'
[flexunit] 'C:\projects\FlexUnit4Test\target\bin\TestRunner-flex.swf'
[flexunit]
[flexunit] The ' characters around the executable and arguments are
[flexunit] not part of the command.
[flexunit]
[flexunit] Opening server socket on port [1024].
[flexunit] Waiting for client connection ...
[flexunit]
[flexunit] Stopping server ...
[flexunit] End of test data reached, sending acknowledgement to player ...
[flexunit] Closing client connection ...
[flexunit] Closing server on port [1024] ...
      [ant] Exiting C:\projects\FlexUnit4Test\build.xml.
After this part of the log I get the following:
function(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}
BUILD FAILED
C:\projects\build.xml:103: The following error occurred while executing this line:
C:\projects\FlexUnit4Test\build.xml:180: The following error occurred while executing this line:
C:\projects\FlexUnit4Test\build.xml:62: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: Socket timeout waiting for flexunit report
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerGet(FutureTask.java:252)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:111)
        at org.flexunit.ant.tasks.TestRun.run(Unknown Source)
        at org.flexunit.ant.tasks.FlexUnitTask.execute(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:291)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor4.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Sequential.execute(Sequential.java:68)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:291)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor4.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.MacroInstance.execute(MacroInstance.java:398)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:291)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor4.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:390)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:411)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1399)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.SingleCheckExecutor.executeTargets(SingleCheckExecutor.java:3 8)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1251)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Ant.execute(Ant.java:442)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:291)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor4.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:390)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:411)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1399)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1368)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1251)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:809)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:217)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:280)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:109)
Caused by: Socket timeout waiting for flexunit report
        at org.flexunit.ant.FlexUnitSocketServer.start(Unknown Source)
        at org.flexunit.ant.FlexUnitSocketThread.call(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
Caused by: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Accept timed out
        at java.net.TwoStacksPlainSocketImpl.socketAccept(Native Method)
        at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.accept(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:396)
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.accept(PlainSocketImpl.java:183)
        at java.net.ServerSocket.implAccept(ServerSocket.java:522)
        at java.net.ServerSocket.accept(ServerSocket.java:490)
        at org.flexunit.ant.FlexUnitSocketServer.openClientSocket(Unknown Source)
        ... 7 more
Total time: 1 minute 38 seconds
So everything seems to be building correctly now, but not executing correctly.  Also, there are still a number of properties that are not being set:
function(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}
report:
Skipped because property 'build.report' not set.
instrument-compile:
Skipped because property 'build.instrument' not set.
package-instrument:
Skipped because property 'build.instrument' not set.
pmdReport:
Skipped because property 'build.pmd' not set.
Where should these values be set and what are appropriate values?  What could be causing the socket timeout and what exactly is it waiting for or attempting to accomplish with the sockets?
The end goal is to be able to use the flex SDK, flexunit and ANT on a linux server to automate my build/test process.  I am currently just trying to get ANT to work with the flex SDK and flexunit on a windows XP box so I can see what the output should be and how the whole system works before trying to inject it into my CI system.