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11<h2>Waitfor</h2>
12<h3>Description</h3>
13<p>Blocks execution until a set of specified conditions become true. This is intended
14 to be used with the <a href="parallel.html">parallel</a> task to
15 synchronize a set of processes.</p>
16<p>The conditions to wait for are defined in <a href="waitfor.html#nested">nested elements</a>,
17if multiple conditions are specified, then the task will wait until all conditions are true..</p>
18<p></p>
19<p>If both maxwait and maxwaitunit are not specified, the maxwait is 3 minutes (180000 milliseconds).</p>
20<p>If the <code>timeoutproperty</code> attribute has been set, a
21property of that name will be created if the condition didn't come
22true within the specified time.</p>
23<h3>Parameters</h3>
24<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
25 <tr>
26 <td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
27 <td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
28 <td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
29 </tr>
30 <tr>
31 <td valign="top">maxwait</td>
32 <td valign="top">The maximum amount of time to wait for all the required conditions
33 to become true before failing the task. Defaults to 180000 maxwaitunits.</td>
34 <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
35 </tr>
36 <tr>
37 <td valign="top">maxwaitunit</td>
38 <td valign="top">The unit of time that must be used to interpret the value of the
39 maxwait attribute. Defaults to millisecond.
40 Valid Values are
41 <ul>
42 <li>millisecond</li>
43 <li>second</li>
44 <li>minute</li>
45 <li>hour</li>
46 <li>day</li>
47 <li>week</li>
48 </ul>
49 </td>
50 <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
51 </tr>
52 <tr>
53 <td valign="top">checkevery</td>
54 <td valign="top">The amount of time to wait between each test of the conditions.
55 Defaults to 500 checkeveryunits.</td>
56 <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
57 </tr>
58 <tr>
59 <td valign="top">checkeveryunit</td>
60 <td valign="top">The unit of time that must be used to interpret the value of the
61 checkevery attribute. Defaults to millisecond.
62 Valid Values are
63 <ul>
64 <li>millisecond</li>
65 <li>second</li>
66 <li>minute</li>
67 <li>hour</li>
68 <li>day</li>
69 <li>week</li>
70 </ul>
71 </td>
72 <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
73 </tr>
74 <tr>
75 <td valign="top">timeoutproperty</td>
76 <td valign="top">the name of the property to set if maxwait has
77 been exceeded.</td>
78 <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
79 </tr>
80</table>
81<h3><a name="nested">Nested Elements</a></h3>
82
83<p>The available conditions that satisfy the
84<code>&lt;waitfor&gt;</code> task are the same as those for the
85<a href="condition.html"><code>&lt;condition&gt;</code></a> task. See
86<a href="conditions.html">here</a> for the full list.</p>
87
88<h3>Examples</h3>
89<blockquote><pre>
90&lt;waitfor maxwait="30" maxwaitunit="second"&gt;
91 &lt;available file="errors.log"/&gt;
92&lt;/waitfor&gt;
93</pre></blockquote>
94<p>waits up to 30 seconds for a file called errors.log to appear.</p>
95<blockquote><pre>
96&lt;waitfor maxwait="3" maxwaitunit="minute" checkevery="500"&gt;
97 &lt;http url="http://localhost/myapp/index.html"/&gt;
98&lt;/waitfor&gt;
99</pre></blockquote>
100<p>waits up to 3 minutes (and checks every 500 milliseconds) for a web server on localhost
101 to serve up the specified URL.</p>
102<blockquote><pre>
103&lt;waitfor maxwait="10" maxwait="second"&gt;
104 &lt;and&gt;
105 &lt;socket server="dbserver" port="1521"/&gt;
106 &lt;http url="http://webserver/mypage.html"/&gt;
107 &lt;/and&gt;
108&lt;/waitfor&gt;
109</pre></blockquote>
110<p>waits up to 10 seconds for a server on the dbserver machine to begin listening
111 on port 1521 and for the http://webserver/mypage.html web page
112 to become available.</p>
113<hr><p align="center">Copyright &copy; 2001,2004-2005 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights
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