Calling a java class as ant target

Here is the way to do it

classname: is filename of java :Ex: AutomationFileSequence
 arg: Any arguments if required to run the class needs to be mentioned here.

<target name="run_PostData" >
  <java fork="false" failonerror="yes" classname="com.qa.automation.main.AutomationFileSequence" classpathref="classpath"> 
            <arg line="${basedir}/Automation_PostData.properties"/>
    <arg line="PostData"/>
            </java>
            </target>

Starting and stopping selenium server through ant

Here is the way to do it.

Start selenium hub:

<target name="startServerhub">
        <echo>Starting Selenium Server...</echo>
        <java jar="${lib.dir}/selenium-server-standalone.jar" fork="true" spawn="true">
            <arg line="-port ${selenium.port} -trustAllSSLcertificates"/>
            <arg line="-log log.txt"/>   
            <arg value="-role"/>
            <arg value="hub"/>
        </java>
    </target>

Start selenium RC:

<target name="startServerRC" depends="startServerhub">
        <echo>Starting Selenium Server...</echo>
        <java jar="${lib.dir}/selenium-server-standalone.jar" fork="true" spawn="true">
            <arg line="-port 5555"/>
            <arg line="-log log.txt"/>   
            <arg line="-firefoxProfileTemplate"/>
            <arg value="${lib.dir}/ff_profile"/>
            <arg line="-userExtensions"/>
                <arg value="${lib.dir}/user-extensions.js"/>
            <arg line="-role node"/>
            <arg line="-hub http://localhost:4444/grid/register "/>
            <!--<arg line="-maxSession 10"/>
            <arg line="-maxInstances=10"/>-->
        </java>
    </target>


Now ,save the targets in the file build.xml .navigate to the folder through cmd prompt and call



 ant startServerRC

which will internally call startServerhub,since startServerRC depends on startServerhub.



Stop selenium :

<target name="stop-selenium" description="stop selenium server">
        <echo>Stopping selenium server</echo>
        <get taskname="selenium-shutdown" dest="result.txt" ignoreerrors="true"
             src="http://localhost:${selenium.port}/selenium-server/driver/?cmd=shutDownSeleniumServer"/>
    </target>


To stop selenium, call  : ant stop-selenium.

Sample Ant Script for running targets parallel and sequential

Recently ,I faced a challenge for making one target which can run the entire suite with lot of module dependencies.This was resolved with the help of ant targets: sequential and parallel.


Requirement :
I need to run the following sequetially

1.compile target
2. run and run_psdata targets paralelly
3.run_PreData,run_DFPPulls,run_AdTechPulls.... parallelly
4.run_PostData,run_Sales parallely
5.run_Administration,run_E2EPartner360,..... parallelly
6.run_Alerts,run_CustomFields  parallelly
7.Stop selenium

Below is the code to do all the above steps sequentially


<target name="CItarget">    
        <sequential>
            <antcall target="compile"/>
            <parallel>
              <antcall target="run"/>
              <antcall target="run_PSDATA"/>
            </parallel>
             <parallel>
                <antcall target="run_PreData"/>
                <antcall target="run_DFPPulls"/>
                <antcall target="run_AdTechPulls"/>
                <antcall target="run_AppnexusPulls"/>
                <antcall target="run_FTPPulls"/>
                <antcall target="run_OASPulls"/>
                <antcall target="run_GDFPPulls"/>
                <antcall target="run_FreewheelPulls"/>
                <antcall target="run_ThirdPartyPulls"/>
            </parallel>
    <parallel>
        <antcall target="run_PostData"/>
        <antcall target="run_Sales"/>
    </parallel>
            <parallel>
                <antcall target="run_Administration"/>
                <antcall target="run_E2EPartner360"/>
                <antcall target="run_Finance"/>
                <antcall target="run_Loaders"/>
                <antcall target="run_Accounts"/>
                <antcall target="run_Adops"/>
            </parallel>
            <parallel>
                 <antcall target="run_Alerts"/>
                <antcall target="run_CustomFields"/>
            </parallel>
            <antcall target="stop-selenium"/>
       </sequential>
    </target>