Return value when internally calling target with phing/phingcall

Question

I am calling a target by means of phingcall command. I want to pass back a status variable from the called target or at least change the existing value from the calling target. Goal: I want to branch in my main target controlling logic if the sub target fails which I indicate with a property. The code below does not work. Any idea how to make it work or an altertive approach for my goal?

Thanks, Juergen

<target name="main">
    <echo>target a</echo>
    <echo>${bOk}</echo>
    <exec command="echo 1" outputProperty="bOk" />
    <echo>bOk is 1: ${bOk}</echo>
    <phingcall inheritRefs="true" target="sub">
    </phingcall>
    <echo>bOk should now be 0: ${bOk}</echo>
</target>

<target name="sub">
    <echo>target b</echo>
    <echo>bOk is 1: ${bOk}</echo>
    <exec command="echo 0" outputProperty="bOk" />
    <echo>bOk now is 0: ${bOk}</echo>
</target>

The problem here is that

   <echo>bOk should now be 0: ${bOk}</echo>

echos

   bOk should now be 0: 1

Answer 1

Even with the great help of #phing IRC I couldn't solve the problem. I decided to write a custom task to account for data passing between targets:

<?php

require_once "phing/Task.php";

class rvGlobalTask extends Task {

    private static $bOk = 1;
    private $sMode = null;
    private $bValue = null;
    private $outputProperty = null;

    public function setSMode( $sMode ) {
        $this->sMode = $sMode;
    }
    public function setBValue( $bValue ) {
        $this->bValue = $bValue;
    }
    public function setOutputProperty( $outputProperty ) {
        $this->outputProperty = $outputProperty;
    }

    public function main() {
        if ( $this->sMode == "set" ) {
            rvGlobalTask::$bOk = $this->bValue;
        } else {
            $this->project->setProperty(
                $this->outputProperty,
                rvGlobalTask::$bOk
            );
        }
    }
}
?>

This works fine for my problem. Perhaps someone else finds this useful as well.