How can I use ant-contrib for to do loop 500 times?

Question

I need to do 500 times loop. Is there better way rather than

<property name="javato.activetesting.trialnum.list" value="0,1,2,...,500(terrible)" />

<for param="trialnum" list="${javato.activetesting.trialnum.list}">
   <sequential>
       <echo message="Sub-iteration:@{trialnum}" />
       <echo message="................" />
    </sequential>
</for>

I'm not sure how to progress this - any suggestions?

Answer 1

Antelope has an additional task called repeat which can be used like this:

 <taskdef name="repeat" classname="ise.antelope.tasks.Repeat"/>
 <repeat count="2" interval="1" unit="milliseconds">
     <echo>${count}</echo>
 </repeat>

Also found this solution from another question:

<target name="example4">
    <property name="n" value="3300"/>
    <property name="target" value="callee"/>
    <property name="param" value="calleeparam"/>
    <script language="javascript">
    // does n antcall's with iteration number param
    var n = parseInt(project.getProperty("n"),10);
    for (var i = 0; i &lt; n; i++) {
        var t = project.createTask("antcall");
        t.setTarget(project.getProperty("target"));
        var p = t.createParam();
        p.setName(project.getProperty("param"));
        p.setValue(""+i);
        t.perform();
    }
    </script>
</target>