Re: [sbt] How do you access the current State?

[Mark Harrah]

Hi Andreas,

On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:30:50 -0800 (PST)
Andreas W <wind...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I am trying to access the current state, following instructions here:
> http://www.scala-sbt.org/release/docs/Extending/Build-State.html#project-related-data.
> Apparently, there exists an entity "currentState" which can be imported to
> get at the current state, as described here:
> http://www.scala-sbt.org/release/docs/Detailed-Topics/Console-Project.html.
> However, no matter what I do, I receive an error "not found: value
> currentState", and Google produces no reference to "currentState" other
> than the above link. If this mystical object existed, should it not at
> least produce hits from the source code or the API documentation? Anyway, I
> am baffled and stuck, any help would be much appreciated.

`currentState` is the binding only for the `console-project` task. When you are writing your own task, use the output of the `state` task. I've added a short section to the Build-State page that mentions this.

-Mark

> Thanks!
>
> Andreas
>
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