Ant Echo output discrepancy

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1

In working through the examples during the Chicago training (Exercise 12.1) I found that the ant echo action through the ant importBuild setup doesn’t match the action of gradle’s version of an ant echo. See below:

build.xml
<project name='checksum'>
 <target name='printChecksum'>
  <checksum property='checksumOut'>
   <fileset dir='.'>
    <include name='agile.txt'/>
   </fileset>
  </checksum>
  <echo>${checksumOut}</echo>
 </target>
</project>
build.gradle
ant.importBuild 'build.xml'
  printChecksum {
 doFirst {
  println 'before printChecksum'
 }
 doLast {
  println 'after printChecksum'
 }
}
  task createChecksum << {
 ant {
  checksum(property: 'checksumOut') {
   fileset(dir: '.') {
    include(name: 'agile.txt')
   }
  }
    println 'before ant:echoing checksum'
  echo {
   checksumOut
  }
  println 'after ant:echoing checksum'
 }
}
Output
smac:12.1-Ant-Integration sgoings$ gradle pC cC --rerun-tasks
:printChecksum
before printChecksum
[ant:echo] 14b904baef9f66bdf87d5083b8ddd74a
after printChecksum
:createChecksum
before ant:echoing checksum
[ant:echo]
 after ant:echoing checksum
  BUILD SUCCESSFUL
2

I would guess that this may not be supported by ant builder:

echo {
  checksumOut
}

Try this:

echo(message: checksumOut)