Thanks Conor, I'll do this as soon as possible and get back to you. Jayme
-----Original Message----- From: Conor MacNeill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 7:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Request for Patch to BuildException Jayme, I would suggest that you have a go yourself and submit a patch. Of course, at the moment, committers seem to be a little thin on the ground so it may not improve the situation :-). If I have time, I'll have a look, but it may be a little while. Conor > -----Original Message----- > From: Edwards, Jayme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 9 May 2000 4:40 > To: Apache Ant-Dev Mailing List (E-mail) > Subject: RE: Request for Patch to BuildException > > > Is someone going to reply to this??????? > > Jayme > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Edwards, Jayme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 4:40 PM > To: Apache Ant-Dev Mailing List (E-mail) > Subject: Request for Patch to BuildException > > I'm writing a module (as most of you know) in Forte to use Ant > projects inside the IDE. One of my needs is to determine if an > error during a build was thrown by Javac, and to then get the > line/column number of the error or at least to determine it from > the string. I looked at BuildException (thrown by execute() of > targets and tasks) and noticed it gets this exception passed into > it's constructor but it is kept private. Would it be possible to > add an "Exception getCause()" method to retrieve the underlying > error. Otherwise possibly we could make this method protected, > allow us to subclass it, and pass it into a "void > setCauseHandler(CauseHandler handler)" method exposed by the > project or target/task object. > > Any help would be great, I'd be willing to make the changes > myself but it will probably be much quicker to those of you > intimate with the source. > > Thanks, > Jayme >
