Give me a couple more days.
This is what I am doing:
- Path, FileSet, and soon Arg implement the CompositeType interface:
interface CompositeType {
/**
* Returns a array of String, representing each element of the object
*/
String[] list();
/**
* Gets the separator character used by the <code>toString()</code>
method.
*/
char getSeparator();
/**
* When <code>noDuplicate</code> is set to <code>true</code>, the list
* returned by <code>list()</code> will not have any duplicate.
*/
void setNoDuplicate(boolean noDuplicate);
/**
* Returns <code>true</code> if <code>list()</code> removes duplicates.
*/
boolean getNoDuplicate();
/**
* Returns a String with the specified (instead of the default)
separator
*/
String toString(char separator);
}
- Property will take an additional optional argument, called separator, that
will cause the referenced object to return
a String with the specified separator. Otherwise the default separator is
used (path separator for Path, space for Arg
and FileSet.
- I consider separator a property of the referencing object (it wants a
specific view) rather than of the referenced
object: a FileSet could be used with space separator or path separator
depending on the context.
- I consider the fact that a CompositeType returns or does not return
duplicate a property of the object itself.
In fact, I am not sure that setNoDuplicate() should be public.
At this point, I have two issues:
- For FileSet to return a list of file, it requires context from a project.
I have decided to add a constructor that takes
a Project as argument like path. In fact I have made project a field of
DataType.
- I have no idea of what PatternSet should return in its toString method.
Code coming soon.
Vincent.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Bodewig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 3:40 AM
Subject: Re: refid in property
> >>>>> "JAF" == Jose Alberto Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> JAF> I think there are perfectly valid String versions for these
> JAF> things:
>
> JAF> - FileSet.toString() should return the white space separated
> JAF> list of files like you would use in the <arg line="..."> of
> JAF> <exec>.
>
> I'm not sure. Maybe will won't the excluded directories instead of the
> included files. OK, that's silly, but what about included directories
> - list them or not?
>
> Then you might prefer comma as a separator - and quoting of filenames
> that contain spaces ...
>
> JAF> - Path.toString() should return the path in the correct format
> JAF> for the OS.
>
> it does 8^)
>
> JAF> About AntStructure, well souldn't it generate the DTD as the
> JAF> string?
>
> But you are holding a reference to the AntStructure task, not its
> result. So toString would need to call execute first. Could be done,
> but do you think it would be useful (to have a property holding the
> DTD)?
>
> Stefan
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