I was thinking after submiting my patch for CVS (that redirects output or error to a file) that it might make sense to be able to redirect output for any task, rather than reimplementing this functionality for tasks on an ad hoc manner.
I notice that the <echo/> task simply specifies "file" as the output file, however, I think that if it is generalized, there should be an output, error, and perhaps input file. However, I think that it is a good idea to have an option to append, perhaps implemented as in the echo task using a boolean append. ie, <echo/> currently seems to work something like this: <echo message="Eat at Al's" file="eat.txt" append="yes"/> Julian. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diane Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 12:11 PM Subject: RE: Output file attribute for <java> task? > --- Jose Alberto Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the last week we have seen adding outfile attribute to <echo>, > > <exec>, and the list keeps on growing. It looks like this is a > > generalized need that probably should be done at the Task level and get > > all tasks able to use this functionality. > > > > I am thinking on having Task.getOutputStream() which will return the > > correct output stream depending of the value for "outfile" > > or "appendfile". What do people thing about this? > > I like the idea -- having it be consistent across all the tasks would be a > good thing, and "appendfile" would be a nice addition. I have several > targets I'm putting together now that I'd really like to have their output > going to a single output file, not as part of all the logging output from > ant redirected but just the output they produce going into their own > output file, so having "outfile" and "appendfile" generally available > would come in very handy. > > Diane > > ===== > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! > http://photos.yahoo.com/ >
