Peter Donald wrote:
> >Simply > >forcing Task authors to provide getters may be good enough. This can be > >validated at parse time (in IntrospectionHelper) for enforcement. > > Not desirable. Only a small population of users will ever use the getters > but it constitutes a significant amount of work. I disagree here. Adding a "public String getFoo()" is a 30 second task. I would be more than willing to volunteer my time to go through very task in Ant and provide such accessor methods if the group voiced support for it. > Also how would you deal > with sub-elements. Indexed properties, as defined by the JavaBeans spec. A little more involved than the "getFoo()" example, but not a big deal, especially since it can be handled by an abstract base class or a delegation class. sim
