matthew,
i've been there already, submitted code doing that, it has been rejected.
it is not the first time, or second time, that these features are proposed. i
think the the folks driving the evolution of ant should start considering
these features again, they should listen a little more of what developers/user
want/need.
fyi:
for embedded properties i modified the project helper, so you can use embedded
variables "a.${b}.c" everywhere.
for looping i've implemented the "xantcall" target, extending the "antcall"
target that supports iterations:
<xantcall target="TARGET" iterate="LIST" iterator="VAR"/>
where VAR is the name of the variable taht will have the element of the
current iteration.
you can find the code in the archives.
regards.
a
Matthew Inger wrote:
> attached are two useful tasks i have written, that would
> be helpful to be put into the next release:
>
> PropertyCopy - double dereferencing (ie. ${a.${b}.c})
>
> this essentially takes the "from" attribute and treats
> it as a property name. It gets the value of that property
> and puts it in the property given by the "name" attribute.
> It's useful when you have property names that follow a certain
> pattern with some identifier in it (ie. org.TEST.server)
>
> ex. <propertycopy name="NewVar" from="a.${b}.c" />
>
> Foreach - relatively self explanatory
>
> ex. <foreach list="${items}" target="callMe"
> param="item" delimiter="," />
>
> I'm sure there are foreach tasks floating around, but
> while i'm posting propertycopy i might as well post
> the foreach task as well.
>
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> Name: ForEach.java
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