[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
Unfortunately, I'm used to the original ProjectHelper, and looking at the "embed" code I find mysel disoriented.
- What are all the new features it supports?
- top level tasks
- uses SAX2
- stateless handlers ( i.e. all 'state' is in AntContext, all handlers
are singletons ).
- automatically replaces ProjectHelper using the discovery ( i.e. just
place ant-sax2.jar in lib, and ProjectHelper2 will be used )
- uses PropertyInterceptor ( if any registered ) before looking in the properties hashtable
- import via Import task
- <systemPath> allows you to add dynamically a <path> to ant/lib
( like junit.jar ) and make optional tasks work with this one.
hey, this is cool :-) Put this in the README of EMBED, you have already written it now :-)
- Basically, how does it work?
Just like the old one :-) I just did a bit of refactoring to make it stateless ( no for performance, but because I think it is much easier to have access to the whole state - including
element stack, file stack, etc )
Waiting for your answer I have understood the ProjectHelper2, although the delayed stuff is still a bit strange, but cool ;-S
- How to use it in buildfiles - ie please add example buildfiles
What do you mean ?
So far it builds the same files as gump ( i.e. with ProjectHelper2
I build the same set of projects as normal ant ).
I'll add a sample for import and systemPath, and soon a BSF and JXPath hook.
Ah, ok, I was thinking of this.
- What needs to be done to /finish/ it?
From my point of view ProjectHelper2 it's almost done, just minorcleanups, samples/docs and that's it. I don't expect much change to the code.
I also think so :-)
But... I have a problem.
Antcall doesn't work if I call a target of an imported file from a task in the imported file itself :-/
The dynamic properties are 'plugged' by regular tasks
This is what I don't understand well. Has it to do with PropertyInterceptor? Could you show me how it's supposed to work?
- and import is also a regular task, etc.
Although you left the renaming code in the ProjectHelper2...
I am trying to elminate the special treatment of DataTypes/Tasks - there is some complexity there that I feel can be eliminated, but
not sure how to do it without braking something.
I really would love to be able to use the hinted Xpath-capable XMLProperty.
Give me few more days for this one.
I wanted to help you do it, but I also have to get ready for my vacation tomorrow, so I just might have time to take a look and think of it while on the beach next week :-D
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