Stefan Bodewig wrote:
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Didn't understand a thing ;-)
Me neither 8-)
:-))
Good, it means that I was right in my supposition.
The Ant HEAD gives you the possibility of intercepting the request to resolve a property. In this way it's possible to insert an interceptor that uses jxpath to resolve properties that start with jxpath: or velocity or whatever.
It's theorically possible to do the same with references, and give the possibility of having an interceptor to give the reference.
I tried to explain why it's more a complication than a feature, and in fact it's now even more clear that it's too confusing.
I had a use case for it, but it now shows that it was too specific, so I won't send a patch to have it done as instead I proposed earlier.
Still don't get it? ;-)
Don't worry, just take my word for it then: the reason why we have a PropertyHelper and not a ReferenceHelper is that there is no compelling enough reason to have it, also given that it's confusing.
Cheers! :-D
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