I looked into that a little, but I don't know the code well enough to know. One thing I did see was that org.apache.tools.ant.ProjectHelper.NestedElementHandler.init() was handling 'param' differently depending on whether it is the built-in task or the custom task.
Kris > -----Original Message----- > From: Diane Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 10:41 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Property Replacement and Custom Tasks > > > Not sure, but you might want to look thru the changes that > implemented the > new "inheritAll" attribute for <ant>/<antcall>. > > Diane > > --- "Kusumoto, Kris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After upgrading from 1.2 to 1.4 one of my custom tasks quit > working. > > After some testing, I narrowed the problem down to an unexpected > > difference in property replacement between built-in tasks vs. custom > > tasks. > > > > The build.xml below is a minimal example which doesn't use my custom > > task but still illustrates the issue. The custom task > 'testcall' maps > > to Ant's CallTarget (i.e. antcall). I would expect both calls to > > the 'test' target to operate the same, but they don't. Am > I mis-using > > property replacement? > > > > Kris > > > > BUILD.XML > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > <project name="unused" default="all" basedir="."> > > > > <target name="all"> > > <property name="bad" value="good" /> > > <taskdef name="testcall" > > classname="org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.CallTarget" /> > > <antcall target="test"> > > <param name="arg" value="${bad}" /> > > </antcall> > > <testcall target="test"> > > <param name="arg" value="${bad}" /> > > </testcall> > > </target> > > > > <target name="test"> > > <echo message="test is ${arg}" /> > > </target> > > > > </project> > > > > OUTPUT > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Buildfile: build.xml > > > > all: > > > > test: > > [echo] test is good > > > > test: > > [echo] test is ${bad} > > > > BUILD SUCCESSFUL > > > > Total time: 0 seconds > > > ===== > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. > http://phone.yahoo.com >
