I have placed a first draft of my learning about JavaScript in Ant at http://www.sitepen.com/javascript.html
It is a modest start, with the only useful example so far showing how to create and execute an xslt task from JavaScript, but I hope someone will find it useful. The next thing I hope to add is an example of reading a properties file into JavaScript. -Dylan Schiemann http://www.sitepen.com/ --- Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just quickly, from the source code: > > addBeans(project.getProperties()); > addBeans(project.getUserProperties()); > addBeans(project.getTargets()); > addBeans(project.getReferences()); > > beans.put("project", getProject()); > > beans.put("self", this); > > This means you get: all properties by name (as > String's), all targets and > references by id, the Project object as "project", > and the script task > itself (for logging and other task specific > utilities) as "self". > > There are some caveats... if you have two things > with the same name/id, the > last one wins. If you have something named with an > illegal Java name, it is > omitted. > > Erik > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dylan Schiemann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 5:58 PM > Subject: Script task, listing of available objects > > > > Hi all, > > > > Is there a listing of the objects available to > > JavaScript using the script task? The > documentation > > on the ant site is very light, and the examples on > the > > mailing list are great, but without knowing where > to > > find a list of the objects, it seems arbitrary. > My > > knowledge of Java s very limited, but if the best > > thing to do is looking through the jars for the > > available objects I can do that. I just need a > shove > > in the right direction. > > > > I'm looking to do things like: > > > > - Call a task iteratively and fill in the > parameters > > for the task... such as the style task and passing > > parameters for each call. > > > > - Allow a script to access information from a > > properties file > > > > Using JavaScript with ant seems to be an often > asked > > and often unanswered question on the list, so I > would > > be willing to take any info that is passed along > and > > start a JavaScript ant faq if that would be > useful. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Dylan Schiemann > > http://www.sitepen.com/ > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! > > http://greetings.yahoo.com > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
