Hi all,
I am currently working on an IDE plug-in that also requires automatic generation of Ant build scripts.
I had a look at the Ant API and noticed that there are classes for Projects, Targets, Tasks, etc. which are essentially created and populated by the ProjectHelper/ProjectHelper2 classes with the help of the underlying XML parser. The API allows easy creation of a Project object from a build script, but there is no way to create a build script from a Project object that is held in memory - or is there?
As Ant is mainly a build tool, the current API design makes sense, but for my purpose, I need to go the other way round. Unfortunately, I noticed that the existing Project/Target/Task classes are not very helpful for me as they do not offer methods to produce XML output and don't expose the underlying DOM objects (and they sometimes do not even offer getter methods for all the information that would be required to create the corresponding XML element).
My questions are now:
(a) Is there something I am missing in the Ant API that would allow me to create a build.xml file from an initialized Project object?
(b) If not, does anybody think that such functionality would be useful and should be added to the Ant API?
(c) And if so, does anybody have suggestions how that should be integrated with the existing API? (for example, expose DOM objects in Project/Target/Task, or create a separate build script creator API)
Thanks a lot,
Mirko
Mirko Raner Software Engineer PTSC San Diego, CA
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