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http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31121 echoproperties: Add suffix attribute and property attribute, etc Summary: echoproperties: Add suffix attribute and property attribute, etc Product: Ant Version: 1.6.2 Platform: Other OS/Version: Windows NT/2K Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: Other Component: Optional Tasks AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just to suggest adding two attributes: suffix and property and also to improve the printing output: -Having a prefix only, it is quite restrictive, because some times people use suffix notation instead of prefix notation. - Considering the attribute property, for just informing about a given property, usefull for debugging. I don't know how using the prefix attribute to print only the property 'class' and not 'class.resources'. At least it is not so well documented about the syntax of prefix attribute (do it accept regular expressions?, could you give some examples?) - Give the possibility of printing on the system output on the same you will see it using the <echo> task. <echoproperties> interpret some spetial characters, such us: new line, ':', '\', etc. Which is a good idea for printing to a properties file (using destdir attribute), but for printing to the standard output it is not so frendly (see the example). Such behaviour chould be controlled adding another attribute, for example(format = {output, file}) Example: I want to print the property, defined on the properties file like this: message.junit.present = \ WARNING(Isfx): The build process detected${nl}\ \ junit.jar/ant-junit.jar doesn't exist or it location is${nl}\ \ wrong. We expect such files should be located on the${nl}\ \ ${ant.lib}${nl}\ \ For more information please read the file:${nl}\ \ ${antdoc.index} Note: I use the backslash at the begining for indenting. This property is going to be used on <echo> task for informing about the building process. I prefer to use <echo message ="${message.junit.present}", instead of printing directly the message using <echo>bla bla bla</echo>, because the indentation is not so pretty and also for avoiding a lot of message information on my build.xml. print-properties: [echoproperties] #Ant properties [echoproperties] #Wed Sep 08 17:27:11 GMT+01:00 2004 [echoproperties] message.junit.present=WARNING(Isfx)\: The build process detecte d\r\n junit.jar/ant-junit.jar doesn't exist or it location is\r\n wrong. We ex pect such files should be located on the\r\n C\:\\Archivos de programa\\apache- ant-1.6.2\\lib\r\n For more information please read the file\:\r\n P\:\\isfx\\ doc\\antdoc\\index.html And I would expect something like this, when printing to the standard output: print-properties: [echoproperties] #Ant properties [echoproperties] #Wed Sep 08 17:27:11 GMT+01:00 2004 [echoproperties] message.junit.present=WARNING(Isfx): The build process detecte d junit.jar/ant-junit.jar doesn't exist or it location is wrong. We expect such files should be located on the C:\Archivos de programa\apache-ant-1.6.2\lib For more information please read the file: P:\isfx\doc\antdoc\index.html Thanks in advance, David Leal --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
