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Jeffrey E. Care ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
WebSphere v7 Release Engineer
WebSphere Build Tooling Lead (Project Mantis)
"koden (sent by Nabble.com)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/18/2005
03:00:07 PM:
>
> I am using xmltask in my own custom ant task. I have a couple
> problems I can't fix.
>
>
> I'm not exactly sure how to create a new XmlTask. I tried: XmlTask
> xml_edit = (XmlTask) project.createTask("xmltask");
>
> The Eclipse IDE says the above "project" is depreciated. What else
> would I use there?
>
> I also added a taskdef that was called xmltask to my build.xml for
> my custom script:
>
>
>
>
>
> I'm writing a task called: versionupdatetask, and here's the error I
> get when I run my code:
>
> [versionupdatetask] java.lang.NullPointerException
> [versionupdatetask] at src.VersionUpdateTask.updateXML(Unknown
Source)
> [versionupdatetask] at src.VersionUpdateTask.do_update(Unknown
Source)
> [versionupdatetask] at src.VersionUpdateTask.execute(Unknown Source)
> [versionupdatetask] at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.
> execute(UnknownEl
> ement.java:275)
> [versionupdatetask] at
org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:364)
> [versionupdatetask] at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.
> execute(Target.java:341)
> [versionupdatetask] at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.
> performTasks(Target.java:
> 369)
> [versionupdatetask] at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.
> executeSortedTargets(Pro
> ject.java:1216)
> [versionupdatetask] at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.
> executeTarget(Project.ja
> va:1185)
> [versionupdatetask] at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.
> DefaultExecutor.executeTa
> rgets(DefaultExecutor.java:40)
> [versionupdatetask] at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.
> executeTargets(Project.j
> ava:1068)
> [versionupdatetask] at
org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:668)
> [versionupdatetask] at
org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:187)
> [versionupdatetask] at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.
> run(Launcher.jav
> a:246)
> [versionupdatetask] at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.
> main(Launcher.ja
> va:67)
> [versionupdatetask] update failed.
>
> What am I doing wrong? I'm using the attr ability of xmltask. It's
> basically in this format:
>
>
>
>
>
> But using java, I'm doing the following:
>
> XmlTask xml_edit = (XmlTask) project.createTask("xmltask");
> Attr xml_attr = xml_edit.createAttr();
> xml_attr.setPath(xpath);
> xml_attr.setAttr("value");
> xml_attr.setValue(new_val);
> FileSet xmlSet = new FileSet();
> xmlSet.setFile(new File(file_path));
> xmlSet.setDefaultexcludes(false);
> xml_edit.addFileset(xmlSet);
> xml_edit.execute();
>
> Problem as you can see, xml_edit (which is an XmlTask) isn't even
> linked to xml_attr. So how do I execute the attr function?
>
> Thanks in advance
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