Anyone? Stefan?
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Jon Stevens <latch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Been a long long time since I've been around these parts, so apologies
> if this has been covered before.
>
> What I'd like to do is be able to add a couple of attributes to the
> <file> element that lives in a <filelist> and then get access to those
> attributes in my Task. I've mucked around for the last couple hours on
> seeing how I could extend the existing ant code to make this happen
> and it really doesn't seem easily possible.
>
> For example:
>
> <path id="filelist.classpath">
> <myfilelist dir="${lib.dir}">
> <file name="${ant.jar}" src="thesrc" scope="run" />
> <file name="svntask.jar" src="svntasksrc" scope="compile" />
> </myfilelist>
> </path>
>
> <myTask>
> <classpath refid="foo" />
> </myTask>
>
> Thus, in MyTask.java, I have:
>
> private List<Path> classpaths = new ArrayList<Path>();
>
> public void addClasspath(Path classpath) {
> classpaths.add(classpath);
> }
>
> This works fine.
>
> However, since there is no way to access the Union within a Path, I'm
> kind of stuck cause I can't access the actual myfilelist objects to
> get out my additional attributes. I could implement my own Path
> object, but that is kind of a pain as I've already had to copy/paste
> the source code for FileList.
>
> I guess, ideally, Ant would be a lot more extensible if all of the
> private fields had getter/setters and internally those getter/setters
> were used instead of direct access. This would allow me to more easily
> extend the existing Ant objects.
>
> What I'm trying to accomplish is the ability to define a <path> within
> Ant and then be able to pass that to a Task that I wrote that can
> generate the Eclipse .classpath and .launch files. The task will be
> smart about looking at the scope (run/compile) as well as pointing to
> the source for the jar file.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> jon
>
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