[ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-897?page=comments#action_47179 ]
Steve Loughran commented on MNG-897:
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I'm not going to comment on the merites of the idea; that is for a maven
person.
but from the perspective of the Ant team, there are better ways to embed stuff.
just define a new ant datatype, give it an ID. Then ant itself can read (and
ignore it), or it can be extracted using XSLT
<mojo:metadata id="my-metadata" >
<mojo goal="myGoal" phase="generate-sources">
<description>This goal does something really cool</description>
<parameters>
<parameter name="basedir" expression="${basedir}" required="true"
type="java.io.File"/>
</parameters>
<call>myGoalTarget</call>
</mojo>
<mojo goal="defaultGoal" phase="compile">
<description>This goal does something really cool</description>
<parameters>
<parameter name="basedir" expression="${basedir}" required="true"
type="java.io.File"/>
</parameters>
</mojo>
</mojo:metadata>
The metadata type would do nothing with it ('cept flag if there was a duplicate
definition), but you could extract this stuff programmatically, or by an xpath
expression like //*/mojo:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"my-metadata"]
Also, you do have to parse an XML doc as an XML doc, not a string. otherwise
you wont handle entity includes, ant imports, etc properly.
> allows use of Ant build files
> -----------------------------
>
> Key: MNG-897
> URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-897
> Project: Maven 2
> Type: Improvement
> Components: maven-ant-plugin
> Versions: 2.0-alpha-3
> Reporter: Chris Berry
> Assignee: John Casey
> Fix For: 2.0-beta-3
> Attachments: antfile.zip
>
> Original Estimate: 8 hours
> Time Spent: 6 hours
> Remaining: 2 hours
>
> Per John Casey, This is logged to that it stays on the radar.
> Please consider incorporating my antfile plugin.
> I have included the following in the ZIP
> maven-antrun-plugin --> the basic antrun w/ a few small mods
> maven-antfile-plugin
> maven-axisant-plugin --> an example plugin using the antfile plugin
> axis-master --> a "grouping" plugin for axis example
> my-app --> an example app using the axisant plugin.
> Cheers,
> -- Chris
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