https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47003
Summary: Add to ant lib classpath from within project file
Product: Ant
Version: 1.7.1
Platform: PC
OS/Version: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P2
Component: Optional Tasks
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
I'm trying to write ant build files that only require developers to have ant
core installed, and resolve any optional tasks through ivy. For some tasks that
works fairly well by <taskdef>ing them with a proper nested classpath argument.
At least in the case of <junitreport>, however, this approach fails when trying
to format the combined report, due to missing TraXLiaison. I just filed bug
#47002 about this.
On the whole, a cleaner solution would be preferable, though. I would imagine
some expandable class loader within ant itself. Then there could be some task
which adds a given resource collection to the internal ant classpath, making it
available whenever an UnknownElement is instantiated or a task is executed.
This way, I could declare all optional tasks in ivy, could tell ivy to retrieve
them, then could ant to add them to its classpath, and start using the tasks
without any need to redefine tasks or specify bulky classpaths. Especially now
that ivy is an official ant project, I would consider such scenarios very
useful.
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