Re: User implementations of custom interfaces can have access to Task instance?

2018-03-19 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2018-03-17, Jaikiran Pai wrote:

> Thanks for the input, Stefan. I took your suggestion and exposed a API
> to get the Project on that custom interface. It doesn't/can't directly
> use the IntrospectionHelper support available to project components,
> since unlike nested elements of a task, this custom class can be
> plugged in something like:

>  classname="some.custom.class.implementing.an.task.specific.interface"/>

> plus the fact that this custom class can reside in a classloader
> defined by nested  elements of this task.

Just a few remarks, do with them however you see fit :-)

* you can use part of IntrospectionHelper's infrastructure, of
  course. At least Project#setProjectReference so you don't have to
  reinvent the reflrection logic.

* Your approach for listeners is that of the original JUnit task and
  predates support for typedef together with

  public void add(SomeInterface child);

  for nested elements. Later we would have used the newer approach (see
  for example the  task accepting arbitrary Condition
  implementations.

  You may consider using

  public void addConfigured(ListenerInterface l) { ... }

  in your task and

  
  

  

   in the build file. You'd even get classloader support for free.

Stefan

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Re: User implementations of custom interfaces can have access to Task instance?

2018-03-17 Thread Jaikiran Pai
Thanks for the input, Stefan. I took your suggestion and exposed a API 
to get the Project on that custom interface. It doesn't/can't directly 
use the IntrospectionHelper support available to project components, 
since unlike nested elements of a task, this custom class can be plugged 
in something like:


classname="some.custom.class.implementing.an.task.specific.interface"/>


plus the fact that this custom class can reside in a classloader defined 
by nested  elements of this task.


-Jaikiran


On 13/03/18 3:36 PM, Stefan Bodewig wrote:

On 2018-03-13, Jaikiran Pai wrote:


I'm looking for some suggestion on whether it's a good/bad idea to
expose a method to custom user defined classes which takes a "Task"
object. This is in context of the JUnitLauncher task that I recently
added. It allows custom report formatters/listeners to be implemented
and the expectation is that such classes will implement the
TestResultFormatter interface that is (newly) part of Ant. This
interface exposes:
void setTask(Task currentExecutingTask)
so the implementations of this class have access to the current task
that's running. Right now, the only reason I exposed that Task
instance was to allow such implementation to issue log messages from
within the implementation like:

In that case I'd prefer the formatter implementation to extend
ProjectConponent or just provide a setProject(Project) method.

When your formatter is created by Ant - for example as a nested element
- something like

 public void addConfiguredFormatter(TestFormatter f)

then IntrospectionHelper will see the setProject method and invoke it
with a reference to the current project.

Stefan

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Re: User implementations of custom interfaces can have access to Task instance?

2018-03-13 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2018-03-13, Jaikiran Pai wrote:

> I'm looking for some suggestion on whether it's a good/bad idea to
> expose a method to custom user defined classes which takes a "Task"
> object. This is in context of the JUnitLauncher task that I recently
> added. It allows custom report formatters/listeners to be implemented
> and the expectation is that such classes will implement the
> TestResultFormatter interface that is (newly) part of Ant. This
> interface exposes:

> void setTask(Task currentExecutingTask)

> so the implementations of this class have access to the current task
> that's running. Right now, the only reason I exposed that Task
> instance was to allow such implementation to issue log messages from
> within the implementation like:

In that case I'd prefer the formatter implementation to extend
ProjectConponent or just provide a setProject(Project) method.

When your formatter is created by Ant - for example as a nested element
- something like

public void addConfiguredFormatter(TestFormatter f)

then IntrospectionHelper will see the setProject method and invoke it
with a reference to the current project.

Stefan

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