Has anyone written an ant task by extending Task

[Malik, Yousuff M]

I am trying to write a custom ant task by extending Task. 

My task needs to read a string, parse it and save the value in a property.

I have completed the reading string and the parsing part. I don't know how to set the 
value in a property. Can anyone please help me  with this

This is my Class

package com.erac.arch.prod.statusweb;
import org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Property;
import org.apache.tools.ant.Task;
import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException;

public class BuildLabelParser extends Task{     

        protected String value;
        protected String name;
        
        public void setValue(String value){
                //Strip out the build number from the ant label BUILD_LABEL
                String temp2 = value.substring(value.indexOf("_")+1);
                //Convert it into the format x.x.x.x from x.x.x_x
                value = temp2.substring(0,temp2.indexOf("_"))+"."+ 
temp2.substring(temp2.indexOf("_")+1);       
                //this.setName(this.value);
                System.out.println("Value is " + value);
        }
        
        public String getValue() {
        return value;
    }

        public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }
    
    public String toString() {
        return value == null ? "" : value;
    }

This is how I invoke it in the ant script

<target name="test.parser">
                <taskdef name="buildlabelparser" 
classname="com.erac.arch.prod.statusweb.BuildLabelParser">
                        <classpath>
                                <pathelement location="${libDir}/anttasks.jar"/>
                        </classpath>
                </taskdef>

                <buildlabelparser name="xyz" value="LRDGUI_2.0.2_3"/>

</target>

The output after I execute the target

U:\arch_vob\Products\lrdGUI\antbuild>ant test.parser
Buildfile: build.xml

test.parser:
[buildlabelparser] Value is 2.0.2.3
     [echo] LRDGUI_2.0.2_3

Any help would be appreciated?

Regards
Yousuff Malik
ERAC



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