>I have a property value (string) that I receive from a command
>line argument as lowercase text.
>
>On some platforms I need it to be converted to Title case, on
>others I need it to be converted to UPPER case before passing it on to
my
>build tools.
>
>Is there a preferred method to perform case conversions in ant scripts?
I would use a <scriptdef>.
Jan
<project>
<scriptdef name="convert" language="javascript">
<attribute name="property"/>
<attribute name="upper"/>
<attribute name="title"/>
<element name="fileset" type="fileset"/>
<![CDATA[
// Access to <attribute>s with default values
property = attributes.get("property");
upper = getDefault("upper", property + ".upper");
title = getDefault("title", property + ".title");
// compute the new values
valueOrg = project.getProperty(property);
valueUpc = valueOrg.toUpperCase();
valueTit = valueOrg.substring(0,1).toUpperCase() +
valueOrg.substring(1);
// store the values
project.setNewProperty(upper, valueUpc);
project.setNewProperty(title, valueTit);
// Helper function
function getDefault(propName, defaultValue) {
x = attributes.get(propName);
if (x == null) {
return defaultValue;
} else {
return x;
}
}
]]>
</scriptdef>
<property name="one" value="one"/>
<property name="two" value="two"/>
<convert property="one" upper="upper" title="title"/>
<echo>
one : ${one}
upper : ${upper}
title : ${title}
</echo>
<convert property="two"/>
<echoproperties prefix="two"/>
</project>
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