What is it you are trying to achieve? I have used a comma-separated
string property, split it and iterated over it (using ant-contrib).
Would that work for you rather than writing a custom task?
hth,
Vijay
markww wrote:
Hmm I just read through a custom Task tutorial, but I don't think they'll
help, because you can't specify a variable number of attributes, they must
be known in advance. In the examples I've read, your custom Task class has
to have getters and setters for all the attributes you want to use. But if I
want to let my user specify an arbitrary number of attributes, I don't think
that's possible... please correct me if I'm wrong!
Thanks
mgainty wrote:
Hey Mark-
no declaration of property array as far as I can see you can feel free to
create your own as in this example
public class MyTask extends Task {
private List conditions = new ArrayList();
public void add(Condition c) {
conditions.add(c);
}
public void execute() {
// iterator over the conditions
}
}
One may define and use this class like this:
<taskdef name="mytask" classname="MyTask" classpath="classes"/>
<typedef name="condition.equals"
classname="org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.conditions.Equals"/>
<mytask>
<condition.equals arg1="${debug}" arg2="true"/>
</mytask>
There are a number of hidden implementation details such as which
constructors are created and used but the
mechanics of creating the stub are here..more info available at
http://ant.apache.org/manual/develop.html
Maybe some of the committers can weigh in???
Martin
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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:14:33 -0700
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Subject: Property array?
Hi,
Is there any way to make an array property in Ant? I want to write some
stuff to a file based on an array property. Something like the user
enters
this:
<property array name = "colors">
<val = "red">
<val = "green">
<val = "blue">
</property array>
for (i = 0; i< ${colors}; i++) {
<echo file="myfile.txt" append="yes" message="${colors[i]}" />
}
Yeah I'm just making the syntax up as I go along - anything like that?
Thanks
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