Thank you Jan, nice to know 1.8 has many things which we are looking to..

Also, would it be possible to have more default protocol handers such as
"toFile"  ,"toLocation" , "toURL" etc as built in ones. or more generically
name of the the method as protocol

Regards,
Nagendra

Jan.Materne wrote:
> 
> For upcoming Ant 1.8.0 there is a hook you can plugin for resolving
> properties.
> ${protocol:name} and a 'protocol'handler will convert 'name' to a String.
> 
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/using.html#propertyHelper
> 
> 
> Jan
> 
>>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>Von: Raja Nagendra Kumar [mailto:[email protected]] 
>>Gesendet: Freitag, 2. Oktober 2009 08:04
>>An: [email protected]
>>Betreff: Re: AW: properties echo with absolute values
>>
>>
>>Hi Jan,
>>
>>In our context, we are using <var> task to set this variable. 
>>Var does not
>>seem to support location. Properties read only-set only once 
>>approach would
>>not work with us, as this value would get chanced in each call to that
>>target.
>>
>>I saw there are some thing like property hooks which 
>>supporting ${toString:
>>xyz} kind of resolutions. It would be nice, if there are more 
>>such hooks -
>>say to call any method of that object. This avoids adding 
>>another explicit
>>property.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Nagendra
>>
>>
>>
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