The (slow) trend is to modularize Ant. There will be some handlers in the core, but there also will be some additional libraries (with tasks, with handler, ...). http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/sandbox.html#Props%20-%20additional%20Property%20Resolver (currently during the vote for leaving the sandbox and releasing a 1.0 with Ant 1.8.0).
Jan >-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >Von: Raja Nagendra Kumar [mailto:[email protected]] >Gesendet: Montag, 5. Oktober 2009 16:43 >An: [email protected] >Betreff: Re: AW: AW: properties echo with absolute values > > >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/usin >g.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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>-- >>>View this message in context: >>>http://www.nabble.com/properties-echo-with-absolute-values-tp25 >>>704095p25710820.html >>>Sent from the Ant - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >>> >>>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>>For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> >> > >-- >View this message in context: >http://www.nabble.com/properties-echo-with-absolute-values-tp25 >704095p25752120.html >Sent from the Ant - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
