Gradle is great and I use it for most of my projects (and I've written some gradle plugins). However, Gradle is slowly moving towards a declarative style and I quite like the imperative style of Ant. It's just that AntBuilder is a bit too imperative as a build system. However, when extending it, adding support for targets like traditional Ant, and marrying it with the maven resolver ant tasks you get a nice, flexible build system. I'm just doing it for fun but I think it looks quite promising so far. The only major remaining thing I haven't quite figured out yet is how to handle multi-module projects in a nice way.
Best regards, Per On Tue, 20 May 2025 at 13:36, <to...@natusoft.se> wrote: > Hi again Per, > > Have you seen Gradle ? I believe that Gradle might provide what you are > trying to do. Personally I'm not a Gradle fan, but many are. > > Tommy Svensson > On 20 May 2025 at 10:38 +0200, Per Nyfelt <per.nyf...@nordnet.se>, wrote: > > Thanks Tommy, > My problem was in the context of a custom ant task. I found that if I let > go of the idea of "arbitrary additional content" and defined what the > different additional sections could be, it was quite easy to do. My > solution is here: > https://github.com/Alipsa/uso/blob/main/uso-tasks/src/main/groovy/se/alipsa/uso/tasks/CreatePom.groovy > in case anyone is interested. > > Best regards, > Per > > On Mon, 19 May 2025 at 14:01, <to...@natusoft.se> wrote: > >> Hello Per, >> >> I don't know of anything existing that does what you want. But, in Groovy >> you can easily define structures like JSON or XML (which both give you a >> structure but does so using different formats. >> >> Example: Map<String, Object> root = [ "id": "QAZ", "name" : "Nisse", ... >> ] >> >> This is a java.util.Map structure. Your code can then take this >> Map<String, Object> and convert to JSON or XML. But I don't know of >> anything existing that takes such a Map structure to XML. I would not be >> entirely surprised if such exists. >> >> In my current project I'm using the Groovy Map shortcut [ : ] to build >> structured information. In my case it will be converted to JSON and >> potentially other structured formats later. But as long as you have the >> information stored in some structured way it should be relatively easy to >> convert to XML. Reading both JSON and XML is by far more difficult than >> producing them. >> >> Best Regards, >> >> Tommy Svensson >> On 18 May 2025 at 20:38 +0200, Per Nyfelt <p...@alipsa.se>, wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I would like to have a user api that can handle the following: >> >> createXml(target: xmlFile, name: 'a test') { >> >> description('test xml') >> >> licenses { >> license('Apache License, Version 2.0', >> 'http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0') >> } >> >> } >> >> // description and licenses are arbitrary, it can be any structure that >> can be converted to XML >> >> I want the closure to behave as if it would be statements to a >> MarkupBuilder but I am unable to figure out how to do it. Can i convert >> the closure to a MarkupBuilder or process it with a MarkupBuilder >> somehow? Any ideas? >> >> Best regards >> >> Per >> >>
