We all have our favorites! :-) Mine is maven. Its structure works very well for me.
______________________ Tommy Svensson to...@natusoft.se On 21 May 2025 at 09:55 +0200, Per Nyfelt <per.nyf...@nordnet.se>, wrote: > 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 > > > > > >
