Thank you Maarten, delegation strategies looks promising. I'll give it a go.
Regards, Per On Wed, 21 May 2025 at 11:18, Maarten Boekhold <boekh...@gmx.com> wrote: > Hi Per, > > Getting back to your original question: have you looked at the closure > delegation strategy? > > https://groovy-lang.org/closures.html#_delegation_strategy > > Unless I misunderstood your problem, I think this might help you to > 'delegate' property and method access to a MarkupBuilder instance? > > Maarten > > On May 21, 2025 11:47:39 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 >>>> >>>> >
