Task.setTaskType

[Erik Hatcher <ja...@ehatchersolutions.com>]

Is this method intentionally package-scoped rather than public?  Just
curious.

What is it used for other than in output messages?

And shouldn't taskName be used instead in messages?

Thanks,
    Erik


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Re: Task.setTaskType

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Erik Hatcher <ja...@ehatchersolutions.com>
wrote:

> Is this method intentionally package-scoped rather than public?

intentionally.  task-type is what it has been called in the build file
as an element, task-name is the same, unless the user has specified
the taskname attribute, which ovverides the value.

> What is it used for other than in output messages?

It isn't used for output messages, task-name is.  At least in
DefautlBuildLogger.

It is used to identify which incarnation of a class has been asked
for, the only current use of which is to print deprecation warnings
(if you use ecpand to run unzip or javadoc2 to run javadoc).

Stefan

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