[ANTidote] Introspection implemented and updated ToDo's

[Christoph Wilhelms <Ch...@impress.com>]

Hi ALL!

I hope there is still some "ANTidote-Audience" listening ;). I've just
replaced the DTD-Defined Elements and Attributes by an Ant-Standard
introspection mechanism. Sorry, Nick, Craig and Erik: The DTD's aren't
necessary anymore IMHO. Have a look! Oh, and don't panic: I did not delete
the DTD-Stuff. It's just unused ATM.

At this point I'd like to give BIG CREDITS to Setfan. With his
IntrospectionHelper it was nearly "piece-of-cake" to implement :). GREAT
WORK! IT's one of the fastest reflection-code I've seen!

Of course this has just been a first step!

Short-run ToDos are:

- Cleanup the introspection code in ACEFactory (MY Task ;))
- Enable registring of custom tasks/jars/default.properties etc. (I can
handle this, too)
- Make the attributes aware of their type.
- implement attribute-editors for many of the types.
  - simple types (Sring, Integer, Boolean)
  - reference types
  - list/custom types
- Dayly/Weekly builds via Gump
- Deploy a WebStart-Version of ANTidote from ant.apache.org (Stefan, didn't
you want to contribute ;)).

I think, we get closer to a 1.0 now. I could really need some contributers
for the attribute editor implemetation... I think it'll take most of the
time - even if it's interesting enough I wont be able to manage shortly...

Feedback welcome :)

Cheers,
Chris

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Re: [ANTidote] Introspection implemented and updated ToDo's

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

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Christoph Wilhelms
<Ch...@impress.com> wrote:

> - Deploy a WebStart-Version of ANTidote from ant.apache.org (Stefan,
> didn't you want to contribute ;)).

What do you want me to do?  If you say "write GUI code", the answer
will be no ;-)

Stefan

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Re: [ANTidote] Introspection implemented and updated ToDo's

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

On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 09:35  AM, Christoph Wilhelms wrote:
> Hi ALL!
>
> I hope there is still some "ANTidote-Audience" listening ;). I've just
> replaced the DTD-Defined Elements and Attributes by an Ant-Standard
> introspection mechanism. Sorry, Nick, Craig and Erik: The DTD's aren't
> necessary anymore IMHO. Have a look! Oh, and don't panic: I did not 
> delete
> the DTD-Stuff. It's just unused ATM.

No apologies necessary - but I think you'll find that you might want 
richer information about the tasks than you'll get with 
IntrospectionHelper.  For example:

- Do you know the name mappings of the tasks?  If you are looking in 
default.properties then you do, but some of those task mappings in 
there are deprecated.  My metadata will tell you which those are.

- Do you get the descriptions of the attributes/elements?  With the 
proposal/xdocs you do.

- Will you be able to tell which attributes/elements are required?  
With proposal/xdocs you'll get that information (if we are rigorous 
about defining it).

- for EnumeratedAttribute's - are you getting the values allowed?  This 
would be easy for you to implement if you haven't already, but 
proposal/xdocs gives you that information.

- Will you be able to plug in other task libraries that are outside of 
Ant and get all of the above information too?  Thats the plan with 
proposal/xdocs.

In other words - IntrospectionHelper is great - proposal/xdocs uses it 
- but its not enough information, I don't think.

Thoughts?

	Erik




>
> At this point I'd like to give BIG CREDITS to Setfan. With his
> IntrospectionHelper it was nearly "piece-of-cake" to implement :). 
> GREAT
> WORK! IT's one of the fastest reflection-code I've seen!
>
> Of course this has just been a first step!
>
> Short-run ToDos are:
>
> - Cleanup the introspection code in ACEFactory (MY Task ;))
> - Enable registring of custom tasks/jars/default.properties etc. (I can
> handle this, too)
> - Make the attributes aware of their type.
> - implement attribute-editors for many of the types.
>   - simple types (Sring, Integer, Boolean)
>   - reference types
>   - list/custom types
> - Dayly/Weekly builds via Gump
> - Deploy a WebStart-Version of ANTidote from ant.apache.org (Stefan, 
> didn't
> you want to contribute ;)).
>
> I think, we get closer to a 1.0 now. I could really need some 
> contributers
> for the attribute editor implemetation... I think it'll take most of 
> the
> time - even if it's interesting enough I wont be able to manage 
> shortly...
>
> Feedback welcome :)
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
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