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Custom task cannot use custom types due to different classloaders

           Summary: Custom task cannot use custom types due to different
                    classloaders
           Product: Ant
           Version: 1.5Beta2
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows NT/2K
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Major
          Priority: Other
         Component: Core
        AssignedTo: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: wr0ngway@yahoo.com


First I create a custom type and a custom task, and place them in the same jar.
 Then, in my build script, for each of those I specify a custom classpath
pointing to the same jar in their respective taskdef/typedef.  If in my task I
then try to use the type by casting a reference to the types Type, I get a
ClassCastException because the task and type are defined in different
classloaders, and thus the Task's use of the type's Type is going to be an
entirely different class.  e.g:

//FooType.java
//-------------

package com.foo;

import org.apache.tools.ant.types.DataType;

public class FooType extends DataType
{

	private String foo;
	
	public FooType()
	{
		super();
		System.out.println("FooType ctor");
	}

	public void setFoo(String foo)
	{
		this.foo = foo;
		project.log("FooType setFoo", project.MSG_WARN);
	}

	public String toString()
	{
		return foo;
	}
}

//BlahTask.java
//-------------

package com.foo;

import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException;
import org.apache.tools.ant.Task;
import org.apache.tools.ant.types.Reference;

public class BlahTask extends Task
{
	private FooType foo;
	
	public BlahTask()
	{
		super();
		System.out.println("BlahTask ctor");
	}

	public void setFooref(Reference fooref)
	{
		if (fooref != null)
		{
			Object thefoo = fooref.getReferencedObject(project);
			if (thefoo != null)
				this.foo = (FooType) thefoo;  //ClassCastEx here
		}
	}

	public void execute() throws BuildException
	{
		project.log("Blah", project.MSG_INFO);
	}

}

build.xml
---------

<project name="antbug" default="all">

	<taskdef name="blah" classname="com.foo.BlahTask" classpath="classes"/>
	<typedef name="footype" classname="com.foo.FooType" classpath="classes"/>
	
	<footype id="somefoo" foo="foobar"/>
	
	<target name="all">
		<echo message="Howdy"/>
		<blah fooref="somefoo"/>
	</target>

</project>

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