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Posted to dev@ant.apache.org by Ja...@rzf.fin-nrw.de on 2006/04/03 08:51:08 UTC

AW: best approach for a custom task?

Maybe just a <copy> with <filterreaders> ....
http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTypes/filterchain.html#tailfilter


Jan
 

>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>Von: Matt Benson [mailto:gudnabrsam@yahoo.com] 
>Gesendet: Freitag, 31. März 2006 20:41
>An: Ant Developers List
>Betreff: Re: best approach for a custom task?
>
>Hmm... <for> from ant-contrib?
>
>-Matt
>
>--- Nick Davis <ni...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> 
>> I don't monitor this newsgroup, so I am not sure if the question is 
>> appropriate for it.  I apologize if it is inappropriate.
>> 
>> I'm creating a few ANT tasks that I would like to use to modify the 
>> contents of text files.
>> 
>> I thought I would create one task that would contain the 
>other tasks.  
>> That task would accept a fileset, run the other task for each file.
>> 
>> For example:
>> <my_macro>
>>     <fileset dir="${project-dir}">
>>         <include name="/**/*.txt"/>
>>     </fileset>
>>     <setPosition position="5" />
>>     <insertText text="HEADER: " />
>>     <insertText text="${currentDate}" /> </my_macro>
>> 
>> But I believe I would have to declare each subtask, so I wouldn't be 
>> able to easily add the core tasks.
>>  
>> Is there a better approach? 
>> 
>> Any help you could provide me would be greatly appreciated.
>> 
>> Kind Regards,
>> Nick
>> 
>> 
>> 
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