Re: cvs commit: ant/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs P reSetDefTest.java

[Peter Reilly <pe...@corvil.com>]

Dominique Devienne wrote:

>Is the magic ant-type attribute described anywhere Peter?
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No,
  Well it is on the dev-ant mailing list ~july 2003.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-dev&m=105846981518008&w=2

>It obviously allows polymorphism without using id/refid,
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Yes

>but when/how can it be used? Is it part of 1.6? Thanks, --DD
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Any addX(Y) or addConfiguredX(Y) but not createX() method.
It is part of 1.6, but it is undocumented. (I am not too sure it is
a good idea..., too many createX()s are out there).

Peter

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: peterreilly@apache.org [mailto:peterreilly@apache.org]
>>  Log:
>>  Allow presetdef'ed types to be used with the ant-type attribute
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>>  +  <target name="antTypeTest">
>>  +    <taskdef name="anttypetest"
>>  +
>>classname="org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.PreSetDefTest$AntTypeTest"
>>  +             classpathref="test-classes"/>
>>  +    <presetdef name="java.fileset">
>>  +      <fileset>
>>  +        <include name="**/*.java"/>
>>  +      </fileset>
>>  +    </presetdef>
>>  +
>>  +    <anttypetest>
>>  +      <fileset ant-type="java.fileset" dir="."/>
>>  +      <configured ant-type="java.fileset" dir="."/>
>>  +    </anttypetest>
>>  +  </target>
>>    
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