Macrodef: default for optional element

["Dick, Brian E." <Br...@FMR.com>]

Is there a way to specify a default for an element in a macrodef? Here
is a simplified example.

<macrodef name="mycopy"/>
   <attribute name="dir"/>
   <attribute name="todir"/>
   <attribute name="value"/>
   <element name="cpyfileset" implicit="true" optional="yes"/>
   <sequential>
      <copy taskname="mycopy" todir="@{todir}">
         <fileset dir="@{dir}">
            <cpyfileset/>
         </fileset>

         <filterset>
            <filter token="ATOKEN" value="@{value}"/>
         </filterset>
      </copy>
   </sequential>
</macrodef

I want to invoke the above macro with the following.

   <mycopy dir="./source" todir="./build" value="test"/>
      <include name="afile.xml"/>
   </mycopy>

   <mycopy dir="./source" todir="./build" value="test"/>

The second invocation above should effectively work like

   <mycopy dir="./source" todir="./build" value="test"/>
      <include name="**/*.*"/>
   </mycopy>

-----Original Message-----
From: Rebhan, Gilbert [mailto:Gilbert.Rebhan@huk-coburg.de] 
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 10:10 AM
To: Ant Users List
Subject: RE: Improving Tasks



Hi,

-----Original Message-----
From: Rhino [mailto:rhino1@sympatico.ca]
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 3:36 PM
To: ant-user
Subject: Improving Tasks


/*
1. Provide for a masked input field so that it could be used to prompt
for a password that would remain   unreadable to anyone looking over the
users shoulder. (I envision adding a 'mask="true"' parameter to make
that possible with the default for 'mask' being 'false'.) 
*/

There's already a task = Kasisoft.

"Task allowing to run a dialog within a build used to setup some
properties. This way you can fill a property with the input of a user."

The given url on Ant site 

http://www.kasisoft.de/build/ant/interactive/ 

is not working anymore (404), but i could mail it to you, if you're
interested

It's easy to add a "masked" (******) password field.

/* 
2. I'm thinking about adding the capability of having a radio button
group and/or drop down lists so that there are some additional ways for
users to provide input.

The problem here is that I haven't any real idea how to go about this.  
*/

Could possibly also be done with expanding the original kasisoft task ?

btw =

The license for the kasisoft task is given as LGPL.
I'm no specialist for license, does anyone know the details about LGPL :

May i give it to someone else, may i change it the way i like ?

Regards, Gilbert

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