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Posted to dev@ant.apache.org by Dominique Devienne <DD...@lgc.com> on 2004/08/17 15:47:25 UTC
Request for more access to IntrospectionHelper-stored info
I'm working on a combination task/doclet to document Ant tasks/types.
Currently, Ant gives access to enumerations of names for attributes
and nested elements for a given type thru IntrospectionHelper, and
once one has a name, the Java Class for that attribute/nested-element,
but on the other hand it does not provide access to the actual method
used to set the attribute or add/create the nested elements.
My goal is to extract the Javadoc comments from the appropriate method
for a given attribute/nested-element, out of the doclet, but I don't
want to recode a brittle mapping from attribute name back to the
corresponding Java method, especially when Ant already has this info,
albeit with no public accessor.
Furthermore, the new Ant 1.6+ add[Configured](Class) extensions points
stored in addTypeMethods are again not accessible publicly at all.
Does anyone objects to adding access to this information? Thanks, --DD
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Re: Request for more access to IntrospectionHelper-stored info
Posted by Erik Hatcher <er...@ehatchersolutions.com>.
Dominique,
Have you looked deep into proposal/xdocs to see how its documentation
generation was done? How much of what you're doing is reinventing what
was done there? Sounds almost identical. I leveraged
IntrospectionHelper as well as the XDoclet object model to get all the
info I needed.
Erik
On Aug 17, 2004, at 9:47 AM, Dominique Devienne wrote:
> I'm working on a combination task/doclet to document Ant tasks/types.
>
> Currently, Ant gives access to enumerations of names for attributes
> and nested elements for a given type thru IntrospectionHelper, and
> once one has a name, the Java Class for that attribute/nested-element,
> but on the other hand it does not provide access to the actual method
> used to set the attribute or add/create the nested elements.
>
> My goal is to extract the Javadoc comments from the appropriate method
> for a given attribute/nested-element, out of the doclet, but I don't
> want to recode a brittle mapping from attribute name back to the
> corresponding Java method, especially when Ant already has this info,
> albeit with no public accessor.
>
> Furthermore, the new Ant 1.6+ add[Configured](Class) extensions points
> stored in addTypeMethods are again not accessible publicly at all.
>
> Does anyone objects to adding access to this information? Thanks, --DD
>
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