getUserProperty and getProperty

[li...@bitfaeule.net]

Hi folks,

What is the exact difference between the API-calls  getUserProperty and
getProperty. 
And:
What is the exact difference between the API-calls  setUserProperty and
setProperty. 
When ist advised to use which?

I'm a bit confused. I am writing my own tasks and I have started to use
getUserProperty because it did what I wanted but I didn't know that
[s|g]etProperty existed.

Thanks for enlightenment.

-jacques

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Re: getUserProperty and getProperty

[Peter Reilly <pe...@apache.org>]

User properties are those specified on the command line. They are always
inherited when across <ant/> boundaries.

You should use project.setNewProperty() to set a normal property. - this
maintains property imutablity.
project.getProperty() is used to retrieve the value of a property (this may
be a normal property or a user property).

An example of setting properties is in 
src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/CheckSum.java

Peter


lists@bitfaeule.net wrote:

>Hi folks,
>
>What is the exact difference between the API-calls  getUserProperty and
>getProperty. 
>And:
>What is the exact difference between the API-calls  setUserProperty and
>setProperty. 
>When ist advised to use which?
>
>I'm a bit confused. I am writing my own tasks and I have started to use
>getUserProperty because it did what I wanted but I didn't know that
>[s|g]etProperty existed.
>
>Thanks for enlightenment.
>
>-jacques
>
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