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Posted to dev@ant.apache.org by Kev Jackson <ke...@it.fts-vn.com> on 2006/05/03 08:50:09 UTC

Antlib alias?

Hi,

I've been messing with some code today, and looking at antlibs, a 
typical declaration may be something like:

<antlib>
  <taskdef
    name="my_task"
    classname="org.apache.ant.my_task.Task1"
    />
...

</antlib>

I was wondering if there would be any usefulness in adding an 'alias' 
attribute, which could take a list of aliases.  This would allow an 
antlib to have an official name for a task, whilst still allowing the 
use of abbreviations (which is fairly common in unix land (--verbose/-v 
etc)).

<antlib>
  <taskdef
    name="my_task"
    alias="t, task, task1"
    classname="org.apache.ant.my_task.Task1"
    />
...

</antlib>

Any thoughts?

Kev

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Re: Antlib alias?

Posted by Jeffrey E Care <ca...@us.ibm.com>.
You can declare multiple taskdefs all pointing to the same impl. class, or 
you can declare it once & then use presetdef (I think).

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Hi,

I've been messing with some code today, and looking at antlibs, a 
typical declaration may be something like:

<antlib>
  <taskdef
    name="my_task"
    classname="org.apache.ant.my_task.Task1"
    />
...

</antlib>

I was wondering if there would be any usefulness in adding an 'alias' 
attribute, which could take a list of aliases.  This would allow an 
antlib to have an official name for a task, whilst still allowing the 
use of abbreviations (which is fairly common in unix land (--verbose/-v 
etc)).

<antlib>
  <taskdef
    name="my_task"
    alias="t, task, task1"
    classname="org.apache.ant.my_task.Task1"
    />
...

</antlib>

Any thoughts?

Kev

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