Ant custom task

[Rajiv Jaitly <Ra...@lchclearnet.com>]

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Hi, 

I am writing an ant task that should work on the files selected in the ant script (fileset). How would i pass a Fileset to this task  (means method signature) ? any example will be highly appreciated. 

Will this task inherit classpath specified in the ant script ? How would i get hold of the classpath in the task, i need this to check if a particular file is specified in the classpath.

Thanks

Raj


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Re: Ant custom task

[Yves Martin <yv...@elca.ch>]

"Rajiv Jaitly" <Ra...@lchclearnet.com> writes:

> Hi, 
>
> I am writing an ant task that should work on the files selected in the
> ant script (fileset). How would i pass a Fileset to this task  (means
> method signature) ? any example will be highly appreciated. 
>
> Will this task inherit classpath specified in the ant script ? How would
> i get hold of the classpath in the task, i need this to check if a
> particular file is specified in the classpath.

 I would have ask such a question at dev@ant.apache.org

 To support filesets (you can ues a list or a vector):

    /** List of filesets */
    private List filesets = new ArrayList();

    /**
     * Add a fileset object in the filter.
     *
     * @param fs a <code>FileSet</code> value
     */
    public void addFileSet(FileSet fs) {
        filesets.add(fs);
    }


 Your task (if not in ant lib directory) will be loaded in a dedicated
 AntClassLoader by typedef. You will see the Ant JVM classpath, plus the
 classpath specified in typedef and that's all.

 If needed, your task should have a specific 'classpath' attribute to work with
 it. The method signature will be: addClassPath(Path p)

 Hope this help
-- 
Yves Martin


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