This is AWESOME
This is something I have been looking for in a long time.
Using a slighty moded bsh (com.ibm->org.apache), this
also works with ant 1.6 nightly.
Peter
On Friday 06 June 2003 15:53, Dawid Weiss wrote:
> Dear ANT community,
>
> I thought one day: maybe it would be fun if I could define ANT tasks INSIDE
>
> the ANT script that is being executed? So it could look like this:
> > <!-- Define an embedded task and use it immediately -->
> > <target name="example" depends="prepare">
> >
> > <!-- define the task -->
> > <embeddedtaskdef name="counterTask"><![CDATA[
> > String message;
> > int min;
> > int max;
> >
> > void setMin(int min) {
> > // note how 'global' is used instead of 'this'
> > // global scope refers to the task instance anyway.
> > global.min = min;
> > }
> >
> > void setMax(int max) {
> > global.max = max;
> > }
> >
> > void setMessage(String message) {
> > global.message = message;
> > }
> >
> > void execute() {
> > if (message != null)
> > System.out.print(message);
> > for (int i=min;i<max;i++) {
> > System.out.print(i);
> > if (i+1 != max) System.out.print(",");
> > }
> > }
> > ]]></embeddedtaskdef>
> >
> > <!-- use the defined task right away! -->
> > <counterTask min="0" max="10" message="The numbers from 0 to 10 are:
> > " /> <counterTask min="5" max="20" message="And the numbers from 5 to 20
> > are: " /> </target>
>
> I've played with BSH and BCEL and the solution can be found at:
>
> http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/dweiss/index.php/projects/bsh-binding/index.xml
>?lang=en
>
> I personally find it quite a useful task, even though it started purely as
> a toy and a mind-exerciser :)
>
> Regards,
> Dawid
>
> _______________________
> Dawid Weiss, http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/dweiss
> Laboratory of Intelligent Decision Support Systems, Poznan UT, Poland
>
>
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