Yep. I have a working example that does that. The remaining problem is that you
have to call the and tasks directly and pass around the project, etc. The
eventual goal is to leverage the infrastructure build in Java for the XML
driven ANT from Jython (or another language...)
-jonathan
--- "Albrecht, Matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> or even more succinctly:
> for a in args.keys():
> setattr( t, a, args[a] )
> which turns your wrapper calls into:
>
> twrapper('echo', message='hello world')
> twrapper('delete', quiet=1, dir=File('todir'))
> twrapper('mkdir', dir=File("todir"))
> twrapper('copy', file=File("fromfile"), todir=File("todir"))
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: peter reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 4:59 AM
> > To: Ant Developers List
> > Subject: Re: Ant scripting from Jython.
> >
> >
> > jython does support named parameters, one
> > can do some bizarre stuff:
> >
> > <script language="jython">
> > from java.io import File
> > def twrapper(taskname, **args):
> > t = project.createTask(taskname)
> > for a in args.keys():
> > exec("t.%s = %s" % (a, args[a]))
> > t.execute()
> >
> > twrapper('echo', message="'hello world'")
> > twrapper('delete', quiet="1", dir="File('todir')")
> > twrapper('mkdir', dir='File("todir")')
> > twrapper('copy', file='File("fromfile")', todir='File("todir")')
> > </script>
> >
> > output:
> > hello world
> > Deleting directory /home/preilly/proj/learning/outofdate/todir
> > Created dir: /home/preilly/proj/learning/outofdate/todir
> > Copying 1 file to /home/preilly/proj/learning/outofdate/todir
> >
> > Peter.
> >
> > On Friday 13 June 2003 06:23, Conor MacNeill wrote:
> > > Hi Duncan,
> > >
> > > You all might like to look at two recent threads in ant-dev
> > and ant-user
> > > that are somewhat related to this topic.
> > >
> > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-dev&m=105516662409107&w=2
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-user&m=105491111510585&w=2
> > >
> > > Instead of the "script driving Ant tasks" approach,
> > <scriptdef> is more
> > > like a script within a task. As such, the scripts would
> > potentially be more
> > > focussed on the things that need to be scripty rather than
> > doing the whole
> > > build in the script. After all, IMHO,
> > >
> > > copyWrapper("C:\\java\\jython_ant\\src\HelloJython.java",
> > > "C:\\java\\jython_ant\\temp", project)
> > >
> > > doesn't end up any "better" than
> > >
> > > <copy file="C:\java\jython_ant\src\HelloJython.java"
> > > todir="C:\java\jython_ant\temp"/>
> > >
> > > In fact because the attributes are named, the XML is easier
> > to understand
> > > as it does not rely on implicit position-dependent
> > parameters. IT's more
> > > redable which is probably counter-intuitive.
> > >
> > > In terms of Jonathan's original need for wrappers, there is some
> > > possibility that they could be auto-generated using the Ant
> > introspection
> > > facilities. One problem is that most Ant tasks support a
> > multitude of
> > > attributes. As I said above, XML is quite nice there as it allows
> > > attributes to be named. You only provide the attributes you
> > want and mostly
> > > everything else takes sensible defaults. In the copy
> > example, think about
> > > what the wrapper would look like that exposes all the
> > capabilities of
> > > <copy>
> > > (http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/copy.html). I think
> > it could be
> > > quite ugly unless your scripting language also supports
> > named attributes -
> > > I have limited experience with Jython, so I can't say.
> > >
> > > BTW, I once experimented with converting build files to
> > scripts (code
> > > actually). I wrote an XSL template to turn a simple Ant
> > build into a Java
> > > program. It was effectively a build compiler (part of
> > Mutant's botostrap
> > > process).
> > >
> > > Here's the XSL
> > >
> http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/ant/proposal/mutant/build/Atti
> >c/bootstrap.xsl?rev=1.3&content-type=text/plain
> >
> > You can see the result here.
> >
> http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/ant/proposal/mutant/src/java/bootstrap/or
> >g/apache/ant/builder/Attic/MutantBuilder.java?rev=1.7&content-type=text/vnd
> .
> >viewcvs-markup
> >
> > Not that useful but a bit more grist for this mill. It certainly showed me
> > that it is hard to cram the expressiveness of the XML approach into method
> > calls. I had to limit myself to a very narrow subset of tasks and their
> > usage patterns.
> >
> > Conor
> >
> >
> >
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