On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, peter reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 06 November 2003 10:02, Stefan Bodewig wrote: >> On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, peter reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > well there is an undocumented attribute ant-type >> >> we really should document it. > Yes... > > Note that when this feature was first disussed it was pointed out > that ant-type does not work for Type create<NestedElement>() methods > - like <src/> in javac. True. > It was assumed that one could add new methods - > add<NestedElement>(Type..) to get around this problem, and make > add<NestedElement> have a lower priorirty than > create<NestedElement>(). I never assumed that 8-) You can't replace all of the current createXYZ methods as some of them would return things that Ant's core wasn't able to create at all (inner classes for example) - or do special things like the Path creating methods that join all subelements. I'd prefer to document the limitation and probably live with explicitly noting that ant-type won't work for the nested elements that are affected. We'll also have to explain why <copy> <fileset ant-type="zipfileset" src="foo.zip" prefix="bar"/> </copy> won't work as expected (because <copy> unlike <zip> doesn't know anything about ZipFileSet and ZipFileSet is no drop-in replacement for FileSet). Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
