And http://ant.apache.org/manual-1.6beta/CoreTypes/selectors-program.html
Jan > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 11:10 AM > To: Ant Developers List > Subject: Re: Custom selector how-to... > > > Dominique Devienne wrote: > > >I have two apparently simple question about custom selectors: > > > >1) How can I access the Project associated to a selector? > > > > I can see no obvious way to access it, as unlike ProjectComponent > > deriving classes that can use getProject(), there's no such thing > > in BaseExtendSelector... > > > > > BaseExtendSelector extends BaseSelector extends DataType extends > ProjectComponent..... > > > I need to create a Path from a string for pre-Ant 1.6 > parametrization, > > and also create a DirectoryScanner, which also requires a Project. > > > > > There has been issues with ant core not setting the project > for custom > selectors early > enough to be useful. This has been fixed for ant 1.6, but > could be a problem > for ant 1.5. (Actually for any object that has got a public > setProject(Project), ant 1.6 > will attempt to call setProject(Project) on it as soon as possible). > > >2) Can selectors be id'd/refid'd like tasks/types? > > > > I must write a selector with an expensive up-front config phase > > (remember the DirectoryScanner above?) that I want to use in > > several different <fileset>s, so I'd rather avoid doing > the expensive > > up-front config N times... > > > > > See: > http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTypes/selectors.html#selectorselect > > Peter > > >Unless there are some ways I missed to do what I need as > described above, > >I fear I'll have to revert to writing a task instead of a selector... > > > >Sounds like deficiencies of the selector mechanism to me. Or am I > >just pushing the selector envelope too far? > > > >Thanks, --DD > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
