Maybe it is better not to write the project at all, but construct it on a fly and execute it right a way. Of cause, if project creation is slow, you might want to cache the result. In that case, maybe you can log all actions in your own format and do not create ANT XML.
- Alexey. On 8/6/05, jonathan gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > are there libraries i've somehow missed in the ant api that allow me to > take a Project object i've built programmatically and write it as an > antfile to some OutputStream? > > to give some context: as part of our buildsystem, i'm pulling packages > and setting up directories and workspaces (using ivy and the like), and > want to generate antfiles to do the builds. these antfiles need to > contain (or import) the <path> objects inferred from the ivy pull. at > the moment, i'm just building the antfile as a org.w3c.dom.Document, but > would prefer to just do something like: > > Project proj = new Project(); > Path classPath = createClassPath( ... ); > ProjectWriter pw = new ProjectWriter(); > pw.writeProject( proj, someOutputStream ); > > but i don't see an easy way in the ant api to do this right now. if it's > not there, and i'm missing it, is there interest in having me start some > work on it? > > incidentally, i tried searching for an answer to this question on some > search engines, but the search terms make it a bit difficult, since > searches for things like 'antfile writer', 'ant file writer', 'ant > project marshaller' and 'ant project serializer' give results more about > writing ant tasks (ie, 'joe the "ant" task "writer" ... ) and xml > processing in general. anyway, i apologize if this has already been > discussed, and would be happy to have a pointer to that previous > discussion if such exists... > > > jon > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Alexey N. Solofnenko trelony at gmail.com home: http://trelony.cjb.net/ Pleasant Hill, CA (GMT-8 hours usually) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
