Jose Alberto Fernandez wrote:
From: Jack Woehr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Steve Loughran wrote:
Even if you could retro-fit every task out there with getters,
-what about overloaded set operatons? which one should
the get return?
-what about property assignments. Tasks get their setters with
properties expanded.
Hmm. Ah, well. Writing out the project seems to be a fairly obvious
functionality in comparison
to some of the exotic functionality of Ant. I guess it's just one of
those things which in hindsight
the design should have accomodated, but which are difficult
to retrofit
given that the design
did not so accomodate.
Maybe we are looking at the problem the wrong way.
What is what people want to do?
Do they want to programatically create some project and then
as an after thought they decide to serialize it to XML? (which will not
work);
Or do they want to create a project programmatically with the intention
of serializing it to XML.
If the later, then the obvious thing to do us to not create tasks
directly
but to create our wrapping objects. Actually, you could just as well
use Jdom to compose the XML and then either serialize it into XML
or produce the Project object out of it (we just need to generate SAX
events
out of it).
So, maybe there is a way to do it that is actually more natural for
someone
that just knows the ANT-XML syntax.
Jose Alberto
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hi. i'm getting back to this now, and saw that there were a few more
responses. to answer your question -- it's the latter. i've gone the xml
route. the problem is that i have many modules interacting to build a
project, and it's difficult, though not impossible, to do this with DOM,
as i am now. it's not the DOM that makes it hard -- but the lack of
typing, thus the desire to use the java objects, with their convenient
accessors and access to the current project structure and type safety.
jon
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