Peter Reilly wrote:
Hi all, there is an undocumented feature in ant - the ant-type attribute. It was added when the original add(Type) code was put in.It allows one to replace a class (y) in addX(Class y) with a typedef as follows: <typedef classpathref="my-class-path" name = "mypath" classname="org.example.MyPath"/> <mytask> <path ant-type="mypath" path="."/> </mytask> I do not think that it is used anywhere as: 1) it is undocumented 2) it is hard to understand 3) add(Type) as been added to most tasks that need them4) it is not complete see: http://marc.info/?l=ant-dev&m=106854472219108&w=25) the ant 1.7 resources framework should be the way to handle the use-cases. I would like to remove the feature as it complicates the code of RuntimeConfigurable and IntrospectionHelper and makes it more difficult to add new features (for example to handle restricted types). I propose the following: 1) add a warning in ant 1.7.1 that is triggered if the feature is used - this should root out examples in the wild. 2) remove the code in ant 1.8.0.
I never knew it existed, and havent documented it either. Vote: +1: I agree with the proposal: [ +1 ] -1: I do not agree with the proposal: [ ] 0: I do not care either way: [ ] -- Steve Loughran http://www.1060.org/blogxter/publish/5 Author: Ant in Action http://antbook.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
