Wonderful, thank you for your responses.
They resolve my current problem
... and also an old one for ant4hg project, where the main task class
contains many many attributes !
2010/9/7 <jan.mate...@rzf.fin-nrw.de>
> >> Is it possible to define attribute name with dash ?
> >
> >Not with Ant's built-in reflection logic. Any attribute can only
> >consist of characters leagl inside a Java method name.
> >
> >You can define attributes with a dash when you implement
> >org.apache.tools.ant.DynamicAttribute or DynamicAttributeNS in which
> >case your setDynamicAttribute method will get invoked for any attribute
> >that does not directly map to a setter method.
>
> And a sample:
>
> <project>
> <javac srcdir="." destdir="." includeantruntime="true"/>
> <taskdef name="my" classname="MyTask" classpath="."/>
> <my normal="normal" with-dash="with-dash" unknown="unknown"
> unknown2="two"/>
> </project>
>
> import org.apache.tools.ant.Task;
> import org.apache.tools.ant.DynamicAttribute;
> import java.util.*;
>
> public class MyTask extends Task implements DynamicAttribute {
> String normal;
> String withDash;
> Map<String,String> otherData = new HashMap<String,String>();
>
> public void setNormal(String s) {
> this.normal = s;
> }
>
> public void setDynamicAttribute(String name, String value) {
> if (name.equals("with-dash")) {
> this.withDash = value;
> } else {
> otherData.put(name, value);
> }
> }
>
> public void execute() {
> log("normal : " + normal);
> log("with-dash: " + withDash);
> if (!otherData.isEmpty()) {
> for(String key : otherData.keySet()) {
> log("- " + key + "=" + otherData.get(key));
> }
> }
> }
> }
>
>
>
> Jan
>
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