Wrapping an existing core Ant task

Tony Morris Mon, 13 Dec 2004 03:25:49 -0800

I am attempting to write an Ant task that wraps the org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Java task. I am having a problem in determining how it is intended by the Ant API to execute tasks manually. For example, if I call org.apache.tools.ant.tasksdefs.Java.execute(), I receive a NullPointerException*. Is there a standard way to invoke existing tasks through the Ant API? Obviously the Ant framework does some setting up before calling execute(), hence the reason for the failure. Is there an Ant API such as TaskExecuter.execute(Task)? Assistance is most appreciated.

Please see the following test case which attempts to illustrate my objective in a trivial manner:

package org;

import org.apache.tools.ant.Task;
import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException;
import org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Java;

public class Hello extends Task
{
   private Java j;
   private String hello;

   public Hello()
   {
       j = new Java();
   }

   public void setHello(String hello)
   {
       this.hello = hello;
   }

   public void execute()
   {
       if(j == null)
       {
           throw new BuildException("j is null");
       }

       j.createArg().setValue(hello);
       j.setClassname("org.SayHello");
       j.setFork(true);
       j.execute();
   }
}

/*

<target name="sayhello">
        <taskdef name="sayhello" classname="org.Hello" 
classpathref="builds.path"/>

        <sayhello hello="World"/>
</target>

*build.xml:163: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:373) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:341) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:369) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1214) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1062) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:673) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:188) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:196) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:55) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.log(Task.java:346) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Java.executeJava(Java.java:137) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Java.execute(Java.java:83) at org.Hello.execute(Hello.java:32) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:275) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:364) ... 8 more --- Nested Exception --- java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.log(Task.java:346) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Java.executeJava(Java.java:137) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Java.execute(Java.java:83) at org.Hello.execute(Hello.java:32) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:275) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:364) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:341) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:369) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1214) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1062) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:673) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:188) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:196) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:55)

*/


Tony Morris
Gold Coast, Australia

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