On 9/3/07, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CJ wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Hopefully someone can help me or point me in the right direction here. > > > > I have a custom Ant task which I want to use to invoke another command > > which isn't known at compilation time. It uses an approach very similar > > to Ant itself, in that it builds the command from RuntimeConfigurables/ > > UnknownElements. This all works but for running commands which have a > > prefix (such as my other custom commands). > > > > I want to be able to translate the prefix to a namespace uri that I can > > make the correct UnkownElement.setNamespace( uri ) call. > > > > For clarity, this is a simplified form of what I want to do. (I realize > > the example doesn't make a great deal of practical sense in this form; > > this is just for illustrative purposes, please humor me :) ). > > > > <project name="example" > > xmlns:myprefix="http://some.uri"; > > > > > <taskdef resource="some/path/task.properties" > > uri="http://some.uri"; > > classpath="mylib.jar" > > /> <!-- Supplying 'mytaskname' and 'taskrunner' --> > > > > <!-- Regular execution; example --> > > <myprefix:mytaskname ... /> > > > > <!-- Task runner; what I want to do --> > > <myprefix:taskrunner> > > <atask name="myprefix:mytaskname"> > > ... > > </atask> > > </myprefix:taskrunner> > > </project> > > > > Taskrunner is what I'm trying to get working, so it executes the task > > just as Ant would when parsing the xml form above it. I am parsing the > > 'myprefix' from the task name (atask's name attribute), but I don't > > know how to get the namespace 'http://some.uri' programmatically at > > this point. > > > > There's nothing in ant to do this yet, though you could probably write a > task (which we would gladly accept, esp if it came with docs and tests :), > This is something that needs to be in ant-core. At the moment the prefix namespace mapping is not retained. It can be a little complicated, as UEs can get copied and modified - macrodef for exmple. Peter.
> -- > 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] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
