--- On Thu, 9/24/09, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote:
> From: Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> > Subject: Re: Feature request: ifbool/unlessbool > To: user@ant.apache.org > Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009, 5:27 AM > On 2009-09-24, Francis GALIEGUE > <f...@one2team.com> > wrote: > > > But ideally, I'd like to use these properties all the > time, with > > boolean values. Say, for example, if I have nomail set > to 1 or true, > > then no mail is sent; if it's 0 or false, then the > mail is sent. And > > the target would then read: > > > <target name="junit-send-report" > unlessbool="nomail"/> > > Ant 1.8.0[1] and its new PropertyHelper API will help you > here with the > plain if/unless attributes. > > unless will pass if the property is either not set at all > (current Ant > behavior) or is set and PropertyHelper expands it to > Boolean.FALSE. > > if will pass if the property is set to anything but > Boolean.FALSE. > > This only works if you are using a PropertyEvaluator that > returns > Boolean instances - and there currently is none, but it > would be trivial > to write one. > > Check out Ant's trunk if you want to experiment with it. > I was thinking, "wow, who did that?" but as it turns out, I did it. :P -Matt > Stefan > > [1] there still are a few details of changes in trunk that > need to be > hashed out before we can plan that release. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
