)o:  thanks.  I had looked at the setProperty method in the Property task
a little too quickly and missed the meaning of it.

cheesr
dim

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Diane Holt wrote:

> Looks like getUserProperties() will get you ant.file, ant.project.name,
> and ant.version, along with any properties defined on the command-line;
> getProperties() will get those set with the <property> tag (along with all
> the system ones as well).
> 
> Diane
> 
> --- Dmitri Colebatch <dim@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> > Hi list,
> > 
> > I've had a bit of a look in the archives with no success for this, but
> > if
> > I should be looking somewhere, be happy to be told (o:
> > 
> > I'm one of the developers in XDoclet, and am trying to extract
> > properties
> > from ant.  In one my execute method (well, a method called by the
> > execute
> > method), I have the following code:
> > 
> > 		Hashtable userProperties =
> > getOwningTarget().getProject().getUserProperties();
> > 		Enumeration keys = userProperties.keys();
> > 		while( keys.hasMoreElements() )
> > 		{
> > 			Object key = keys.nextElement();
> > 			System.out.println( "[" + key + "=" +
> > userProperties.get( key ) + "]" );
> > 		}
> > 
> > which I expect to see all the properties set using the <property>
> > task.  However, all I get is:
> > 
> > [ejbdoclet]
> > [ant.file=/export/home/dim/cvs/xdoclet/core/samples/script/build.xml]
> > [ejbdoclet] [ant.project.name=Test]
> > [ejbdoclet] [ant.version=Ant version 1.4 compiled on September 3 2001]
> > 
> > The build file is fairly normal, I have an init target with all the
> > properties which the ejbdoclet target (where this is executed) depends
> > on.  I see the init target go through in the output...
> > 
> > any ideas what I'm doing wrong? 
> > 
> > cheers
> > dim
> > 
> 
> 
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