Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-ant-dev-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 94243 invoked from network); 22 Mar 2002 16:41:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nagoya.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.131) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 22 Mar 2002 16:41:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 7978 invoked by uid 97); 22 Mar 2002 16:40:51 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 7961 invoked by uid 97); 22 Mar 2002 16:40:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Ant Developers List" Reply-To: "Ant Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 7949 invoked from network); 22 Mar 2002 16:40:50 -0000 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: costinm owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 07:28:54 -0800 (PST) From: X-X-Sender: To: Ant Developers List Subject: Re: Exporting a Project Instance In-Reply-To: <014d01c1d13d$fe3d3940$0100a8c0@jose> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Jose Alberto Fernandez wrote: > > I don't think its quite that simple.... how would such a framework get > > attribute values and such to reconstruct the XML? There are typically no > > getters on Ant tasks to return back attributes and sub-elements. > > > > And also, keep in mind that an Ant task does not necessarily extend Task.... > > the only requirement to being an Ant task is implementing an execute() > > method! > > > Very true. > > Notice that if we were to keep the syntactic information arround in RuntimeConfigurable > like we discussed in the past. Then it would be very easy to do. Since the UnknownElement > tree is all uninterpreted info. Yes, and it would also save the original property ( with ${} in it ), not the processed one. ( I have a very bad week, I'll commit some code for RuntimeConfigurable in proposal as soon as I get free ) Costin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: