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From: peter reilly <peter.reilly@corvil.com>
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To: Ant Developers List <dev@ant.apache.org>
Subject: Re: Ant scripting from Jython.
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 10:59:29 +0100
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jython does support named parameters, one
can do some bizarre stuff:

  <script language=3D"jython">
from java.io import File
def twrapper(taskname, **args):
  t =3D project.createTask(taskname)
  for a in args.keys():
    exec("t.%s =3D %s" % (a, args[a]))
  t.execute()

twrapper('echo', message=3D"'hello world'")
twrapper('delete', quiet=3D"1", dir=3D"File('todir')")
twrapper('mkdir', dir=3D'File("todir")')
twrapper('copy', file=3D'File("fromfile")', todir=3D'File("todir")')
  </script>

output:
hello world
Deleting directory /home/preilly/proj/learning/outofdate/todir
Created dir: /home/preilly/proj/learning/outofdate/todir
Copying 1 file to /home/preilly/proj/learning/outofdate/todir

Peter.

On Friday 13 June 2003 06:23, Conor MacNeill wrote:
> Hi Duncan,
>
> You all might like to look at two recent threads in ant-dev and ant-use=
r
> that are somewhat related to this topic.
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Dant-dev&m=3D105516662409107&w=3D2
>
> and
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Dant-user&m=3D105491111510585&w=3D2
>
> Instead of the "script driving Ant tasks" approach, <scriptdef> is more
> like a script within a task. As such, the scripts would potentially be =
more
> focussed on the things that need to be scripty rather than doing the wh=
ole
> build in the script. After all, IMHO,
>
> copyWrapper("C:\\java\\jython_ant\\src\HelloJython.java",
> "C:\\java\\jython_ant\\temp", project)
>
> doesn't end up any "better" than
>
> <copy file=3D"C:\java\jython_ant\src\HelloJython.java"
> =09  todir=3D"C:\java\jython_ant\temp"/>
>
> In fact because the attributes are named, the XML is easier to understa=
nd
> as it does not rely on implicit position-dependent parameters. IT's mor=
e
> redable which is probably counter-intuitive.
>
> In terms of Jonathan's original need for wrappers, there is some
> possibility that they could be auto-generated using the Ant introspecti=
on
> facilities. One problem is that most Ant tasks support a multitude of
> attributes. As I said above, XML is quite nice there as it allows
> attributes to be named. You only provide the attributes you want and mo=
stly
> everything else takes sensible defaults. In the copy example, think abo=
ut
> what the wrapper would look like that exposes all the capabilities of
> <copy>
> (http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/copy.html). I think it could be
> quite ugly unless your scripting language also supports named attribute=
s -
> I have limited experience with Jython, so I can't say.
>
> BTW, I once experimented with converting build files to scripts (code
> actually). I  wrote an XSL template to turn a simple Ant build into a J=
ava
> program. It was effectively a build compiler (part of Mutant's botostra=
p
> process).
>
> Here's the XSL
> http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/ant/proposal/mutant/build/=
Atti
>c/bootstrap.xsl?rev=3D1.3&content-type=3Dtext/plain
>
> You can see the result here.
> http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/ant/proposal/mutant/src/java/bootstra=
p/or
>g/apache/ant/builder/Attic/MutantBuilder.java?rev=3D1.7&content-type=3Dt=
ext/vnd.
>viewcvs-markup
>
> Not that useful but a bit more grist for this mill. It certainly showed=
 me
> that it is hard to cram the expressiveness of the XML approach into met=
hod
> calls. I had to limit myself to a very narrow subset of tasks and their
> usage patterns.
>
> Conor
>
>
>
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