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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 10:51:04 -0700
From: "Tim Meals" <tmeals@intraware.com>
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Subject: Re: [antlist] custom task - how to pass *.java filenames
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Look at extending org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.MatchingTask.  All the code to
do nested filesets/includes is already there.  You'll need to iterate through
the filesets once you get execute() called.  Take a look at how JAR/Zip work, or
any task that has filesets.

Tim

T Master wrote:

> I'm starting to write my own custom task (oooooh) as a wrapper around
> JavaNCSS.
>
> I want to be able to pass all the *.java names to my task.
> I'm thinking I should have my custom task allow a nested fileset (along with
> patternset).
>
> How would I pass this to my task?  Would it be a String[] of the actual
> *.java filenames?
>
> All comments appreciated, and thanks in advance.
>
> T Master

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