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From: Dominique Devienne <DDevienne@lgc.com>
To: "'Ant Users List'" <user@ant.apache.org>
Subject: RE: scripting tips
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 08:37:10 -0600
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> From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:erik@ehatchersolutions.com]
> 
> On Monday, October 27, 2003, at 05:49  PM, Stirling, Scott wrote:
> 
> > So, e.g., <unzip src="foo" dest="bar"> corresponds to
> > setSrc()/setDest() methods on the Extract task that take
> > java.io.Files, not Strings.
> 
> When does the type information become a problem for you?  It's just the
> initial headache of crafting a call to setSrc, right?   But once you
> match up the types all is well, I'm guessing.

Most Java scripting engines allow you to assign Bean-like properties
as if they were just simple members:

unzip = ...;
unzip.src = new File("foo");
unzip.dest = new File("bar");

So it shouldn't be much different than the XML syntax. You just have to be
aware that this will probably not perform the automatic String -> Type that
Ant core does, thus the need to pass an actual File above. Not tested...

--DD

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