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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:01:56 -0800 (PST)
From: Matt Benson <gudnabrsam@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Displaying the value in a Java class?
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--- Rhino <rhino1@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> 
> [I've lost the original email containing this thread
> but I found it in the 
> MARC archives and pasted it  below the line of equal
> signs....]
> 
> Matt,
> 
> You are absolutely right, it was NOT _remotely_
> obvious that BCEL has to be 
> present in order for LoadProperties to work. If you
> hadn't posted that fact, 
> I would never have found that in the manual, for
> several reasons:
> 1. LoadProperties is a core task so I would have
> assumed that it wouldn't 
> need extra jars. It's my understanding that core
> tasks, by definition, are 
> ones that don't need extra jars to work. Apparently,
> this is not true; even 
> a core task may need extra jars in somes cases.
> 2. The article on LoadProperties doesn't mention the
> need for BCEL to be 
> present.

It's not loadproperties that needs BCEL; it's the
classconstants filterchain.

> 3. The article on FilterChains doesn't mention the
> need for BCEL to be 
> present.
> 

There should be a link; will add.

> Even if I had looked at the optional jars page, I
> might have missed it 
> because I would have been looking for filterchains
> or loadproperties in the 
> second column of the table, not specifically
> "ClassConstants filter reader".
> 
> So thank you VERY much for pointing that out. As
> soon as I installed BCEL, I 
> found that my task executed without the
> IOExceptions.
> 
> Unfortunately, I still have one problem that may
> keep this from being the 
> solution to my problem after all: the ClassConstants
> filter reader 
> apparently only gets information about _String_
> constants (it only returned 
> values for the Strings in my .class file but no
> other types) but the 
> constant I am trying to read is defined as follows:
> 
>     public static final EmploymentHistoryFormats 
> DESIRED_EMPLOYMENT_HISTORY_FORMAT =
> EmploymentHistoryFormats.LIST_FORMAT;
> 
> EmploymentHistoryFormats is an enum, not a String.
> 
> Is there any way to coax this filter to tell me that
> the current value of 
> DESIRED_EMPLOYMENT_HISTORY_FORMAT is LIST_FORMAT?
> That's all I really want 
> to know to get my build.xml working 100%.
> 
> If not, is there any other way to get this
> information?

filter the Java file w/ regex looking for 

"^[\s]*public static final EmploymentHistoryFormats
DESIRED_EMPLOYMENT_HISTORY_FORMAT[\s]*=[\s]*([^;]+);[\s]*$"

and replace w/ "\1"?

-Matt
> 
> --
> Rhino
> 
>
=================================================================
> I thought the manual was wrong at first too, but
> using
> a class file is correct.  What is not as obvious is
> that you need BCEL to make it work.  This is
> documented in install.html#librarydependencies from
> the manual.
> 
> HTH,
> Matt
> 
> --- Rhino <rhino1@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
> > The classcontents filterreader might very well be
> > exactly what I want - if I
> > could understand how to use it!
> >
> > I've just tried several experiments and nothing
> > works for me; nothing at
> > all.
> >
> > I must be misunderstanding some of the concepts.
> For
> > instance, it _looks_ as
> > if I should be able to read a file, grab all the
> > constants from it, and turn
> > them into properties. But I can't make out if I'm
> > supposed to reading a
> > class file or a source file: it _looks_ as if I
> > should be reading a class
> > file, which seems counterintuitive to me.
> > Nevertheless, I've tried pointing
> > the task at both a real .class file and at a real
> > Java source file in turn
> > but I inevitably get "Unable to load file:
> > java.io.IOException" regardless
> > of which I use. Here is my task:
> >
> > <loadproperties srcfile="ResumeConstants.java">
> >
> > <filterchain>
> >
> > <classconstants/>
> >
> > </filterchain>
> >
> > </loadproperties>
> >
> >
> >
> > (Replacing the srcfile value with
> > "ResumeConstants.class" made no difference
> > at all. Both the source and the class file are in
> > the same directory as the
> > Ant script itself, just to keep things nice and
> > simple.)
> >
> > Here is the stackTrace:
> >
> > BUILD FAILED
> >
> >
>
E:\eclipse\3.1.1\eclipse\workspace\Resume_JDK_1.5.0\xml\filter.xml:34:
> >
> > Unable to load file: java.io.IOException
> >
> > at
> >
>
org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.LoadProperties.execute(LoadProperties.java:227)
> >
> > at
> >
>
org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:275)
> >
> > at
> org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:364)
> >
> > at
> >
> org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:341)
> >
> > at
> >
>
org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:369)
> >
> > at
> >
>
org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1216)
> >
> > at
> >
>
org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1185)
> >
> > at
> >
>
org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:40)
> >
> > at
> >
>
org.eclipse.ant.internal.ui.antsupport.EclipseDefaultExecutor.executeTargets(EclipseDe
> 
> \
> faultExecutor.java:32)
> >
> > at
> >
>
org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1068)
> >
> > at
> >
>
org.eclipse.ant.internal.ui.antsupport.InternalAntRunner.run(InternalAntRunner.java:42
> 
> \
> 3)
> >
> > at
> >
>
org.eclipse.ant.internal.ui.antsupport.InternalAntRunner.main(InternalAntRunner.java:1
> 
> \
> 37)
> >
> > Caused by: java.io.IOException
> >
> > at
> >
>
org.apache.tools.ant.filters.ClassConstants.read(ClassConstants.java:136)
> >
> > at
> >
>
org.apache.tools.ant.filters.BaseFilterReader.read(BaseFilterReader.java:86)
> >
> > at java.io.Reader.read(Unknown Source)
> 
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