CJ wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Hopefully someone can help me or point me in the right direction here.
>
> I have a custom Ant task which I want to use to invoke another command
> which isn't known at compilation time. It uses an approach very similar
> to Ant itself, in that it builds the command from RuntimeConfigurables/
> UnknownElements. This all works but for running commands which have a
> prefix (such as my other custom commands).
>
> I want to be able to translate the prefix to a namespace uri that I can
> make the correct UnkownElement.setNamespace( uri ) call.
>
> For clarity, this is a simplified form of what I want to do. (I realize
> the example doesn't make a great deal of practical sense in this form;
> this is just for illustrative purposes, please humor me :) ).
>
> <project name="example"
> xmlns:myprefix="http://some.uri"
> >
> <taskdef resource="some/path/task.properties"
> uri="http://some.uri"
> classpath="mylib.jar"
> /> <!-- Supplying 'mytaskname' and 'taskrunner' -->
>
> <!-- Regular execution; example -->
> <myprefix:mytaskname ... />
>
> <!-- Task runner; what I want to do -->
> <myprefix:taskrunner>
> <atask name="myprefix:mytaskname">
> ...
> </atask>
> </myprefix:taskrunner>
> </project>
>
> Taskrunner is what I'm trying to get working, so it executes the task
> just as Ant would when parsing the xml form above it. I am parsing the
> 'myprefix' from the task name (atask's name attribute), but I don't
> know how to get the namespace 'http://some.uri' programmatically at
> this point.
>
There's nothing in ant to do this yet, though you could probably write a
task (which we would gladly accept, esp if it came with docs and tests :),
--
Steve Loughran http://www.1060.org/blogxter/publish/5
Author: Ant in Action http://antbook.org/
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