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| <title>Props Ant Library</title> |
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| <h2>Introduction</h2> |
| |
| <p>This is a library of supplementary handlers for Ant properties resolution.</p> |
| |
| <h2>Requirements</h2> |
| |
| <p>The current version of this antlib is built against the Ant 1.8.x development version, |
| to be found in Ant's Subversion trunk. |
| </p> |
| |
| <h2>Where is it?</h2> |
| |
| <p>The source code for the library lives in the sandbox antlibs subspace of Ant's SVN - |
| <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ant/sandbox/antlibs/props/trunk/">http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ant/sandbox/antlibs/props/trunk/</a>.</p> |
| |
| <h2>Installation</h2> |
| |
| <p>If you are building this from sources, run the antlib target |
| and you'll get a file <code>ant-props.jar</code>.</p> |
| |
| <p>There are several ways to use the tasks:</p> |
| |
| <ul> |
| <li><p>The traditional way: |
| <pre> |
| <typedef resource="org/apache/ant/props/antlib.xml" |
| classpath="YOUR-PATH-TO/ant-props.jar"/> |
| </pre> |
| |
| Using this approach the provided extensions will live in the default namespace.</p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li><p>Similar, but assigning a namespace URI |
| <pre> |
| <typedef uri="antlib:org.apache.ant.props" |
| resource="org/apache/ant/props/antlib.xml" |
| classpath="YOUR-PATH-TO/ant-props.jar"/> |
| </pre> |
| |
| Placing the properties extensions into their own namespace, usable e.g.: |
| |
| <pre> |
| <project xmlns:props="antlib:org.apache.ant.props"> |
| ... |
| <propertyhelper> |
| <props:nested /> |
| </propertyhelper> |
| </pre> |
| |
| or a variation thereof.</p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li><p>Using Ant's autodiscovery. Place <code>ant-props.jar</code> |
| into a directory and use <code>ant -lib |
| DIR-CONTAINING-THE-JAR</code> or copy it into |
| <code>ANT_HOME/lib</code> - and then in your build file, simply |
| declare the namespace on the <code>project</code> tag: |
| |
| <pre> |
| <project xmlns:props="antlib:org.apache.ant.props"> |
| </pre> |
| |
| And all tasks of this library will automatically be available |
| in the <code>props</code> namespace without any <code>typedef</code>.</p> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| <h2>Tasks and Types</h2> |
| |
| <p>The types provided are instances of |
| <code>org.apache.tools.ant.PropertyHelper.Delegate</code> and can be invoked |
| using the <code><propertyhelper></code> task provided in the SVN trunk of Ant core: |
| |
| <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> |
| <tr> |
| <th>Delegate</th> |
| <th>Delegate Type</th> |
| <th>Description</th> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td align="center">nested</td> |
| <td align="center">PropertyExpander</td> |
| <td>Implements nested property expansion; e.g. <code>${${double-expand-me}}</code>.</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td align="center"><a href="stringops.html">stringops</a></td> |
| <td align="center">PropertyEvaluator</td> |
| <td>Implements *nix shell-inspired string operations.</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td align="center">refs</td> |
| <td align="center">PropertyEvaluator</td> |
| <td>Given <code>ref:<em>refid</em></code>, |
| resolves reference <code><em>refid</em></code>.</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td align="center">types</td> |
| <td align="center">PropertyEvaluator</td> |
| <td>Given <code><em>type</em>(<em>arg</em>)</code>, attempts to invoke |
| <code><em>type</em></code> constructor <code>(<em>project, arg</em>)</code>, |
| then <code>(<em>arg</em>)</code>.</td> |
| </tr> |
| </table> |
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