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| <h2><a name="typedef">Typedef</a></h2> |
| <h3>Description</h3> |
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| Adds a task or a data type definition to the current project |
| such that this new type or task can be used in the current project. |
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| Tasks are any class that extend org.apache.tools.ant.Task or |
| a class that is adapted to a Task using an adapter class. |
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| Data types are things like <a href="../using.html#path">paths</a> or |
| <a href="../CoreTypes/fileset.html">filesets</a> that can be defined at |
| the project level and referenced via their ID attribute. |
| Custom data types usually need custom tasks to put them to good use. |
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| Two attributes are needed to make a definition, |
| the name that identifies this data type uniquely, and the full |
| name of the class (including the packages) that implements this |
| type. |
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| You can also define a group of definitions at once using the file or |
| resource attributes. These attributes point to files in the format of |
| Java property files or an xml format. |
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| For property files each line defines a single data type in the |
| format:</p> |
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| typename=fully.qualified.java.classname |
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| The xml format is described in the |
| <a href="../CoreTypes/antlib.html">Antlib</a> |
| section. |
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| <h3>Parameters</h3> |
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| <td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td> |
| <td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td> |
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| <td valign="top">name</td> |
| <td valign="top">the name of the data type</td> |
| <td valign="top" align="center">Yes, unless the file or resource type |
| attributes have been specified.</td> |
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| <td valign="top">classname</td> |
| <td valign="top">the full class name implementing the data type</td> |
| <td valign="top" align="center">Yes, unless file or resource |
| have been specified.</td> |
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| <td valign="top">file</td> |
| <td valign="top">Name of the file to load definitions from.</td> |
| <td valign="top" align="center">No</td> |
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| <td valign="top">resource</td> |
| <td valign="top">Name of the resouce to load definitions from.</td> |
| <td valign="top" align="center">No</td> |
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| <td valign="top">format</td> |
| <td valign="top">The format of the file or resource. The values |
| are "properties" or "xml". If the value is "properties" the file/resource |
| is a property file contains name to classname pairs. If the value |
| is "xml", the file/resource is an xml file/resource structured according |
| to <a href="../CoreTypes/antlib.html">Antlib</a>. |
| The default is "properties" unless the file/resorce name ends with |
| ".xml", in which case the format attribute will have the value "xml". |
| (introduced in ant1.6) |
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| <td valign="top" align="center">No</td> |
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| <td valign="top">classpath</td> <td valign="top">the classpath to |
| use when looking up <code>classname</code>.</td> <td |
| align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
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| <td valign="top">loaderRef</td> <td valign="top">the name of the loader that is |
| used to load the class, constructed from the specified classpath. Use this to |
| allow multiple tasks/types to be loaded with the same loader, so they can call |
| each other. ( introduced in ant1.5 )</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
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| <td valign="top">onerror</td> |
| <td valign="top">The action to take if there was a failure in defining the |
| type. The values are <i>fail</i> - cause a build exception, <i>warn</i> |
| output a warning, but continue, <i>ignore</i>, do nothing. The default |
| is <i>fail</i>. |
| (introduced in ant1.6) |
| </td> |
| <td valign="top" align="center">No</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td valign="top">adapter</td> |
| <td valign="top">A class that is used to adapt the defined class to |
| another interface/class. The adapter class must implement the interface |
| "org.apache.tools.ant.TypeAdapter". The adapter class will be used |
| to wrap the defined class unless the defined class implements/extends |
| the class defined by the attribute "adaptto". |
| If "adaptto" is not set, |
| the defined class will always be wrapped. |
| (introduced in ant1.6) |
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| <td valign="top" align="center">No</td> |
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| <td valign="top">adaptto</td> |
| <td valign="top">This attribute is used in conjunction with the |
| adapter attribute. |
| If the defined class does not implement/extend the interface/class |
| specified by this attribute, the adaptor class will be used |
| to wrap the class. |
| (introduced in ant1.6) |
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| <td valign="top" align="center">No</td> |
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| <td valign="top">uri</td> |
| <td valign="top"> |
| The uri that this definition should live in. |
| <em>since Ant1.6</em> |
| </td> |
| <td valign="top" align="center">No</td> |
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| <h3>Parameters specified as nested elements</h3> |
| <h4>classpath</h4> |
| <p><code>Typedef</code>'s <i>classpath</i> attribute is a |
| <a href="../using.html#path">PATH like structure</a> and can also be set |
| via a nested <i>classpath</i> element.</p> |
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| <h3>Examples</h3> |
| The following fragment defines define a type called <i>urlset</i>. |
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| <typedef name="urlset" classname="com.mydomain.URLSet"/> </pre> |
| The data type is now availabe to Ant. The |
| class <code>com.mydomain.URLSet</code> implements this type.</p> |
| <p> |
| Assuming a class <i>org.acme.ant.RunnableAdapter</i> that |
| extends Task and implements <i>org.apache.tools.ant.TypeAdapter</i>, |
| and in the execute method invokes <i>run</i> on the proxied object, |
| one may use a Runnable class as an Ant task. The following fragment |
| defines a task called <i>runclock</i>. |
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| <typedef name="runclock" |
| classname="com.acme.ant.RunClock" |
| adapter="org.acme.ant.RunnableAdapter"/> |
| </pre> |
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