Ant Custom Task

[Nikhil Jain]

Hi,

I am trying to sneak into Ant Custom Taks. I was trying out Nested tasks, which I was able to work it out.
<helloworld name="Shashank">
<hellochild/>
</helloworld>

I would like to you use the name attribute in the helloChild task. How can I achieve this. One way is to pass the attribute to the hellOcHILD class. Is there any way by which I can access all the values of the parent class.

  
package customtasks;
 
import java.util.ArrayList;
 
import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException;
import org.apache.tools.ant.Task;
import org.apache.tools.ant.Project;
 
public class Hello extends Task {

private String name = null;
private String property = null;
private ArrayList<Task> tasks = new ArrayList();

@Override
public void execute() throws BuildException {
HelloChild _hc = null;
this.log("Hello " + this.getName(), Project.MSG_INFO);
for (int i = 0; i < tasks.size(); i++) {
_hc = (HelloChild) tasks.get(i);
_hc.perform();
}
}

public void addHelloChild(HelloChild t) {
this.log("Debug", Project.MSG_DEBUG);
tasks.add(t); 
}
 

public void setName(String l_Name) {
this.name = l_Name;
}

public void setProperty(String l_Property) {
this.property = l_Property;
}

public String getName(){
return this.name;
}
 
}
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package customtasks;
 
import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException;
import org.apache.tools.ant.Project;
import org.apache.tools.ant.Task;
 
public class HelloChild extends Task {

public void execute() throws BuildException {
this.log("Parent is" , Project.MSG_INFO);
}
 
}
 
Build.xml
<project name="demo" basedir="." default="demo">
   <taskdef resource="MyAntTasks.properties" classpath="."/>
   <target name="demo">
      <helloworld name="Shashank">
<hellochild/>
  </helloworld>
   </target>
</project>
  

Thanks

[Nikhil Jain]

I am still not able to figure it out, is there any better way to do the above task

[Ilja Preuss]

I don't think I understand what your problem is. In which way is the code you provided not doing what you want it to do?