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| AntTypes</h1></center> | |
| <b><i>Identifier: </i></b>org.eclipse.ant.core.antTypes<p><b><i>Description: </i></b>Allows | |
| plug-ins to define arbitrary Ant datatypes for use by the Ant infrastructure. | |
| The standard Ant infrastructure allows for the addition of arbitrary datatypes. Unfortunately, it is unlikely that the Ant Core plug-in | |
| would have the classes required by these datatypes on its classpath (or that of any of its | |
| prerequisites). To address this, clients should define an extension which | |
| plugs into this extension-point and maps a datatype name onto a class. The Ant | |
| plug-in can then request that the declaring plug-in load the specified class. | |
| <p><b><i>Configuration Markup: </i></b> | |
| <p><tt> <!ELEMENT antType EMPTY></tt> | |
| <br><tt> <!ATTLIST antType</tt> | |
| <br><tt> name | |
| CDATA #REQUIRED</tt> | |
| <br><tt> class | |
| CDATA #REQUIRED</tt> | |
| <br><tt> ></tt> | |
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| <b>name -</b> name of the task to be defined</li> | |
| <li> | |
| <b>class</b> - the fully qualified name of a Java class implementing the | |
| datatype. Generally this class must be a subclass of <tt>org.apache.tools.ant.types.DataType</tt>.</li> | |
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| <p><i><b>Examples: </b> </i>The following is an example of an object | |
| declaration: | |
| <p><tt> <extension point="org.eclipse.ant.core.antType"></tt><br> | |
| <tt> <antTask name="coolType" | |
| class="com.example.CoolType"/></tt><br> | |
| <tt> </extension></tt> | |
| <p><b><i>API Information</i>:</b><i> </i>The objects declared via this | |
| extension-point are accessible though the following API:<p><tt> | |
| org.eclipse.core.ant.AntPlugin.getTypeExtensions</tt> | |
| <p><b><i>Supplied Implementation:</i></b> The platform itself supplies a number | |
| of datatypes including <tt>commaPatternSet</tt>. | |
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