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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> library |
| CDATA #REQUIRED</tt> |
| <br><tt> ></tt> |
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| <li> |
| <b>name -</b> name of the task to be defined</li> |
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| <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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| <li> |
| <b>library</b> - a path relative to the plug-in install location for the |
| library containing the type</li> |
| </ul> |
| <b><i>Examples: </i></b>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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