Hi Ilya,
I was trying to implement generation with using ant tasks(it seemed to me more elegant solution, than to work with file streams in Java code) and found that ant can't work with cycles. I can run replace task for certain file name and can't do this with parametrized file names for a set of modules
IMHO if you write a standalone tool then pure Java or even shell-script is probably the better choice (in comparison with ant). But if you like to incorporate this logic into the current build system - there is a separate build file for each module as you probably know. You don't need to parse the list of modules since the module name is predefined for each build.xml Regards, 2006/7/28, Ilya Okomin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On 7/27/06, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ilya Okomin wrote: > > I share your point of view about Exceptions without description, it > > isn't user friendly. But I think it will be another sort of 'manual' > > scan :) There is a need to waste time to analyze surrounding code to > > provide appropriate message, a bit another sort of work, isn't it? I > > think the best way would be if all these Exceptions without info are > > being identified before externalization process is to be ran. For > > today I'd better postpone the task of initialization 'empty' > > exceptions until the externalization is finished. > > Sure, I agree that it is a different problem, so have no problem dealing > with it separately. > > > I've implemented a small tool that generates Message source and > > MsgHelp source into a desired module. Tool gets a list of modules > > names from property file (you can specify modules class sources to > > generate for), then we run over the list and special word '<module>' > > in Message and MsgHelp source templates files replaced with the > > specified module name. > > Cool. You may find it easy to do this using Ant's replace task [1]. > > [1] http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/replace.html Tim, thanks for hint with ant. I was trying to implement generation with using ant tasks(it seemed to me more elegant solution, than to work with file streams in Java code) and found that ant can't work with cycles. I can run replace task for certain file name and can't do this with parametrized file names for a set of modules:( There is an extension of ant called "Ant-Contrib" [2] where cycles are implemented. Do you know if it can be used in Harmony? Or may be there is a possibility to do replace task for a set of modules just in pure Ant? [2] http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/ Thanks, Ilya. > > Resulting sources are copied to the o/a/h/<module>/internal/ > > directory. At first I planned to use MsgHelp class from luni but > > after a while I've decided to avoid dependency on luni module and > > included generation source file of this class to every module. > > I agree, if you are going to do the template then you might as well > duplicate the MsgHelp behavior across the modules. In fact, don't feel > obliged to maintain the separation of Message and MsgHelp, you may find > that it makes sense to combine them now. Your choice. > > > Thus Message or MsgHelp source files can be easy regenerated for a > > desired set of modules, if anything is changed there. I plan to add > > creation of a new empty messages.properties files with copyright > > heading if it is absent for the module. > > Extra credit for that ;-) > > > Also I think that it make sense to changle location to > > o/a/h/<module>/internal/nls. > > Agreed. > > > Will provide patch with this tool when these changes are to be > > implemented and checked. > > I'll look forward to seeing it. Thanks Ilya! > > Regards, > Tim > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- -- Ilya Okomin Intel Middleware Products Division
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