echo to file might be useful though Ian
Kr�n Munck wrote:
Wouldn't an "echo to file" task be more appropriate for that job? It's a small file with known content, so nothing should go wrong - but something in my spine twitches when I think of global replace.
Kr�n
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian MacLean Sent: 6. oktober 2003 04:26 To: Mitch Denny Cc: Gert Driesen; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [nant-dev] [Fwd: Ready to tackle next release]
+1, mainly because I've just found a use for it in our linux build. We
need to create a nant shell script that contains the full path to the just built NAnt.exe which we won't know till we build it. So it would be
a prime candidate for a use of the replace task.
Ian
The <touch /> task could possibly be modified to do it. But replace would possibly be more intuitive for new users than using a filter chain. It could probably support filter chains anyway - it might also be cool to have a generic <filter /> task too. Next release :)
I'm thinking that we could put the replace task in now since it would be useful, and then modify its implementation when chaining support is added.
What do you all think?
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-----Original Message----- From: Ian MacLean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 2:03 AM To: Gert Driesen Cc: Mitch Denny; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [nant-dev] [Fwd: Ready to tackle next release]
I just noticed that Ant still has both the replaceTask and
the filtersets in copy/zip etc. I'm sure you could accomplish an in-place replace with filtersets but I can see a task called replace being easier for new uesrs to deal with than filterchains.
Ian
http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/replace.html
Gert Driesen wrote:
to be honest, I'm not sure about that one ... If necessary we couldie without
ofcourse create a task for that, but I was just saying we don't necessary need one ... didn't really give it much thought yet ...
Gert
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What if you want to replace strings in a file in place ? -
copying/moving the filesupport
Ian Gert Driesen wrote:
something like that yes :-)
but instead of having a separate task for that purpose, filterchain
would be added to existing tasks (like copy, zip, ...)
Gert
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So in implementation it would work like this:
[FilterChain("filterchain")] public FilterChain FilterChain { ... }
Then in the execute task:
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(...); StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(...); this.FilterChain.Filter(reader, writer);
Or something like that.
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