Re: OS Independent file strings in resourcecollections

2009-09-17 Thread Raja Nagendra Kumar

Hi Stefan as suggested I have filed the issue and the same is found at

https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47858

Regards,
Nagendra
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Re: OS Independent file strings in resourcecollections

2009-09-17 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2009-09-17, Raja Nagendra Kumar  wrote:

> Hi,

> I am using ResourceCollections such as Union etc. However when ever I
> iterate, I am seeing the file names be as per the OS conventions.
> e.g if the file on windows matches to the collections and it is located in

> f:\work\nag\test.txt

> the the union iterator gives it as f:\work\nag\test.txt and not as
> f:/work/nag/test.txt.

> due to this my name matching , using restrict etc are failing. as my match
> pattern uses / instead of \ for os independency.

> In this context, is there a way to tell the ant to use always OS independent
> file path separator..

I see what you mean.  The  fileselector takes care of the file
separator but the name resource selector does not.  I'd suggest adding a
handleDirSep attribute like the one for globmapper to the name selector
for the next Ant release.

Could you please file a bugzilla issue for this?

As a workaround you can use ${file.separator} instead of / all over your
patterns (or if you are using them programmatically
java.io.File.separator[Char]).

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OS Independent file strings in resourcecollections

2009-09-17 Thread Raja Nagendra Kumar

Hi,

I am using ResourceCollections such as Union etc. However when ever I
iterate, I am seeing the file names be as per the OS conventions. 
e.g if the file on windows matches to the collections and it is located in 

f:\work\nag\test.txt

the the union iterator gives it as f:\work\nag\test.txt and not as
f:/work/nag/test.txt.

due to this my name matching , using restrict etc are failing. as my match
pattern uses / instead of \ for os independency.

In this context, is there a way to tell the ant to use always OS independent
file path separator..

Regards,
Nagendra
www.tejasoft.com




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ResourceCollections support nested FilterChain's

2005-12-13 Thread Jan.Materne
While reading the thread "Expanding ALL properties manually" [1] on the
user list
I got an idea: could a ResourceCollection support filterchains for its
own? In consequence
all tasks "just" supporting RCs would also support filterchains as well.

The main idea is that RC iterates over the nested resources.
Filterchains only are
important if you access the content - via input/output streams.

So the actual use
  
  
  
  
wouldnt make any difference. When you add a filterchain
  
  
  
  
  
the 'resources' would wrap the nested resources, so that the streams are
passed
through the filterchain.


'resources' would be modified in the base class
BaseResourceCollectionContainer.
The 'chaining' could be done via ResourceUtils.copyResource().


Consequence: the task couldnt do an 'instanceof' comparison (e.g. for
type casting) because
it only holds the wrapper. Mmh - not nice...


What do you think?


Jan


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Re: AW: ResourceCollections WAS Re: AW: cvs commit: ant/src/testcases /org/apache/tools/ant/types/opti onal/depend ClassFileSetTest.java

2005-05-24 Thread Matt Benson
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I think about that by myself :)
> You said that a Resource could could give
> Input/OutputStream.
> So it would be possible just to add another Cache
> implementiation based 
> on that.
> 
> I thought of implementing the ResourceSelector
> interface additionally ...
> 
You could probably do that too. Just remember that the
 collection is the only one that knows about
ResourceSelectors and they must be typedef'd--most
likely in
antlib:org.apache.tools.ant.types.resources.selectors
(vote ant:resourceselectors !) or else globally.

-Matt


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AW: ResourceCollections WAS Re: AW: cvs commit: ant/src/testcases /org/apache/tools/ant/types/opti onal/depend ClassFileSetTest.java

2005-05-24 Thread Jan . Materne
I think about that by myself :)
You said that a Resource could could give Input/OutputStream.
So it would be possible just to add another Cache implementiation based 
on that.

I thought of implementing the ResourceSelector interface additionally ...


Jan

> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
> Von: Matt Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Gesendet am: Dienstag, 24. Mai 2005 17:43
> An: Ant Developers List
> Betreff: ResourceCollections WAS Re: AW: cvs commit:
> ant/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/types/opti onal/depend
> ClassFileSetTest.java
> 
> 
> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:h
> > >
> >
> src/resources/org/apache/tools/ant/types/resources/selectors
> > 
> > Do you mean, we have to rewrite our file-selectors?
> > 
> 
> Any fileselector continues to work with fileset/dirset
> as well as .  Most fileselectors should still
> be relevant as resourceselectors, and in those cases
> it might be nice to delegate file selection to the
> corresponding resourceselector, just to decrease the
> number of places where an implementation of a check
> exists.  I didn't attempt to create a resource version
> of  because a) I don't understand it :) and
> b) I wasn't sure how to handle the properties file
> approach that exists w/ the file version.  It is
> probably translatable, but I hoped maybe you could do 
> it :) or help me to.
> 
> -Matt
> 
> > Jan
> > 
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ResourceCollections WAS Re: AW: cvs commit: ant/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/types/opti onal/depend ClassFileSetTest.java

2005-05-24 Thread Matt Benson

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
>
src/resources/org/apache/tools/ant/types/resources/selectors
> 
> Do you mean, we have to rewrite our file-selectors?
> 

Any fileselector continues to work with fileset/dirset
as well as .  Most fileselectors should still
be relevant as resourceselectors, and in those cases
it might be nice to delegate file selection to the
corresponding resourceselector, just to decrease the
number of places where an implementation of a check
exists.  I didn't attempt to create a resource version
of  because a) I don't understand it :) and
b) I wasn't sure how to handle the properties file
approach that exists w/ the file version.  It is
probably translatable, but I hoped maybe you could do 
it :) or help me to.

-Matt

> Jan
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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-05-24 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Tue, 24 May 2005, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hmmm.  I actually don't know what else to say beyond
> the updates to the manual under Concepts and Types,
> and the modified tasks: pathconvert, concat, length +
> resourcecount.

This answer is exactly what I needed.

Thanks

Stefan

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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-05-24 Thread Matt Benson
--- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any chance for a quick start guide?

Hmmm.  I actually don't know what else to say beyond
the updates to the manual under Concepts and Types,
and the modified tasks: pathconvert, concat, length +
resourcecount.  Let me know what further information
you think we need to provide, as far as you can
without knowing what that information IS, anyway.  ;)

I also need to document that  can take any
filesystem-only resourcecollection as a nested
element.

-Matt

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Re: copy + ResourceCollections

2005-05-24 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Mon, 23 May 2005, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> My proposal regarding copy is that any FileResource with a base
> directory is processed according to BC,

+1

> but any other Resource is copied with implicit flattening (and an
> appropriate warning message) unless a nested mapper element says
> otherwise.

Sounds reasonable and easy to explain.

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Re: copy + ResourceCollections

2005-05-24 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Mon, 23 May 2005, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> So by that token, you would similarly add a Deletable
> (?) interface for FileResource to implement.  So then
> move could fail when encountering a Resource that does
> not implement Deletable...

Let's turn this around.  Do we really want to support deleting of
files on a remote FTP server using  or ?  Or would we
want users to stick to  fro this?

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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-05-24 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Mon, 23 May 2005, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Whew!

Thanks.  Now I need to find a few hours to see how it all works ;-)

Any chance for a quick start guide?

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Re: copy + ResourceCollections

2005-05-23 Thread Matt Benson

--- Alexey Solofnenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sounds great. Do you have also "Movable" interface?

Not yet.  Let's see if anyone else has anything to say
about these concepts too.

-Matt
> 
> - Alexey.
> 
> On 5/23/05, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > 
> > --- "Alexey N. Solofnenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > > Can it be - copy+delete in that case?
> > 
> > Okay... here's what I did for preserving
> timestamps in
> > FileUtils copy methods. I added a Touchable
> interface
> > to the resources package. FileResource is (so far)
> > the only Resource that uses it, but I was thinking
> > along the lines of FTP/SCP Resources when I added
> it.
> > So by that token, you would similarly add a
> Deletable
> > (?) interface for FileResource to implement. So
> then
> > move could fail when encountering a Resource that
> does
> > not implement Deletable... that is the only
> sensible
> > way that occurs to me to support Resource
> deletion.
> > 
> > -Matt
> > 
> > >
> > > - Alexey.
> > >
> > > Matt Benson wrote:
> > >
> > > >... Regarding the Move task, I don't see that
> we
> > > could
> > > >move non-file resources in a predictable way so
> I
> > > >would recommend failing on ResourceCollections
> that
> > > do
> > > >not return true from isFilesystemOnly().
> > > >
> > > >Thoughts?
> > > >
> > > >-Matt
> > 
> 
> 
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Re: copy + ResourceCollections

2005-05-23 Thread Alexey Solofnenko
Sounds great. Do you have also "Movable" interface?

- Alexey.

On 5/23/05, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> --- "Alexey N. Solofnenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > Can it be - copy+delete in that case?
> 
> Okay... here's what I did for preserving timestamps in
> FileUtils copy methods. I added a Touchable interface
> to the resources package. FileResource is (so far)
> the only Resource that uses it, but I was thinking
> along the lines of FTP/SCP Resources when I added it.
> So by that token, you would similarly add a Deletable
> (?) interface for FileResource to implement. So then
> move could fail when encountering a Resource that does
> not implement Deletable... that is the only sensible
> way that occurs to me to support Resource deletion.
> 
> -Matt
> 
> >
> > - Alexey.
> >
> > Matt Benson wrote:
> >
> > >... Regarding the Move task, I don't see that we
> > could
> > >move non-file resources in a predictable way so I
> > >would recommend failing on ResourceCollections that
> > do
> > >not return true from isFilesystemOnly().
> > >
> > >Thoughts?
> > >
> > >-Matt
> 


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Re: copy + ResourceCollections

2005-05-23 Thread Matt Benson
--- "Alexey N. Solofnenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Can it be - copy+delete in that case?

Okay... here's what I did for preserving timestamps in
FileUtils copy methods.  I added a Touchable interface
to the resources package.  FileResource is (so far)
the only Resource that uses it, but I was thinking
along the lines of FTP/SCP Resources when I added it. 
So by that token, you would similarly add a Deletable
(?) interface for FileResource to implement.  So then
move could fail when encountering a Resource that does
not implement Deletable... that is the only sensible
way that occurs to me to support Resource deletion.

-Matt

> 
> - Alexey.
> 
> Matt Benson wrote:
> 
> >...  Regarding the Move task, I don't see that we
> could
> >move non-file resources in a predictable way so I
> >would recommend failing on ResourceCollections that
> do
> >not return true from isFilesystemOnly().
> >
> >Thoughts?
> >
> >-Matt




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Re: copy + ResourceCollections

2005-05-23 Thread Alexey N. Solofnenko

Can it be - copy+delete in that case?

- Alexey.

Matt Benson wrote:


...  Regarding the Move task, I don't see that we could
move non-file resources in a predictable way so I
would recommend failing on ResourceCollections that do
not return true from isFilesystemOnly().

Thoughts?

-Matt
 


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copy + ResourceCollections

2005-05-23 Thread Matt Benson
Now that ResourceCollections have been added to CVS, I
(and anyone who wants to help) need to add support for
ResourceCollections anywhere that it makes sense to do
so.  As I have mentioned in some bugreps tasks that
operate on paths and should only get
real-filesystem-files should work by adding
filesystem-only resource collections to paths.  These
are not terribly plentiful, however, so it's time to
figure out sensible ways for tasks to work with
resource collections.
  Anyone who cares to read this may have noticed that
I have subclassed Resource, primarily for
input/outputStream accessor implementations, but also
for typing in the case of the most common Resource
type:  FileResources.  These provide access to the
underlying file and, optionally, a base directory.  My
proposal regarding copy is that any FileResource with
a base directory is processed according to BC, but any
other Resource is copied with implicit flattening (and
an appropriate warning message) unless a nested mapper
element says otherwise.
  Regarding the Move task, I don't see that we could
move non-file resources in a predictable way so I
would recommend failing on ResourceCollections that do
not return true from isFilesystemOnly().

Thoughts?

-Matt



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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-05-23 Thread Matt Benson
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ResourceCollections

2005-05-23 Thread Matt Benson
Here we go...

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RE: ResourceCollections

2005-04-19 Thread Jose Alberto Fernandez
> From: Matt Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> 
> --- Jose Alberto Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > > From: Matt Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > 
> > > --- Jose Alberto Fernandez
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > > All this discussion about roles brings me back
> > to
> > > > the
> > > > proposal/implementation
> > > > of Roles that I made a long time ago and that
> > was
> > > > rejected.
> > > 
> 
> After thinking about this further, this would be okay
> for inline usage of duplicate names but is still
> inferior to using Antlibs for scoping in that types
> can stand alone at the project level (with id
> normally) in the latter scheme, and referenced later. 
> A small distinction perhaps, but I like to be able to
> declare things I intend to reuse at a high level
> rather than naming them during their first use.

I agree with you in principle. However, I do not think every
little bit of XML is a good candidate for id'ing. 
You may ID a  or a  but
a  on its own makes less sense since you usually
need to look at its meaning in the context of the usage.

You can always find a counterexample of course but as a general rule...

To me name overloading makes sense for a very limited number of 
very much used things  as for a condition or a selector, is a good
example.

I am sure others can come with other cases. Forcing usage of namespaces
is the same
as forcing new different names for everything. In particular in core.

Jose Alberto

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RE: ResourceCollections

2005-04-19 Thread Matt Benson
--- Jose Alberto Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > From: Matt Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > 
> > --- Jose Alberto Fernandez
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > All this discussion about roles brings me back
> to
> > > the
> > > proposal/implementation
> > > of Roles that I made a long time ago and that
> was
> > > rejected.
> > 

After thinking about this further, this would be okay
for inline usage of duplicate names but is still
inferior to using Antlibs for scoping in that types
can stand alone at the project level (with id
normally) in the latter scheme, and referenced later. 
A small distinction perhaps, but I like to be able to
declare things I intend to reuse at a high level
rather than naming them during their first use.

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RE: ResourceCollections

2005-04-18 Thread Jose Alberto Fernandez
> From: Matt Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> 
> --- Jose Alberto Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> 
> > All this discussion about roles brings me back to
> > the
> > proposal/implementation
> > of Roles that I made a long time ago and that was
> > rejected.
> 
> If it works and solves this problem, it's okay with
> me.  My only concern was the complexity of the code
> needed to make such a thing work.  I suppose if we
> introduced this it would be simplest to
> comma/space-delimit classnames in a task|typedef
> properties file; e.g.:
> 
> and=org.apache.tools.ant.types.selectors.AndSelector,
> \
> org.apache.tools.ant.types.resources.selectors.And
> 

The main reason for allowing multiple things with the same name
is that they can be defined that way by different providers.
You could have that if you load several 3rd party antlibs on the
same namespace (which I think you can do by loading explicitly).

One could think on adding all your antlibs explicitly to the ant:core
and remove the usage of NS completely, but that would be a user choice.
(this could be a way to deal in a BC way with optional stuff, I.e., 
put it in an antlib that loads into ant:core NS and hence uses default
prefix).

When you have more than one lib on the same NS you have the posibility
of name clashes
and hence the issues about role resolution. So it is not about one
property file
is about multiple sources of definintions.

Jose Alberto

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RE: ResourceCollections

2005-04-18 Thread Matt Benson

--- Jose Alberto Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> All this discussion about roles brings me back to
> the
> proposal/implementation
> of Roles that I made a long time ago and that was
> rejected.

If it works and solves this problem, it's okay with
me.  My only concern was the complexity of the code
needed to make such a thing work.  I suppose if we
introduced this it would be simplest to
comma/space-delimit classnames in a task|typedef
properties file; e.g.:

and=org.apache.tools.ant.types.selectors.AndSelector,
\
org.apache.tools.ant.types.resources.selectors.And

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RE: ResourceCollections

2005-04-18 Thread Jose Alberto Fernandez
All this discussion about roles brings me back to the
proposal/implementation
of Roles that I made a long time ago and that was rejected.

I can hardly remember it by now (or I may be reinventing it anew ;-) ), 
but the key of the matter was the following (notice this was before
namespaces):

a) Roles are interfaces.
b) We have add(Interface) methods for the roles.
c) Introspection works as follows when looking at an XML element:
   1) Look at ALL the classes using that name (e.g., all the classes
mapped to )
   2) Restrict this set to those classes implementing an interface for
which
  there is an add(Interface) method.
   3) If there is more than one class in the resulting set, this is a
disambiguation error.
d) If this unique class implements more than one Interface with an add()
in the context,
   there is a disambiguation error. Since we do not know what method to
call.
e) Call the only method with the only class that matches.

This was before namespaces, so this may apply to the current core or
allow libraries to
use the same name for multiple things.
Now, in this situation, what would introspection need to be able to
solve ambiguities?

Example: Lets have the following definitions:

foo= ant.pack.Foo {
add(ant.Condition);
add(ant.Selector);
}

and=ant.pack.condition.And implements ant.Condition;
and=ant.pack.selector.And implements ant.Selector;


  


This will give an error as it will not know which  to use (two
classes),
Somehow you need to say which class to use.

On the other hand, we could have:

or=ant.pack.ambiguous.Or implements ant.Condition, ant.Selector;


  


This will give an error as it will not know which "add()" to call (two
methods, one class),
Somehow we need to say which role to use.

Using NS just means that you associate different names to different
elements. But that is
not the issue we have in core, they have the same element name. And if
core can do that,
I do not see why third party cannot do the same.

This looks to me as the need to have meta attributes that can be used to
disambiguate:

   ant:role="ant.Condition" or ant.class="ant.pack.selector.And"

which are used by Introspection in case of ambiguity.

Jose Alberto

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> 
> 
> --- Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Martijn, Matt, the example above would be necessary
> > if and only
> > if  only had a
> > add(ResourceSelector). In
> > practice, we'll likely have specialized
> > addAnd(ResourceSelector) and co
> > so that if can be written just:
> 
> oh, that's partly what I was trying to avoid.  Part of
> the beauty, to me, of some of the latest introspection
> code is the ability to use add() methods.  It makes me
> unhappy to have to specify element names in my
> configuration methods where there is no ambiguity. 
> For example, if you have to add multiple elements of
> the same type to be used for different purposes, then
> okay, how else would you know which was which?  But in
> the case of the  ResourceCollection (which
> is the context for ResourceSelectors), why should I
> have to support addAnd(), addOr(), addNot(),
> addNone(), addMajority, etc., etc., when I could code
> add(ResourceSelector) and be done with it?  That takes
> us back to either forcing the explicit declaration at
> all times or trying to code something that uses
> context to decide which "and" the user means at
> runtime... fine, but also complicated and, as Peter
> pointed out, bound to encounter ambiguity errors.
> 
> [trying to snip as much as possible lest these become unmanageable]
> 
> -Matt
> 
> 
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2005-04-16 Thread Matt Benson
--- Martijn Kruithof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'll use your example below to ask what will be
> (im)possible
> 
> The question is not whether the resourcecollection
> themselve need a 
> namespace, but if it would be allowed to address
> elements from the same 
> namespace, so that the default namespace declaration
> would work for the 
> entire nested  set of elements, including the
> element itself.
> 
> Why would the date have the rs namespace and the
> files not, both are 
> used inside the resourcecollection?

Because the files are (will be) a core type, like
fileset.  The selectors are where the name collisions
are, so they are what should be "packaged."

> 
> So now up to the alternatives using the names of
> above example (Same 
> letter means equivalent in XML):
> A1 (shameless copy from above)
> 
> 
>   
> 
>   pattern="/MM/dd" />
>   
> 
> 
> A2:
> 
> 
>   
> 
>   pattern="/MM/dd"
> xmlns="ant:resourceselectors"/>
>   
> 
> 
Equivalent to above.  In each example the 
collection is also part of core.
> B1 (difference files allowed / mandated to be in rs
> namespace)
> 
> 
>   
> 
>   pattern="/MM/dd" />
>   
> 
> 
This says to me that files would be a duplicate
typedef in both core and ant:resourceselectors
namespaces.

> B2:
> 
> 
>   
>  xmlns="ant:resourceselectors"/>
>   pattern="/MM/dd"
> xmlns="ant:resourceselectors"/>
>   
> 

Equivalent to above.
> 
> C1  (difference now allos restric allowed / mandated
> to be in rs 
> namespace, maybe a better name would in that case be
> resourcecollections)

I see where this is going.  First, I don't know that
there is a reason to scope all (new)
ResourceCollections out of core, as long as their
names don't conflict with existing components.
> 
> 
>   
> 
>   pattern="/MM/dd" />
>   
> 
> 
> C2:
> 
> 
>   
> 
>   pattern="/MM/dd" />
>   
> 
> 

The two above are similar, again.  I see why you would
want C2, but I am fairly unwilling to have 
live in other than core, so I'm not sure how you could
achieve it (comfortably).  C2 syntax is why you would
want restrict to live with the selectors.  That is at
least sensible, since as I said, there should be
little (no) use for resourceselectors outside the
context of .  But if the files can't live in
the rs namespace, I'm guessing you'd have:

C3:


  


  


But I don't know if that's any better, as you then
have to resolve the core type instead of the
selectors.  As for C1, assuming  will be in
core, the only difference becomes the namespace on the
 element, which is just a little more
typing, then.

> D: (no namespace at all, with the danger and
> problems of clashes, 
> extensively discuussed before.)
> 
AFAIK this would, at this point, take some good
guessing code in the core (!) or DynamicElement
processing.

> 
>   
> 
>   pattern="/MM/dd" />
>   
> 
> 
> Are there any other variations possible, are variant
> A-D feasible, and 
> what is best. (I'd currently say B or C)
> 
I never claim to know what's best (or at least I don't
think I do).

-Matt


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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-04-16 Thread Martijn Kruithof
Matt Benson wrote:
--- Martijn Kruithof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[SNIP]
 

Apart from the variands A and B further below, would
the following also 
work?



  
  
  
  


or would this mean that the resoursecollection must
be part of set itself?
   

As I understand it, yes, because the xmlns was
declared on the resourcecollection element.  I am
having a hard time following your exact example here
because I'm not sure how you are imagining the
ResourceCollections to look, while I know what they
look like.  :)
 

I'll use your example below to ask what will be (im)possible
I don't see that the ResourceCollections themselves
need a namespace. 

The question is not whether the resourcecollection themselve need a 
namespace, but if it would be allowed to address elements from the same 
namespace, so that the default namespace declaration would work for the 
entire nested  set of elements, including the element itself.

I have modified FileSet and similar
existing types to implement ResourceCollection. 
Really the whole problem goes back to and/or/not, etc.
"The Princess and the Pea."  Anyway, I translate your
example above as:


 
   
   
   
   
 

 

Why would the date have the rs namespace and the files not, both are 
used inside the resourcecollection?

Does that make sense?
-Matt
 

So now up to the alternatives using the names of above example (Same 
letter means equivalent in XML):
A1 (shameless copy from above)


 
   
   
 


A2:

 
   
   
 

B1 (difference files allowed / mandated to be in rs namespace)

 
   
   
 


B2:

 
   
   
 

C1  (difference now allos restric allowed / mandated to be in rs 
namespace, maybe a better name would in that case be resourcecollections)


 
   
   
 


C2:

 
   
   
 


D: (no namespace at all, with the danger and problems of clashes, 
extensively discuussed before.)


 
   
   
 


Are there any other variations possible, are variant A-D feasible, and 
what is best. (I'd currently say B or C)

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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-04-15 Thread Matt Benson
--- Martijn Kruithof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[SNIP]
> 
> Apart from the variands A and B further below, would
> the following also 
> work?
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
>
>
>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> or would this mean that the resoursecollection must
> be part of set itself?

As I understand it, yes, because the xmlns was
declared on the resourcecollection element.  I am
having a hard time following your exact example here
because I'm not sure how you are imagining the
ResourceCollections to look, while I know what they
look like.  :)

I don't see that the ResourceCollections themselves
need a namespace.  I have modified FileSet and similar
existing types to implement ResourceCollection. 
Really the whole problem goes back to and/or/not, etc.
 "The Princess and the Pea."  Anyway, I translate your
example above as:


  




  


Does that make sense?

-Matt



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RE: ResourceCollections

2005-04-15 Thread Dominique Devienne
> From: Martijn Kruithof [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >Martijn, Matt, the example above would be necessary if and only
> >if  only had a add(ResourceSelector). In
> >practice, we'll likely have specialized addAnd(ResourceSelector) and
co
> >so that if can be written just:
> >
> >
>  > 
> 
> But wouldn't that defeat the whole purpose of the  here> I thought the whole point was avoiding having addConcrete in
> favour of having add(Role).

'guess so. I'm just worried than forcing to use XML namespaces
even for a built-in Ant type would generate some push-back...

And to avoid using XML NS, we'd have to come up with a mechanism
that puts in scope only names for the roles accepted by the current
class/instance, which will also get push back it looks like.

Which is why I was proposing to have both add(Type) and specialized
addXyz(Type) in Ant itself, while I could use just add(Type) and
XML NS on my end ;-) I guess I was kind of ignoring the burden that
puts on the implementer in Ant itself... --DD

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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-04-15 Thread Martijn Kruithof

But wouldn't that defeat the whole purpose of the  I thought the whole point was avoiding having addConcrete in 
favour of having add(Role).
What basically is that what Matt just stated.
Apart from the variands A and B further below, would the following also 
work?



  
  
  
  


or would this mean that the resoursecollection must be part of set itself?
===A===


  
  
  
  


 
===B===







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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-04-15 Thread Martijn Kruithof
Dominique Devienne wrote:

Martijn, Matt, the example above would be necessary if and only
if  only had a add(ResourceSelector). In
practice, we'll likely have specialized addAnd(ResourceSelector) and co
so that if can be written just:
 

> 
But wouldn't that defeat the whole purpose of the  I thought the whole point was avoiding having addConcrete in 
favour of having add(Role).

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RE: ResourceCollections

2005-04-15 Thread Matt Benson
--- Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Martijn, Matt, the example above would be necessary
> if and only
> if  only had a
> add(ResourceSelector). In
> practice, we'll likely have specialized
> addAnd(ResourceSelector) and co
> so that if can be written just:

oh, that's partly what I was trying to avoid.  Part of
the beauty, to me, of some of the latest introspection
code is the ability to use add() methods.  It makes me
unhappy to have to specify element names in my
configuration methods where there is no ambiguity. 
For example, if you have to add multiple elements of
the same type to be used for different purposes, then
okay, how else would you know which was which?  But in
the case of the  ResourceCollection (which
is the context for ResourceSelectors), why should I
have to support addAnd(), addOr(), addNot(),
addNone(), addMajority, etc., etc., when I could code
add(ResourceSelector) and be done with it?  That takes
us back to either forcing the explicit declaration at
all times or trying to code something that uses
context to decide which "and" the user means at
runtime... fine, but also complicated and, as Peter
pointed out, bound to encounter ambiguity errors.

[trying to snip as much as possible lest these become
unmanageable]

-Matt



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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-04-15 Thread Matt Benson
--- Martijn Kruithof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well that would be up to the "user". Would it mean
> for us that the code 
> must be in different libraries, or is it enough if
> the classes are 
> defined in separate property files / marked with
> special values, while 
> the classes can still be blended in in core ant.

right, what I have been working with is to remove the
restriction against "ant:.*" namespaces (from
AntlibDefinition).  The classes are as you guessed in
the core.  All this really is, is creating a shorthand
for our own antlibs, for scoping.  "By role" is just a
convenient way to separate the overlapping component
names, which cause the immediate need for something
along these lines.  So the easy rule is, in RE terms,
"ant:(.*)" -> "load resource
org.apache.tools.ant.\1.xml" as an antlib.

So far this seems to me to be a good solution in terms
of simplicity of implementation, and probably as good
as possible in terms of ease of use while achieving
full qualification for overlapping component names.

-Matt
> 
> Martijn
> 
> Matt Benson wrote:
> 
> >You are using my preferred syntax.  Also available
> >would be, e.g.:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Is this te direction we are going with "roles":
> >>
> >> >>   xmlns:co="ant:condition"
> >>xmlns:set="ant:set">
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> date="2005/04/15"/>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> 
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RE: ResourceCollections

2005-04-15 Thread Dominique Devienne
> From: Martijn Kruithof [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Is this te direction we are going with "roles":
> 
> xmlns:co="ant:condition"
> xmlns:set="ant:resourceselector">
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Whao, I'm getting this email exchange out-of-order! Weird.

Martijn, Matt, the example above would be necessary if and only
if  only had a add(ResourceSelector). In
practice, we'll likely have specialized addAnd(ResourceSelector) and co
so that if can be written just:

> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

The NS prefix would be necessary only in 3rd party custom task that only
have a add(ResourceSelector) method and none of the specialized add
methods. And even then, the 3rd party can still decide to add the
specialized adds.

So really the need to NS prefix roles appears in specific cases only:
1) In build files where XML namespaces are used and 'welcome'.
2) When there's a possible ambiguity with another role, for example
   in a class with both a add(Condition) and a add(FileSelector).

I want to stress that we're not forcing everyone to use XML namespaces
if we create these role AntLibs. --DD

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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-04-15 Thread Martijn Kruithof
Well that would be up to the "user". Would it mean for us that the code 
must be in different libraries, or is it enough if the classes are 
defined in separate property files / marked with special values, while 
the classes can still be blended in in core ant.

Martijn
Matt Benson wrote:
You are using my preferred syntax.  Also available
would be, e.g.:





 

Is this te direction we are going with "roles":


   
   
   
   


   


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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-04-15 Thread Matt Benson
You are using my preferred syntax.  Also available
would be, e.g.:







-Matt

--- Martijn Kruithof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Matt Benson wrote:
> 
> >--- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Matt Benson
> >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Please don't.  If I'm going to dump this
> >>>ResourceCollection stuff into HEAD I'd rather
> have
> >>>this resolved first, and right now only five
> >>>committers have shown any interest in this
> aspect!
> >>>  
> >>>
> >> :)
> >>
> >>For the record, I'd like some explicit way to say
> >>"this is the 
> >>usable as Condition" in some way.  Guess that
> makes
> >>me pro-roles.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Thanks for speaking on the record.  :)  So roles
> must
> >either come from some form of antlib (vote ant:role
> !)
> >or... what?
> >
> >-Matt
> >
> At first I thought I understood the discussion, I am
> trying to catch up, 
> but now I completely lost it. I am trying to imagine
> what it would mean 
> in a trivial build file.
> 
> Is this te direction we are going with "roles":
> 
> xmlns:co="ant:condition"
> xmlns:set="ant:set">
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-04-15 Thread Martijn Kruithof
Matt Benson wrote:
--- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Matt Benson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
   

Please don't.  If I'm going to dump this
ResourceCollection stuff into HEAD I'd rather have
this resolved first, and right now only five
committers have shown any interest in this aspect!
 

:)
For the record, I'd like some explicit way to say
"this is the 
usable as Condition" in some way.  Guess that makes
me pro-roles.
   

Thanks for speaking on the record.  :)  So roles must
either come from some form of antlib (vote ant:role !)
or... what?
-Matt
At first I thought I understood the discussion, I am trying to catch up, 
but now I completely lost it. I am trying to imagine what it would mean 
in a trivial build file.

Is this te direction we are going with "roles":


   
   
   
   


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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-04-15 Thread Matt Benson

--- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Matt Benson
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Please don't.  If I'm going to dump this
> > ResourceCollection stuff into HEAD I'd rather have
> > this resolved first, and right now only five
> > committers have shown any interest in this aspect!
>  :)
> 
> For the record, I'd like some explicit way to say
> "this is the 
> usable as Condition" in some way.  Guess that makes
> me pro-roles.

Thanks for speaking on the record.  :)  So roles must
either come from some form of antlib (vote ant:role !)
or... what?

-Matt

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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-04-14 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Please don't.  If I'm going to dump this
> ResourceCollection stuff into HEAD I'd rather have
> this resolved first, and right now only five
> committers have shown any interest in this aspect!  :)

For the record, I'd like some explicit way to say "this is the 
usable as Condition" in some way.  Guess that makes me pro-roles.

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RE: ResourceCollections

2005-04-11 Thread Matt Benson
--- Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[SNIP]
> Don't worry, I'll stop rambling on this topic ;-)
> --DD
> 
Please don't.  If I'm going to dump this
ResourceCollection stuff into HEAD I'd rather have
this resolved first, and right now only five
committers have shown any interest in this aspect!  :)

-Matt

> 
> * for lack of a specific term for these types
> implementing
>   a particular interface, I'm calling them role.
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RE: ResourceCollections

2005-04-11 Thread Dominique Devienne
> From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Thu, 07 Apr 2005, Peter Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > We should be able to make all the current conditions, selectors and
> > filters be typedefs.
> 
> +1

As I wrote on the same thread, I'm starting to think that adding roles*
as typedefs in the 'global' Ant namespace may not be desirable.

Yes, it solves the problem I was describing of having to manually
typedef them, but it does not solve the name-collisions, and it
introduces a bunch of names in the 'global' Ant namespace. That itself
is a problem IMHO, but also these roles are not real types, but some
implementation of an interface to use in the contact of another
task/type making use of that interface.

Granted, it's not a big deal, and it may be too late to change that, but
if we had roledefs, we could only consult these name/classname mappings
in the
context of add(Type) methods, and ignore them when mapping name to
classname at the top-level, or inside targets/TaskContainers.

Don't worry, I'll stop rambling on this topic ;-) --DD


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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-04-11 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Thu, 07 Apr 2005, Peter Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> We should be able to make all the current conditions, selectors and
> filters be typedefs.

+1

> There are only a few name over-laps:
>and, or, not  (selectors and conditions)

and we need to solve them - there will be more to come, in particular
more plaggable things where boolean combinations will make sense.  An
 that can be used as condition or selector simply won't scale
here.

What is the alternative to placing the typedefs corresponding to the
different versions of  into separate antlibs?  roles?

Stefan

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RE: ResourceCollections

2005-04-08 Thread Matt Benson
This was so well put-together I have little to add,
though I will say that after having had time to absorb
Peter's proposed alternative container, I am probably
not as negative about about it as Dominique.  The
point that this type of fix would require maintenance
however certainly seems valid.  My only other question
would be, what was the intent of reserving the "ant:*"
namespace "protocol" in the first place?

-Matt


--- Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > From: Peter Reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > I do not like "ant:mappers", etc
> 
> I don't have much of a problem with it myself now.
> It's been argued, winning me over, that the ant:
> prefix
> is already reserved, and thus it's an acceptable
> solution
> solution to this problem, and Matt idea of loading
> role.xml
> for ant: is elegant enough, no?
> 
> > This does not use the method "antlib: name>" that antlibs
> > are meant to be identified by. If "ant: core wants>" is
> > used to identify ant's antlibs', then there is
> ample reason for
> > thirdparty antlibs authors to ask for "easy to
> use" XML uri
> > identifications for their antlibs.
> 
> As I wrote earlier I also like the antlib:
> convention.
> That's what I proposed we used in the first place.
> But others
> think it's too verbose. Surely you can see where
> they're coming
> from Peter ;-)
> 
> > For core ant types, I do not think it is a good
> idea - the namespace
> > syntax will "get in the way".
> 
> Not really. Within Ant itself, you would never need
> to specify
> NS for mappers, selectors, etc... Because Ant types
> using them,
> instead of having one elegant add(FileSelector)
> method, they have
> tons of add(FileSelector).
> 
> The need for namespaced types arises for 3rd party
> which do use
> the more elegant and extensible add(Type) methods!
> 
> Use a namespace is tons more elegant than having to
> explicitly
> typedef each one you want to use like I had to do.
> If you refuse
> to add role-specific antlibs, then I'll have to
> define them
> myself in my custom AntLib, which clearly breaks
> encapsulation.
> 
> > For about a year now, new mappers, conditions,
> selectors and filters
> > have been added by making them typedefs.
> 
> If so, why did I need to typedef the date and size
> selectors
> when I'm using Ant 1.6.2?
> 
> > We should be able to make all the current
> conditions, selectors and
> > filters be typedefs.
> 
> But then you're polluting the global namespace IMHO.
> 
> Types where originally for elements that could stand
> on their
> own at the top level, or directly inside targets.
> All these
> new types you are defining in the global namespace
> OTOH are
> meant to be used only in a very narrow context,
> within another
> (real) type or task.
> 
> > There are only a few name over-laps:
> >and, or, not  (selectors and conditions)
> > 
> > Of course this will change with the selectors for
> the
> > new resource collections,  - but it may be
> possible to
> > be clever.
> 
> Precisely. We already have name conflicts, and it
> will
> only get worse. Namespaces are meant to resolve name
> conflicts. Lets try to not get too clever trying to
> implement another mechanism for this.
> 
> > It is quite easy to write a type that is a
> container for
> > selectors and conditions (attached) that will act
> as a
> > container for selectors or for conditions.
> 
> It's my turn to not like this. As you say, it's
> clever,
> but now you're writing code to disambiguate name
> clashes,
> and the more name clashes appear, the more you write
> code...
> 
> 
> So to summarize, you Peter don't need to use any
> namespace
> when using Ant roles, because you're likely to use
> then in
> the context of Ant types/tasks, which have
> specialized add
> or create method for them.
> 
> I, otoh, but using the new flexible add(Type)
> method, have
> forced to use namespaced Ant roles (mapper,
> selector), and
> that's perfectly alright with me.
> 
> It is my opinion that Ant roles should *NOT* be
> added as
> types (if some were, then for BC reason they can
> stay that
> way, but only if they appeared in an official
> release), to
> avoid polluting the global namespace.
> 
> As a consequence, like I said in the first place, we
> need to
> define Role-specific AntLibs (and thus namespaces).
> And I
> personally don't care if we use ant: or
> antlib:.
> What I wanted in the first place, and still want
> obviously,
> is for these to be defined, so I don't have to
> explicitly
> typedef myself pre-defined Ant role impls in my
> build script.
> 
> If somehow we go your proposed put-them-all-as-types
> route,
> then I also won't have to typedef them explicitly,
> which I
> like, but we haven't resolved the name conflicts at
> all.
> And your proposed clever solution to this is not an
> acceptable
> solution to me (at this point).
> 
> The ideal solution would be in fact to allow
> registering
> several classes/types under the same name, and the
> Ant runtime
> to pick the

RE: ResourceCollections

2005-04-07 Thread Dominique Devienne
> From: Peter Reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I do not like "ant:mappers", etc

I don't have much of a problem with it myself now.
It's been argued, winning me over, that the ant: prefix
is already reserved, and thus it's an acceptable solution
solution to this problem, and Matt idea of loading role.xml
for ant: is elegant enough, no?

> This does not use the method "antlib:" that antlibs
> are meant to be identified by. If "ant:" is
> used to identify ant's antlibs', then there is ample reason for
> thirdparty antlibs authors to ask for "easy to use" XML uri
> identifications for their antlibs.

As I wrote earlier I also like the antlib: convention.
That's what I proposed we used in the first place. But others
think it's too verbose. Surely you can see where they're coming
from Peter ;-)

> For core ant types, I do not think it is a good idea - the namespace
> syntax will "get in the way".

Not really. Within Ant itself, you would never need to specify
NS for mappers, selectors, etc... Because Ant types using them,
instead of having one elegant add(FileSelector) method, they have
tons of add(FileSelector).

The need for namespaced types arises for 3rd party which do use
the more elegant and extensible add(Type) methods!

Use a namespace is tons more elegant than having to explicitly
typedef each one you want to use like I had to do. If you refuse
to add role-specific antlibs, then I'll have to define them
myself in my custom AntLib, which clearly breaks encapsulation.

> For about a year now, new mappers, conditions, selectors and filters
> have been added by making them typedefs.

If so, why did I need to typedef the date and size selectors
when I'm using Ant 1.6.2?

> We should be able to make all the current conditions, selectors and
> filters be typedefs.

But then you're polluting the global namespace IMHO.

Types where originally for elements that could stand on their
own at the top level, or directly inside targets. All these
new types you are defining in the global namespace OTOH are
meant to be used only in a very narrow context, within another
(real) type or task.

> There are only a few name over-laps:
>and, or, not  (selectors and conditions)
> 
> Of course this will change with the selectors for the
> new resource collections,  - but it may be possible to
> be clever.

Precisely. We already have name conflicts, and it will
only get worse. Namespaces are meant to resolve name
conflicts. Lets try to not get too clever trying to
implement another mechanism for this.

> It is quite easy to write a type that is a container for
> selectors and conditions (attached) that will act as a
> container for selectors or for conditions.

It's my turn to not like this. As you say, it's clever,
but now you're writing code to disambiguate name clashes,
and the more name clashes appear, the more you write code...


So to summarize, you Peter don't need to use any namespace
when using Ant roles, because you're likely to use then in
the context of Ant types/tasks, which have specialized add
or create method for them.

I, otoh, but using the new flexible add(Type) method, have
forced to use namespaced Ant roles (mapper, selector), and
that's perfectly alright with me.

It is my opinion that Ant roles should *NOT* be added as
types (if some were, then for BC reason they can stay that
way, but only if they appeared in an official release), to
avoid polluting the global namespace.

As a consequence, like I said in the first place, we need to
define Role-specific AntLibs (and thus namespaces). And I
personally don't care if we use ant: or antlib:.
What I wanted in the first place, and still want obviously,
is for these to be defined, so I don't have to explicitly
typedef myself pre-defined Ant role impls in my build script.

If somehow we go your proposed put-them-all-as-types route,
then I also won't have to typedef them explicitly, which I
like, but we haven't resolved the name conflicts at all.
And your proposed clever solution to this is not an acceptable
solution to me (at this point).

The ideal solution would be in fact to allow registering
several classes/types under the same name, and the Ant runtime
to pick the one type for which isA(Type) is true, fort the Type
at hand, failing with an Ambiguous error if more that one such
type exists. This way, you could register AndSelector and
AndCondition with , and use the 1st in the context of
add(FileSelector), and the 2nd when with an add(Condition).
This doesn't eliminate all conflicts, as for example your
ContainerConditionOrSelect has both, it would be Ambiguous
still.

To me, using role-specific AntLibs is simply the only foul
proof solution to name conflicts, that fits the existing
behavior of Ant. --DD


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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-04-07 Thread Peter Reilly
I meant to reply earlier...
I do not like "ant:mappers", etc
This does not use the method "antlib:" that antlibs are meant
to be identified by. If "ant:" is used to identify 
ant's antlibs', then
there is ample reason for thirdparty antlibs authors to ask for "easy to 
use" XML uri identifications
for their antlibs.

I like using antlibs for thirdparty drop-in jars - antcontrib, groovy, 
jware_antx, site specific types
and tasks.

For core ant types, I do not think it is a good idea - the namespace 
syntax will "get in the way".

For about a year now, new mappers, conditions, selectors and filters 
have been added by
making them typedefs.

We should be able to make all the current conditions, selectors and 
filters be typedefs.

There are only a few name over-laps:
  and, or, not  (selectors and conditions)
Of course this will change with the selectors for the new resource 
collectoioons,  - but it may be possible to
be clever.

It is quite easy to write a type that is a container for selectors and 
conditions (attached) that
will act as a container for selectors or for conditions.

And condition
And selector
Available condition
Checksum condition
ClassConstants filter
Contains condition
ContainsRegex filter
ContainsRegexp selector
Contains selector
Custom selector
Date selector
DeleteCharacters filter
Depend selector
Depth selector
Different selector
Equals condition
EscapeUnicode filter
ExpandProperties filter
Filename selector
FilesMatch condition
FilterReader filter
HeadFilter filter
Http condition
IgnoreBlank filter
IsFalse condition
IsReference condition
IsSet condition
IsTrue condition
LineContains filter
LineContainsRegExp filter
Majority selector
Modified selector
None selector
Not condition
Not selector
Or condition
Or selector
Os condition
PrefixLines filter
Present selector
ReplaceRegex filter
ReplaceString filter
ReplaceTokens filter
Selector selector
Size selector
Socket condition
StripJavaComments filter
StripLineBreaks filter
StripLineComments filter
TabsToSpaces filter
TailFilter filter
TokenFilter filter
Trim filter
TypeFound condition
Type selector
Uptodate condition
Peter
Matt Benson wrote:
--- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

IIRC we've reserved "ant" as "protocol" as well as
"antlib", even
though I can't find any reference to that in out
manual.  Using that
we certainly could shorten things:
ant:mappers
ant:fileselectors
ant:resourceselectors
ant:conditions
   

I'd like to hear Peter's thoughts on this since AFAICT
he added the restriction against ant: uris in
AntlibDefinition.  With that restriction lifted, I
have working a system whereby "ant:foo" loads resource
org/apache/tools/ant/foo.xml as an Antlib.
-Matt
 

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Description: java/


MultiTypeOr.java
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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-04-06 Thread Matt Benson
--- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> IIRC we've reserved "ant" as "protocol" as well as
> "antlib", even
> though I can't find any reference to that in out
> manual.  Using that
> we certainly could shorten things:
> 
> ant:mappers
> ant:fileselectors
> ant:resourceselectors
> ant:conditions

I'd like to hear Peter's thoughts on this since AFAICT
he added the restriction against ant: uris in
AntlibDefinition.  With that restriction lifted, I
have working a system whereby "ant:foo" loads resource
org/apache/tools/ant/foo.xml as an Antlib.

-Matt
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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-04-04 Thread Matt Benson
--- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> IIRC we've reserved "ant" as "protocol" as well as
> "antlib", even
> though I can't find any reference to that in out
> manual.
[SNIP]

ant:current is declared in oata.ProjectHelper , so
there's the precedent for the protocol and whatever
follows to mean whatever we want it to, no?

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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-04-04 Thread Matt Benson
--- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> IIRC we've reserved "ant" as "protocol" as well as
> "antlib", even
> though I can't find any reference to that in out
> manual.  Using that
> we certainly could shorten things:
> 
> ant:mappers
> ant:fileselectors
> ant:resourceselectors
> ant:conditions

I wondered about that.  I just think--with my user hat
on--the shorter it is, the easier a feature is to use
(and therefore more likely it will be used).  Perhaps
the use of a specific protocol would appease some of
the concerns floating around, particularly Jesse's?

-Matt

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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-04-04 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > What's difficult already?
>> > It's like a Java import basically.
>> > You declare what you're using. What's wrong with
>> > that? --DD
>> 
>> hmm... using the project attributes:
>> 
>> >  xmlns:fs="antlib:org.apache.tools.ant.types.selectors"
>>
> xmlns:rs="antlib:org.apache.tools.ant.types.resources.selectors"
>>  xmlns:ac="antlib:net.sf.antcontrib">
>> 
>> It's just the package names are quite long.  Could we
>> auto-alias the uris so that the user setup might be
>> like below?
>> 
>> >  xmlns:fs="ant.fileselectors"
>>  xmlns:rs="ant.resourceselectors">
> 
> I'd prefer at least
> 
> antlib:org.apache.ant.mappers

IIRC we've reserved "ant" as "protocol" as well as "antlib", even
though I can't find any reference to that in out manual.  Using that
we certainly could shorten things:

ant:mappers
ant:fileselectors
ant:resourceselectors
ant:conditions

Stefan

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RE: ResourceCollections

2005-04-02 Thread Phil Weighill-Smith
I believe that using an undeclared prefix doesn't make the XML not well-formed 
it makes the XML "invalid" (i.e. a validating parser will barf) [1]. I think 
"well formed" simply means all the right syntax (element and attribute 
declarations are correct, and are all correctly closed/nested).
 
[1] http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/dist/1.1/docs/tutorial/glossary.html#wellFormed
 
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Subject: RE: ResourceCollections



> From: Peter Reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Matt Benson wrote:
> >I also like the idea of using antlibs, but do we then
> >indicate that the user must explicitly set up the
> >namespace prefixes or do we assign them automagically?
> > If the former, will anybody use them?  If the latter,
> >what prefixes to use?
> >
> The user must explicitly set them up.

Right. NS prefixes are irrelevant really.
The user picks whatever she likes.

And you can't automagically assign them.
Using an undeclared NS prefix makes the XML
document not well-formed, AFAIK. --DD

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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-04-02 Thread Jesse Glick
Matt Benson wrote:
Could we
auto-alias the uris so that the user setup might be
like

?
-0.5 for anything which makes the XMLNS rules for Ant scripts more 
complicated (and divergent from the natural interpretation of XMLNS 
semantics) than they already are...

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RE: ResourceCollections

2005-04-01 Thread Matt Benson

--- Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It's just the package names are quite long.  Could
> we
> > auto-alias the uris so that the user setup might
> be
> > like below?
> > 
> >  >  xmlns:fs="ant.fileselectors"
> >  xmlns:rs="ant.resourceselectors">
> 
> I'd prefer at least
> 
> antlib:org.apache.ant.mappers
> antlib:org.apache.ant.selectors
> antlib:org.apache.ant.rescources.selectors
> 
> And we have the choice of (1) actually putting the
> antlib.xml
> files in these directories, or (2) create yet
> another mechanism
> to map an AntLib URI to its actual XML descriptor.
> 
> (we have one already with  I think, but I'd
> prefer
> to stay with an automagic URI approach).
> 
> I could leave with (1).
> 
> For (2), we could use
> META-INF/services/antlibs.properties, which
> would contain a mapping URI (w/o antlib: prefix for
> example) to
> Descriptor Resource:
> 
> org.apache.ant.selectors
> org/apache/tools/ant/types/selectors/antlib.xml
> 
> (1) is simpler to put in place.
> (2) is more flexible, but may be a little too much
> indirection.

If we choose (1), maybe we should create a new
directory src/resources (Java, not Ant) for those
non-Java config files that are supposed to live in
ant.jar .  This way we don't pollute the codebase in
such a confusing manner.

-Matt
> 
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RE: ResourceCollections

2005-04-01 Thread Dominique Devienne
> > What's difficult already?
> > It's like a Java import basically.
> > You declare what you're using. What's wrong with
> > that? --DD
> 
> hmm... using the project attributes:
> 
>   xmlns:fs="antlib:org.apache.tools.ant.types.selectors"
>
xmlns:rs="antlib:org.apache.tools.ant.types.resources.selectors"
>  xmlns:ac="antlib:net.sf.antcontrib">
> 
> It's just the package names are quite long.  Could we
> auto-alias the uris so that the user setup might be
> like below?
> 
>   xmlns:fs="ant.fileselectors"
>  xmlns:rs="ant.resourceselectors">

I'd prefer at least

antlib:org.apache.ant.mappers
antlib:org.apache.ant.selectors
antlib:org.apache.ant.rescources.selectors

And we have the choice of (1) actually putting the antlib.xml
files in these directories, or (2) create yet another mechanism
to map an AntLib URI to its actual XML descriptor.

(we have one already with  I think, but I'd prefer
to stay with an automagic URI approach).

I could leave with (1).

For (2), we could use META-INF/services/antlibs.properties, which
would contain a mapping URI (w/o antlib: prefix for example) to
Descriptor Resource:

org.apache.ant.selectors org/apache/tools/ant/types/selectors/antlib.xml

(1) is simpler to put in place.
(2) is more flexible, but may be a little too much indirection.

--DD

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RE: ResourceCollections

2005-04-01 Thread Matt Benson
--- Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > assuming my concern that users wouldn't bother
> using
> > something that requires extra setup (per
> project!),
> > what other things could we do to increase
> > ease-of-setup for antlibs?
> 
> What's difficult already?
> It's like a Java import basically.
> You declare what you're using. What's wrong with
> that? --DD

hmm... using the project attributes:



It's just the package names are quite long.  Could we
auto-alias the uris so that the user setup might be
like



?

same thing for using the other URI approaches...

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RE: ResourceCollections

2005-04-01 Thread Dominique Devienne
> From: Peter Reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >what other things could we do to increase
> >ease-of-setup for antlibs?
> >
> Not use xml namespaces ;-)

Jokes apart, is that possible or desirable?

Are you having second thoughts about their use Peter?

I'm using them extensively, and like them, maybe that's just me. --DD

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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-04-01 Thread Peter Reilly
Matt Benson wrote:
what other things could we do to increase
ease-of-setup for antlibs?
 

Not use xml namespaces ;-)
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RE: ResourceCollections

2005-04-01 Thread Dominique Devienne
> First, why so? (<-- an honest question.)

I tink I answered that one ahead of time ;-)

> assuming my concern that users wouldn't bother using
> something that requires extra setup (per project!),
> what other things could we do to increase
> ease-of-setup for antlibs?

What's difficult already?
It's like a Java import basically.
You declare what you're using. What's wrong with that? --DD

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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-04-01 Thread Matt Benson
--- Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- Peter Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Matt Benson wrote:
> > 
> > >I also like the idea of using antlibs, but do we
> > then
> > >indicate that the user must explicitly set up the
> > >namespace prefixes or do we assign them
> > automagically?
> > >
> > The user must explicitly set them up.
> >
> First, why so? (<-- an honest question.) Next,

DD answered my first question.  :)

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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-04-01 Thread Matt Benson
--- Peter Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Matt Benson wrote:
> 
> >I also like the idea of using antlibs, but do we
> then
> >indicate that the user must explicitly set up the
> >namespace prefixes or do we assign them
> automagically?
> > If the former, will anybody use them?  If the
> latter,
> >what prefixes to use?
> >  
> >
> The user must explicitly set them up.
>
First, why so? (<-- an honest question.) Next,
assuming my concern that users wouldn't bother using
something that requires extra setup (per project!),
what other things could we do to increase
ease-of-setup for antlibs?

-Matt
 
> Peter
> 
> >-Matt
> >
> >--- Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>>From: Matt Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>3) I'd rather not hard-code selector types.
> >>>
> >>>what other options exist?  A built-in Antlib for
> >>>namespacing the ResourceSelector types?  A
> >>>DynamicElement ResourceSelectorContainer?
> >>>  
> >>>
> >>Yeah, I'm surprised we don't have these built-in
> >>AntLibs already for
> >>selectors / conditions / filterreaders / mappers,
> >>etc...
> >>
> >>Not too ago I wrote a task taking selectors using
> >>add(FileSelector), and
> >>I had to manually typedef the selectors I wanted
> to
> >>use.
> >>
> >>I'm bringing this up because if we're fixing this
> >>issue for
> >>ResourceSelector, we should fix it for all our
> >>'role's.
> >>
> >>And to me to way to fix these is indeed thru
> >>AntLibs, not DynElem.
> >>
> >>I guess we'd need these antlib URIs:
> >>
> >>antlib:org.apache.tools.ant.types.selectors
> >>antlib:org.apache.tools.ant.types.mappers
> >>etc...
> >>
> >>--DD
> >>
> >>
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RE: ResourceCollections

2005-04-01 Thread Dominique Devienne
> From: Peter Reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Matt Benson wrote:
> >I also like the idea of using antlibs, but do we then
> >indicate that the user must explicitly set up the
> >namespace prefixes or do we assign them automagically?
> > If the former, will anybody use them?  If the latter,
> >what prefixes to use?
> >
> The user must explicitly set them up.

Right. NS prefixes are irrelevant really.
The user picks whatever she likes.

And you can't automagically assign them.
Using an undeclared NS prefix makes the XML
document not well-formed, AFAIK. --DD

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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-04-01 Thread Peter Reilly
Matt Benson wrote:
I also like the idea of using antlibs, but do we then
indicate that the user must explicitly set up the
namespace prefixes or do we assign them automagically?
If the former, will anybody use them?  If the latter,
what prefixes to use?
 

The user must explicitly set them up.
Peter
-Matt
--- Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

From: Matt Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
3) I'd rather not hard-code selector types.
what other options exist?  A built-in Antlib for
namespacing the ResourceSelector types?  A
DynamicElement ResourceSelectorContainer?
 

Yeah, I'm surprised we don't have these built-in
AntLibs already for
selectors / conditions / filterreaders / mappers,
etc...
Not too ago I wrote a task taking selectors using
add(FileSelector), and
I had to manually typedef the selectors I wanted to
use.
I'm bringing this up because if we're fixing this
issue for
ResourceSelector, we should fix it for all our
'role's.
And to me to way to fix these is indeed thru
AntLibs, not DynElem.
I guess we'd need these antlib URIs:
antlib:org.apache.tools.ant.types.selectors
antlib:org.apache.tools.ant.types.mappers
etc...
--DD
   

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RE: ResourceCollections

2005-04-01 Thread Matt Benson
I also like the idea of using antlibs, but do we then
indicate that the user must explicitly set up the
namespace prefixes or do we assign them automagically?
 If the former, will anybody use them?  If the latter,
what prefixes to use?

-Matt

--- Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > From: Matt Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 3) I'd rather not hard-code selector types.
> > 
> > what other options exist?  A built-in Antlib for
> > namespacing the ResourceSelector types?  A
> > DynamicElement ResourceSelectorContainer?
> 
> Yeah, I'm surprised we don't have these built-in
> AntLibs already for
> selectors / conditions / filterreaders / mappers,
> etc...
> 
> Not too ago I wrote a task taking selectors using
> add(FileSelector), and
> I had to manually typedef the selectors I wanted to
> use.
> 
> I'm bringing this up because if we're fixing this
> issue for
> ResourceSelector, we should fix it for all our
> 'role's.
> 
> And to me to way to fix these is indeed thru
> AntLibs, not DynElem.
> 
> I guess we'd need these antlib URIs:
> 
> antlib:org.apache.tools.ant.types.selectors
> antlib:org.apache.tools.ant.types.mappers
> etc...
> 
> --DD
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RE: ResourceCollections

2005-04-01 Thread Dominique Devienne
> From: Matt Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 3) I'd rather not hard-code selector types.
> 
> what other options exist?  A built-in Antlib for
> namespacing the ResourceSelector types?  A
> DynamicElement ResourceSelectorContainer?

Yeah, I'm surprised we don't have these built-in AntLibs already for
selectors / conditions / filterreaders / mappers, etc...

Not too ago I wrote a task taking selectors using add(FileSelector), and
I had to manually typedef the selectors I wanted to use.

I'm bringing this up because if we're fixing this issue for
ResourceSelector, we should fix it for all our 'role's.

And to me to way to fix these is indeed thru AntLibs, not DynElem.

I guess we'd need these antlib URIs:

antlib:org.apache.tools.ant.types.selectors
antlib:org.apache.tools.ant.types.mappers
etc...

--DD

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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-04-01 Thread Matt Benson
If we are going to add a ResourceSelector,

1) the interface and implementations will primarily be
relevant only to the "restrict" ResourceCollection.

2) things like And, Or, Not will be needed.

3) I'd rather not hard-code selector types.

what other options exist?  A built-in Antlib for
namespacing the ResourceSelector types?  A
DynamicElement ResourceSelectorContainer?

Thanks for any thoughts,
Matt

--- Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Matt Benson
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > > We are adding getInputStream to Resource. 
> > However,
> > > without changing the FileSelector interface
> (bad),
> > 
> > more than bad.
> > 
> > > its ability to interact with Resources is
> limited.
> >  We could
> > > possibly create a new ResourceSelector
> interface.
> > 
> > I think we should.
> 
> This will be interesting.  Guess we will have to
> mimic
> FileSelectors.
> 
> > 
> > > If so, does this tip the scale in favor of one
> or
> > more new types
> > > subpackages?
> > 
> > Even without them I think a new package would be
> > better.
> 
> Wow, I've never made a new CVS directory before...
> :)
> 
> -Matt
> 
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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-04-01 Thread Matt Benson
--- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Matt Benson
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > We are adding getInputStream to Resource. 
> However,
> > without changing the FileSelector interface (bad),
> 
> more than bad.
> 
> > its ability to interact with Resources is limited.
>  We could
> > possibly create a new ResourceSelector interface.
> 
> I think we should.

This will be interesting.  Guess we will have to mimic
FileSelectors.

> 
> > If so, does this tip the scale in favor of one or
> more new types
> > subpackages?
> 
> Even without them I think a new package would be
> better.

Wow, I've never made a new CVS directory before... :)

-Matt

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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-04-01 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> We are adding getInputStream to Resource.  However,
> without changing the FileSelector interface (bad),

more than bad.

> its ability to interact with Resources is limited.  We could
> possibly create a new ResourceSelector interface.

I think we should.

> If so, does this tip the scale in favor of one or more new types
> subpackages?

Even without them I think a new package would be better.

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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-03-31 Thread Matt Benson
--- Antoine Levy-Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I find this interesting.
> I wonder whether resources should not provide an
> InputStream or something
> like that. Because of selectors.

We are adding getInputStream to Resource.  However,
without changing the FileSelector interface (bad), its
ability to interact with Resources is limited.  We
could possibly create a new ResourceSelector
interface.  If so I'd like to get that nailed down
before I drop this stuff into HEAD, since selectors
are integral to the  ResourceCollection
type.  Do we think a ResourceSelector interface is
necessary?  If so, does this tip the scale in favor of
one or more new types subpackages?

Thanks,
Matt
> 
> Cheers,
> Antoine
> > 
> > --- Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > To stay on the same thread, I have been
> developing
> > > in
> > > oata.types .  So far I have probably about 15
> > > classes
> > > to add to this package.  Any opinions on whether
> we
> > > need oata.types.resource ?
> > 
> > or more probably, "resources" so we don't freak
> out
> > Windows for example... :) ?
> > > 
> > > -Matt
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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-03-31 Thread Antoine Levy-Lambert
I find this interesting.
I wonder whether resources should not provide an InputStream or something
like that. Because of selectors.

Cheers,
Antoine
> 
> --- Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > classes
> > to add to this package.  Any opinions on whether we
> > need oata.types.resource ?
> 
> or more probably, "resources" so we don't freak out
> Windows for example... :) ?
> > 
> > -Matt
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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-03-31 Thread Matt Benson

--- Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To stay on the same thread, I have been developing
> in
> oata.types .  So far I have probably about 15
> classes
> to add to this package.  Any opinions on whether we
> need oata.types.resource ?

or more probably, "resources" so we don't freak out
Windows for example... :) ?
> 
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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-03-31 Thread Matt Benson
To stay on the same thread, I have been developing in
oata.types .  So far I have probably about 15 classes
to add to this package.  Any opinions on whether we
need oata.types.resource ?

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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-03-31 Thread Matt Benson
--- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Matt Benson
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > --- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >> Have you modified AbstractFileSet or the
> individual
> >> subclasses?
> > 
> > Good question; I almost answered it in the
> original
> > mail.  I figured we had little control over what
> > happens to AFS children so I implemented the new
> > interface in FileSet and DirSet directly.
> 
> So ZipFileSet and ClassFileSet are not
> ResourceCollections right now?

Most *FileSet types actually extend FileSet.  I forgot
to include ZipFileSet in the list of existing classes
I have updated, but I have and it is working as
expected.  ClassFileSet IIRC should cleanly inherit
FileSet's ResourceCollection behavior based on my
inspection of the code.  I will try to add that to my
unit tests.

> 
> There certainly may be AFS children that are no good
> candidates for
> ResourceCollections so your choice seems logical,
> still people may
> expect to have a ResourceCollection when they extend
> AFS.  Could be a
> matter of clear documentation.

Possibly, although since the AFS javadoc already would
NOT include ResourceCollection as an implemented
interface I'm not sure what else we could do besides
explicitly add a reminder of that fact.  :)
> 
> >> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Matt Benson
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >> > 2) should there be a reference-only (resources)
> type that can
> >> > generically use a ResourceCollection of an
> unknown type?
> >> 
> >> What would it be used for?
> > 
> > The idea of "this task creates a
> ResourceCollection
> > with the specified reference."  Okay, I invoke the
> > task, now I have a reference to an RC, but I don't
> > know its type, thus 
> 
> I see.  So to answer your original question, yes, I
> think there should
> be one.
> 
Thanks again,
Matt

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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-03-31 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> Have you modified AbstractFileSet or the individual
>> subclasses?
> 
> Good question; I almost answered it in the original
> mail.  I figured we had little control over what
> happens to AFS children so I implemented the new
> interface in FileSet and DirSet directly.

So ZipFileSet and ClassFileSet are not ResourceCollections right now?

There certainly may be AFS children that are no good candidates for
ResourceCollections so your choice seems logical, still people may
expect to have a ResourceCollection when they extend AFS.  Could be a
matter of clear documentation.

>> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Matt Benson
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> > 2) should there be a reference-only (resources) type that can
>> > generically use a ResourceCollection of an unknown type?
>> 
>> What would it be used for?
> 
> The idea of "this task creates a ResourceCollection
> with the specified reference."  Okay, I invoke the
> task, now I have a reference to an RC, but I don't
> know its type, thus 

I see.  So to answer your original question, yes, I think there should
be one.

Stefan

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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-03-31 Thread Matt Benson
--- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Matt Benson
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Update:  I have been rolling this stuff around and
> I
> > am nearly ready to have something to show.
> 
> I really like what you've described.

well, hey! :)
> 
> > I have also modified fileset, dirset, filelist and
> > path to implement ResourceCollection.
> 
> Have you modified AbstractFileSet or the individual
> subclasses?

Good question; I almost answered it in the original
mail.  I figured we had little control over what
happens to AFS children so I implemented the new
interface in FileSet and DirSet directly.  Plus this
gives us encapsulated behavior (for the first time)
whereby a fileset consists of files and a dirset
consists of directories.

> > 1) a name for a ResourceCollection that acts like
> a
> > Union without removing duplicates.
> 
> What would it be used for?  It is not a set
> operation that way and I'm
> not familiar enough (at least the english terms of)
> with list theory
> (if there is something like that at all).  append? 
> join?

Referencing Kev's followup, I actually chose concat as
the first "real" task to adapt (I've actually already
done length and pathconvert because they are
invaluable testing aids), and this collection is one I
wanted concat to use internally, but I thought it
might be usable elsewhere.  With Kev having mentioned
"concatenate" but not having a name for the noun
created by the verb... "concatenation"?  It really
stood out since that's what I wanted it for in the
first place.  Thanks Kev!
> 
> > 2) should there be a reference-only (resources)
> type
> > that can generically use a ResourceCollection of
> an
> > unknown type?
> 
> What would it be used for?

The idea of "this task creates a ResourceCollection
with the specified reference."  Okay, I invoke the
task, now I have a reference to an RC, but I don't
know its type, thus 

> 
> > Finally, I would like to reach a consensus on the
> approach I should
> > take to adding this; dump it all into CVS HEAD or
> create a sandbox
> > area?
> 
> I'd go for CVS HEAD unless anybody else objects.

Easier for me.  :)
> 
> > If the latter, I am still a little unclear on what
> tricks could be
> > used to make it easier to use modified core code
> in a sandbox and
> > would appreciate advice from other committers.
> 
> I once did so for the input proposal and I think the
> original antlib
> code did as well.  Basically you add your versions
> of all classes that
> you need to modifiy to the sandbox and when you
> compile you make sure
> your versions are before Ant's classes in the
> CLASSPATH.
> 
That doesn't sound too bad.  :)

Thanks,
Matt

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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-03-31 Thread Kev Jackson

 

1) a name for a ResourceCollection that acts like a
Union without removing duplicates.
   

What would it be used for?  It is not a set operation that way and I'm
not familiar enough (at least the english terms of) with list theory
(if there is something like that at all).  append?  join?
 

Union is everything in two sets minus duplicates right?  And you want a 
name for everything in two "bags" (not sets) with duplicates.

the operation would be something like "concatenate", but the name for 
what it would produce [shrug]

Union is a noun (a union of something and something-else) and a verb (to 
union), not sure you'll be able to get a nice noun/verb combination for 
what you're suggesting.../me goes off to look in a thesaurus

ok how about...
"blend", noun a blend, and verb to blend
or for the more l33t
"fusion"
for the pr0n crowd
"intercourse/coupling" [snigger]
rather boring suggestions...
"association"
"syndicate"
"compound"
http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=union
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Re: ResourceCollections

2005-03-31 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Update:  I have been rolling this stuff around and I
> am nearly ready to have something to show.

I really like what you've described.

> I have also modified fileset, dirset, filelist and
> path to implement ResourceCollection.

Have you modified AbstractFileSet or the individual subclasses?

> Hopefully nobody has any major issues with this but I suppose if
> they do now is the time to get them out.

Agreed.

> 1) a name for a ResourceCollection that acts like a
> Union without removing duplicates.

What would it be used for?  It is not a set operation that way and I'm
not familiar enough (at least the english terms of) with list theory
(if there is something like that at all).  append?  join?

> 2) should there be a reference-only (resources) type
> that can generically use a ResourceCollection of an
> unknown type?

What would it be used for?

> Finally, I would like to reach a consensus on the approach I should
> take to adding this; dump it all into CVS HEAD or create a sandbox
> area?

I'd go for CVS HEAD unless anybody else objects.

> If the latter, I am still a little unclear on what tricks could be
> used to make it easier to use modified core code in a sandbox and
> would appreciate advice from other committers.

I once did so for the input proposal and I think the original antlib
code did as well.  Basically you add your versions of all classes that
you need to modifiy to the sandbox and when you compile you make sure
your versions are before Ant's classes in the CLASSPATH.

Stefan

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ResourceCollections

2005-03-30 Thread Matt Benson
Update:  I have been rolling this stuff around and I
am nearly ready to have something to show.  In
general, and as the subject line suggests, I have
decided that implementing generic file collections as
resource collections may not be too difficult, and
could really open a lot of doors.  Some highlights of
what I'm working on, some of which are direct results
of suggestions from others (Stefan, Alexey, et al):

Resource.getInputStream() returns an InputStream

interface ResourceCollection {
  // for ease of use:
  Iterator iterator();
  // makes RC more like a Collection:
  int size();
  // to allow quick distinction for file-centric
tasks:
  boolean isFilesystemOnly();
}

Some of the ResourceCollections I have implemented:
files (dir-less fileset)
union, difference, intersect (set operations)
sort (sort Resources before returning)
restrict (with selectors)

I have also modified fileset, dirset, filelist and
path to implement ResourceCollection.  Hopefully
nobody has any major issues with this but I suppose if
they do now is the time to get them out.

I intend to be ready to unveil this stuff next week,
with a few tasks modified to use ResourceCollections
as a demo.  In the meantime, I would welcome
suggestions regarding the following:

1) a name for a ResourceCollection that acts like a
Union without removing duplicates.

2) should there be a reference-only (resources) type
that can generically use a ResourceCollection of an
unknown type?

Finally, I would like to reach a consensus on the
approach I should take to adding this; dump it all
into CVS HEAD or create a sandbox area?  If the
latter, I am still a little unclear on what tricks
could be used to make it easier to use modified core
code in a sandbox and would appreciate advice from
other committers.

Thanks,
Matt

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