RE: Use stdin as input for a forked java task
> From: Bart Golsteijn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 2 October 2003 12:16 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Use stdin as input for a forked java task > > > Why isn't this going to be implemented? Is there a large > technical problem > to implement this? If you can point out the problem, maybe I can > work it out > myself. > > Bart There are a few issues. The main issue is pumping the input into the external process. There is no way to know when or if an external process wants input. We can't know how much data to send to the external process. Since there are buffers involved, it would probably not block until we'd filled up some buffer. In that case, we'd have to consume some block of input from Ant's input stream to send to the external process. This would be before the extenral process had generated prompts, etc. With a string or file, we can safely pump as much input into the process as it will accept. The other issue comes when running multiple operations in parallel. Which one gets the input? The only possibility I could see would be to create some sort of external console to supply input to the forked process. Conor - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Use stdin as input for a forked java task
Why isn't this going to be implemented? Is there a large technical problem to implement this? If you can point out the problem, maybe I can work it out myself. Bart From: Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Use stdin as input for a forked java task Date: 01 Oct 2003 15:42:38 +0200 On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Bart Golsteijn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I saw it possible to specify an input file for a (forked) java task > in Ant 1.60. Is there (going to be) a possibility to read input from > stdin? No, at least not in 1.6. Stefan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ MSN Zoeken, voor duidelijke zoekresultaten! http://search.msn.nl - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Use stdin as input for a forked java task
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Bart Golsteijn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I saw it possible to specify an input file for a (forked) java task > in Ant 1.60. Is there (going to be) a possibility to read input from > stdin? No, at least not in 1.6. Stefan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Use stdin as input for a forked java task
I saw it possible to specify an input file for a (forked) java task in Ant 1.60. Is there (going to be) a possibility to read input from stdin? (for example 'input=-' reads from stdin) Thanks in advance, Bart _ MSN Zoeken, voor duidelijke zoekresultaten! http://search.msn.nl - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
