Would the classconstants filterreader help? See concepts and types, filterchains and filterreaders.
-Matt --- Rhino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to figure out a simple, elegant way to do > something in Java and > Ant but I keep coming up with complicated ways of > doing it. I feel as if a > simple way is easily achievable but I'm blanking out > so I hope someone here > can tell me what I'm not seeing so that I can kick > myself for overlooking > the obvious :-) > > At the start of my Ant build, I want to display the > value of a single > Constant that is sitting in one of my Java classes; > the value will be > displayed in an AntForm and the user will choose to > proceed with the build > or abort it, based on the value of that constant. > (Despite the fact that the > constant is defined to have a single value at any > one time, the user can > arbitrarily change it to a different value by simply > modifying the > initialization for the constant. This would be a > normal thing to do. The > constant in question is only able to have two > different values at the moment > but that could change to three or more somewhere > down the road.) > > If Ant could "see" the values of my constants, I'd > just refer to the > constant as > ResumeConstants.DESIRED_EMPLOYMENT_HISTORY_FORMAT > and display > that value in the AntForm. But, unless I'm > misunderstanding something, Ant > _can't_ see the values of my constants so I am > struggling for a _SIMPLE_ way > to pass that single data value to my AntForm. > > Yes, I could write a method in one of my programs to > get that value, then > write it somewhere more accessible to Ant, then have > Ant interrogate it, > store it in a property, and then display it but I > suspect there is a simpler > way to go; I just can't think of it. > > Any suggestions? > > -- > Rhino > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.3/254 - > Release Date: 08/02/2006 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
