Class RootLoaderRef

All Implemented Interfaces:
Cloneable, SelectorContainer

public class RootLoaderRef extends MatchingTask
Sets the RootLoader as reference. Reexecution of this task will set a new instance of RootLoader for the reference. arguments:
  • ref
  • classpath
all arguments are required. As ant requires an AntClassLoader as reference, this will create a RootLoader and set an AntClassLoader as child and stored in the reference. The AntClassLoader instance will not have a classpath nor will it have access to the classpath somehow, all loading is done by the RootLoader parent. To avoid problems with loading classes multiple times and using them at the same time, this task will filter out the ant jars and the commons-logging jars. This only works if the ant jars are starting with "ant-" and the logging jar starts with "commons-logging-". This was needed because if ant wants to access a task argument that uses for example a Path it look for a matching method which includes a matching class. But two classes of the same name with different classloaders are different, so ant would not be able to find the method.
Author:
Jochen Theodorou
See Also:
  • Constructor Details

    • RootLoaderRef

      public RootLoaderRef()
  • Method Details

    • setRef

      public void setRef(String n)
      sets the name of the reference which should store the Loader
    • execute

      public void execute() throws BuildException
      Overrides:
      execute in class Task
      Throws:
      BuildException
    • setClasspath

      public void setClasspath(Path classpath)
      Set the classpath to be used for this compilation.
      Parameters:
      classpath - an Ant Path object containing the compilation classpath.
    • setClasspathRef

      public void setClasspathRef(Reference r)
      Adds a reference to a classpath defined elsewhere.
      Parameters:
      r - a reference to a classpath
    • createClasspath

      public Path createClasspath()
      Adds a path to the classpath.
      Returns:
      a class path to be configured