method.condition

Description

Call a boolean method on a Java object and use it as a condition Call the boolean method with the name and parameters provided on the named object.

Implementation class

net.mdatools.modelant.util.condition.CallMethodCondition

Parameters

Attribute	Description	Type
class	The optional class to call a static method of	String
classpath	The classpath as a string to search for the class	Path
classpathRef	The classpath as a reference to search for the class	Reference
method	The name of the method to call	String
parentFirst	Indicates if the classpath should be searched first, before the standard classes (false) or use the standard classes first (true). Note that false might make different versions of the same class. Default: true	boolean
property	Set the name of the property that holds the object to process	String

Nested elements

Element

Description

parameter

Support of nested <parameter> element describing the signature of the method and the actual parameter to call it with A single parameter and of a method call & its description. It holds class name, an explicit string value or a name to find the value bound to. Invariant:

when class name is null or empty (not provided), then String class is implied. The class is searched in the standard class loader.
if value name is provided, then it defines the value to use. No type conversion is done. If no property with that name is bound, null value will be used.
if no value name provided, then the string value is used, no matter if it is provided or not and it is converted to the target class using a constructor with a single String parameter. If no string value provided, null value will be used.

 Usage: 
   
   class X extends Task {
     private final TypeValueDescriptor parameter = new TypeValueDescriptor(this); // used the constructor with Task 
   }
   
   or
 
   class X extends Task {
     public void addConfiguredY(TypeValueDescriptor parameter) { // ANT calls the constructor with the Project parameter
        parameter.setTask( this );
        ...
     }
   }

Parameters

Attribute	Description	Type
class	The name of the class of this parameter. Default: String	String
classpath	The classpath to search for the parameter's class. Default: the ANT class path	Path
classpathRef	The reference to classpath to search for the parameter's class. Default: the ANT class path	Reference
parentFirst	The if the classpath provided should be searched after the ANT classpath. Default: true	boolean
property	The name of the property that holds the value to send as a parameter value. Default: this	String
signature	The class to be used in the method' signature. Thus, a singing value and valueClassName could describe an Object parameter as a signature class name.	String
value	An explicit String value to send as a parameter value. If provided valueName is disregarded	String

Use <typedef resource="net/mdatools/modelant/util/antlib.xml"/>