I think it's a great idea.
Ian MacLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ian MacLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Peter,
I like the idea. See what others say and then we can look at adding it.
Your approach looks pretty much correct. Don't know why you can't build
though.
Ian
>-- Part 1 --
>Hi NAnters,
>
>I was just editing some build files and testing out some things. The
>thought occurred to me that certain tasks don't have as useful a message
>output as would sometimes be desired. Take the following task:
>
>
>
>The typical output is:
>
> [delete] Deleting 1 directories.
>
>Wouldn't it be handy to be able to do this:
>
>
>
>...and get this...
>
> [delete] Task Message: Deleting windows!!
> [delete] Deleting 1 directories.
>
>...or some variation on this.
>
>Now before someone says "Just use!", let me point out that this would
>be applicable to the task itself such that it's also affected by task
>conditions:
>
>>if="${meNotTooBright}" />
>
>Not to mention that adding this one attribute to the task base class would
>be remarkably easy and thus globally available.
>
>-- Part 2 --
>So I tried my hand at adding a "message" attribute to the Task class (using
>the 0.8.3-rc2 code) but I failed miserably. I'm not C#-enough (Get it?
>Sorry.) to figure out why it won't build (all kinds of reference errors
>which I can't seem to track down). So I figured I'd throw this up so that
>someone important who feels it's a good enough idea can put it in and make
>it actually work!
>
>Modifications to the Task base class (Task.cs):
>
>Added this var and property:
>
> string _message;
>
> ///
> /// Task specific message that is echoed if the task is executed.
>Default is blank.
> ///
> [TaskAttribute("message")]
> public string Message
> {
> get { return _message; }
> set { _message = value; }
> }
>
>Jammed this into public void Execute() right before ExecuteTask(); (approx
>line 145 in the code I had):
>
> if(_message != null){
> Log(Level.Info, LogPrefix + "Task Message: " + _message);
> }
>
>
>This is only a suggestion. If someone actually DOES make this addition, feel
>free to make the log message show appropriately according to NAnt standards
>etc. Doesn't really matter to me what it looks like, just that a message is
>shown and obviously associated with the task.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Peter
>
>
>
>
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