Re: Re: enhancement request for Ant event builder task

Jacob Kjome <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've never actually bothered to use the "template" attribute of the
> <build-events> tag.
And I even think you didn't used another template at all, because of your
Barracuda leadership ;-)

>  What have you used as a sample value for the "template"
> attribute?  Is it a fully qualified path to the file from the root of
> the classloader such as?...
On my tests I used a relative path, ergo not starting with "/" and it
worked. If you view the implementation of Class.getResourceAsStream() method
(Java 1.4.1):

public InputStream getResourceAsStream(String name) {
    name = resolveName(name);
    ClassLoader cl = getClassLoader0();
    if (cl==null) {
        // A system class.
        return ClassLoader.getSystemResourceAsStream(name);
    }
    return cl.getResourceAsStream(name);
}

... as you see, there is a simple delegation to the classloader.
Additionally the Java doc says:
* <p> This method delegates the call to its class loader, after making
* these changes to the resource name: if the resource name starts with
* "/", it is unchanged; otherwise, the package name is prepended to the
* resource name after converting "." to "/". If this object was loaded by
* the bootstrap loader, the call is delegated to
* <code>ClassLoader.getSystemResourceAsStream</code>.

So:

getClass().getResourceAsStream(cs.template)
getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(cs.template)

... is pretty the same.


> Oh, and try to make sure you use spaces instead of tabs with
> a 4 spaces indentation.
Sorry, I always use tabs for indentation and was too lazy to alter the IDE
configuration only for this.


Thorsten