Output to Ant property

[Gintas Grigelionis]

I am missing a posibility to output the result of HtmlCleaner to an Ant property which would make htmlcleaner into an HTML parser for Ant. Here's an attempt to use the dist attribute using a property pseudo-URL (rather than inventing a new Ant-specific attribute and adding getter and setter for it):

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--- HtmlCleanerForAnt.java      (revision 474)
+++ HtmlCleanerForAnt.java      (working copy)
@@ -38,18 +38,21 @@
 package org.htmlcleaner;

 import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException;
+import org.apache.tools.ant.Task;

-import java.net.URL;
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
-import java.io.FileOutputStream;
-import java.util.*;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.TreeMap;

 /**
  * <p>Support for ANT.</p>
  */
-public class HtmlCleanerForAnt extends org.apache.tools.ant.Task {
+public class HtmlCleanerForAnt extends Task {

     private String text;
     private String src;
@@ -293,8 +296,13 @@
             }

             OutputStream out;
+            String antPropertyName = "";
             if ( dest == null || "".equals(dest.trim()) ) {
                 out = System.out;
+            } else if ( dest.startsWith("property:") ) {
+                out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+                antPropertyName = dest.substring(dest.indexOf(':') + 1);
+                getProject().log("Setting property " + antPropertyName);
             } else {
                 out = new FileOutputStream(dest);
             }
@@ -308,6 +316,10 @@
             } else {
                 new SimpleXmlSerializer(props).writeToStream(node, out, outcharset);
             }
+
+            if ( antPropertyName != null && antPropertyName.length() > 0 ) {
+                getProject().setNewProperty(antPropertyName, out.toString());
+            }
         } catch (IOException e) {
              throw new BuildException(e);
         } catch (XPatherException e) {

[Scott Wilson]

Added in v 2.20!