Register a task for use within a buildfile.

This is for registering your own tasks -- or any non-core Task -- for use within a buildfile. If you find that you are using a particular class frequently, you may want to edit the phing/tasks/defaults.properties file so that it is included by default. You may also want to submit it (if LGPL or compatible license) to be included in Phing distribution.

  
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TODO: -- possibly refactor since this is almost the same as TypeDefTask (right now these are just too simple to really justify creating an abstract class)

author Hans Lellelid
version $Id: df52def0bb44ce1b0909f5e8858e79b2ef88ca0f $
package phing.tasks.system
copyright 2001,2002 THYRELL. All rights reserved

 Methods

Create the classpath to be used when searching for component being defined

createClasspath() : \Path

Returns

Returns the textual description of the task

getDescription() : string
Inherited
inherited_from \Task::getDescription()

Returns

stringThe text description of the task

Returns the location within the buildfile this task occurs.

getLocation() : \Location
Inherited

Used by BuildException to give detailed error messages.

inherited_from \Task::getLocation()

Returns

\LocationThe location object describing the position of this task within the buildfile.

Returns the owning target of this task.

getOwningTarget() : \Target
Inherited
inherited_from \Task::getOwningTarget()

Returns

\TargetThe target object that owns this task

Returns a reference to current project

getProject() : \Project
Inherited
inherited_from \ProjectComponent::getProject()
inherited_from \Task::getProject()

Returns

\ProjectReference to current porject object

Returns the wrapper object for runtime configuration

getRuntimeConfigurableWrapper() : \RuntimeConfigurable
Inherited
inherited_from \Task::getRuntimeConfigurableWrapper()

Returns

\RuntimeConfigurableThe wrapper object used by this task

Returns the name of task, used only for log messages

getTaskName() : string
Inherited
inherited_from \Task::getTaskName()

Returns

stringName of this task

Returns the name of the task under which it was invoked, usually the XML tagname

getTaskType() : string
Inherited
inherited_from \Task::getTaskType()

Returns

stringThe type of this task (XML Tag)

Called by the parser to let the task initialize properly.

init() 
Inherited

Should throw a BuildException if something goes wrong with the build

This is abstract here, but may not be overloaded by subclasses.

inherited_from \Task::init()

Exceptions

\BuildException

Provides a project level log event to the task.

log(string $msg, integer $level) 
Inherited
see \global\BuildEvent
see \global\BuildListener
inherited_from \Task::log()

Parameters

$msg

string

The message to log

$level

integer

The priority of the message

Main entry point

main() 

This method may be called more than once, if the task is invoked more than once. For example, if target1 and target2 both depend on target3, then running phing target1 target2 will run all tasks in target3 twice.

Should throw a BuildException if someting goes wrong with the build

This is abstract here. Must be overloaded by real tasks.

Configure this task if it hasn't been done already.

maybeConfigure() 
Inherited
inherited_from \Task::maybeConfigure()

Perfrom this task

perform() 
Inherited
inherited_from \Task::perform()

Sets the class name / dotpath to use.

setClassname(string $class) 

Parameters

$class

string

Set the classpath to be used when searching for component being defined

setClasspath(\Path $classpath) 

Parameters

$classpath

\Path

A Path object containing the classpath.

Reference to a classpath to use when loading the files.

setClasspathRef(\Reference $r) 

Parameters

$r

Sets a textual description of the task

setDescription(string $desc) 
Inherited
inherited_from \Task::setDescription()

Parameters

$desc

string

The text describing the task

Sets the file of definitionas to use to use.

setFile(string $file) 

Parameters

$file

string

Sets the location within the buildfile this task occurs.

setLocation(\Location $location) 
Inherited

Called by the parser to set location information.

inherited_from \Task::setLocation()

Parameters

$location

\Location

The location object describing the position of this task within the buildfile.

Sets the name that will be used in XML buildfile.

setName(string $name) 

Parameters

$name

string

Sets the owning target this task belongs to.

setOwningTarget(\Target $target) 
Inherited
inherited_from \Task::setOwningTarget()

Parameters

$target

\Target

Reference to owning target

References the project to the current component.

setProject(\Project $project) 
Inherited
inherited_from \ProjectComponent::setProject()
inherited_from \Task::setProject()

Parameters

$project

\Project

The reference to the current project

Sets the wrapper object this task should use for runtime configurable elements.

setRuntimeConfigurableWrapper(\RuntimeConfigurable $wrapper) 
Inherited
inherited_from \Task::setRuntimeConfigurableWrapper()

Parameters

$wrapper

\RuntimeConfigurable

The wrapper object this task should use

Sets the name of this task for log messages

setTaskName(string $name) : string
Inherited
inherited_from \Task::setTaskName()

Parameters

$name

string

Returns

stringA string representing the name of this task for log

Sets the type of the task.

setTaskType(string $name) 
Inherited

Usually this is the name of the XML tag

inherited_from \Task::setTaskType()

Parameters

$name

string

The type of this task (XML Tag)

Returns a name

getRegisterSlot(string $slotName) 
Inherited
inherited_from \Task::getRegisterSlot()

Parameters

$slotName

string

 Properties

 

$description : string
Inherited
inherited_from \Task::$$description
 

$location : \Location
Inherited
inherited_from \Task::$$location
 

$project : \Project
Inherited
inherited_from \ProjectComponent::$$project
inherited_from \Task::$$project
 

$target : \Target
Inherited
inherited_from \Task::$$target
 

$taskName : string
Inherited
inherited_from \Task::$$taskName
 

$taskType : string
Inherited
inherited_from \Task::$$taskType
 

$wrapper : \RuntimeConfigurable
Inherited
inherited_from \Task::$$wrapper
 

$classname : string

This can be a dot-path -- relative to a location on PHP include_path. E.g. path.to.MyClass -> path/to/MyClass.php

 

$classpath : \Path
 

$classpathId 
 

$name 
 

$typeFile : string