Bug 56689

Summary:	id/refid not available in ResourceCollection
Product:	Ant	Reporter:	Jochen Wiedmann <jochen>
Component:	Core tasks	Assignee:	Ant Notifications List <notifications>
Status:	NEEDINFO ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P2
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All

Description Jochen Wiedmann 2014-07-02 07:23:46 UTC

AFAIK, it is not possible to create or use a Reference to a ResourceCollection, because the id/refid attributes aren't present in the respective implementation classes.

This is a serious constraint, because (for example) there is no possibility to pass resource collections to a macro.

Comment 1 Stefan Bodewig 2014-07-04 04:14:34 UTC

Not sure I follow you here.

It is true the ResourceCollection interface doesn't support refif/id directly but (almost?) all concrete implementations of the interface do.  What exactly are your trying to do that isn't possible?

I'm not completely sure we have documented it, but I think we do.  The <resources> type is the generic collection if you need a placeholder for any type of resource collection.  It's getRef() method casts the ref to ResourceCollection and not to any concrete subclass.

http://ant.apache.org/manual/Types/resources.html#resources

Comment 2 Jan Mat 2015-06-10 19:50:31 UTC

nearly 1yr after Stefans feedback.
Is the problem solved?