/* * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. * */ package org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs; /** * * Adds a data type definition to the current project. * Two attributes are * needed, the name that identifies this data type uniquely, and the full * name of the class (including the packages) that implements this * type. * <p>You can also define a group of data types at once using the file or * resource attributes. These attributes point to files in the format of * Java property files. Each line defines a single data type in the * format:</p> * <pre> * typename=fully.qualified.java.classname * </pre> * <p>Typedef should be used to add your own types to the system. Data * types are things likepaths or filesets that can be defined at * the project level and referenced via their ID attribute.</p> * <p>Custom data types usually need custom tasks to put them to good use.</p> * * @since Ant 1.4 * @ant.task category="internal" */ public class Typedef extends Definer { }