org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs
Class Echo

java.lang.Object
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  +--org.apache.tools.ant.ProjectComponent
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        +--org.apache.tools.ant.Task
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              +--org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Echo

public class Echo

extends Task

Echo

Author:

costin@dnt.ro

Inner Class Summary

static class

Echo.EchoLevel

Field Summary

protected boolean	append
protected java.io.File	file
protected int	logLevel
protected java.lang.String	message

Fields inherited from class org.apache.tools.ant.Task

description, location, target, taskName, taskType, wrapper

Fields inherited from class org.apache.tools.ant.ProjectComponent

project

Constructor Summary

Echo()

Method Summary

void	addText(java.lang.String msg) Set a multiline message.
void	execute() Does the work.
void	setAppend(boolean append) Shall we append to an existing file?
void	setFile(java.io.File file) Sets the file attribute.
void	setLevel(Echo.EchoLevel echoLevel) Set the logging level to one of error warning info verbose debug
void	setMessage(java.lang.String msg) Sets the message variable.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.tools.ant.Task

getDescription, getLocation, getOwningTarget, getRuntimeConfigurableWrapper, getTaskName, handleErrorOutput, handleOutput, init, log, log, maybeConfigure, perform, setDescription, setLocation, setOwningTarget, setRuntimeConfigurableWrapper, setTaskName

Methods inherited from class org.apache.tools.ant.ProjectComponent

getProject, setProject

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

message

protected java.lang.String message

file

protected java.io.File file

append

protected boolean append

logLevel

protected int logLevel

Constructor Detail

Echo

public Echo()

Method Detail

execute

public void execute()
             throws BuildException

Does the work.

Overrides:

execute in class Task

Throws:

BuildException - if someting goes wrong with the build

setMessage

public void setMessage(java.lang.String msg)

Sets the message variable.

Parameters:

msg - Sets the value for the message variable.

setFile

public void setFile(java.io.File file)

Sets the file attribute.

setAppend

public void setAppend(boolean append)

Shall we append to an existing file?

addText

public void addText(java.lang.String msg)

Set a multiline message.

setLevel

public void setLevel(Echo.EchoLevel echoLevel)

Set the logging level to one of

• error
• warning
• info
• verbose
• debug

The default is "warning" to ensure that messages are displayed by default when using the -quiet command line option.