[GROOVY-192] AntBuilder should be able to access properties defined outside of its closures

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.0-beta-4
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Calvin Yu
• Created: 07/Feb/04 17:09
• Updated: 25/Feb/04 15:46
• Resolved: 25/Feb/04 15:46

Description

Here's an example:

path = [ "C:/dev", "C:/java" ]

ant = new AntBuilder();
ant.echo(path);

ant.javac(srcdir:"src",
destdir:"classes") {
classpath {
for (p in path)

{ pathelement(location:p) }

}
}

What I'm trying to do is create a generic build script where I'm passing variables in from Java code, but executing the code gives me a error saying that the method 'classpath' does not exist (which isn't true, the actual error is that the property 'path' doesn't exist).

As a workaround, I subclassed AntBuilder and override getProperty() to return values from the script object. This solution doesn't seem to work in the current CVS version.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: GROOVY-214 nested closures seem to have a problem with variable passing