org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs
Class Echo

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Cloneable

public class Echo
extends Task

Writes a message to the Ant logging facilities.

Since:

Ant 1.1

Nested Class Summary

static class

Echo.EchoLevel The enumerated values for the level attribute.

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

target, taskName, taskType, wrapper

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

description, location, 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) If true, append to existing file.
void	setEncoding(java.lang.String encoding) Declare the encoding to use when outputting to a file; Use "" for the platform's default encoding.
void	setFile(java.io.File file) File to write to.
void	setLevel(Echo.EchoLevel echoLevel) Set the logging level.
void	setMessage(java.lang.String msg) Message to write.
void	setOutput(Resource output) Resource to write to.

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

bindToOwner, getOwningTarget, getRuntimeConfigurableWrapper, getTaskName, getTaskType, getWrapper, handleErrorFlush, handleErrorOutput, handleFlush, handleInput, handleOutput, init, isInvalid, log, log, log, log, maybeConfigure, perform, reconfigure, setOwningTarget, setRuntimeConfigurableWrapper, setTaskName, setTaskType

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

clone, getDescription, getLocation, getProject, setDescription, setLocation, setProject

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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 something goes wrong with the build

setMessage

public void setMessage(java.lang.String msg)

Message to write.

Parameters:

msg - Sets the value for the message variable.

setFile

public void setFile(java.io.File file)

File to write to.

Parameters:

file - the file to write to, if not set, echo to standard output

setOutput

public void setOutput(Resource output)

Resource to write to.

Parameters:

output - the Resource to write to.

Since:

Ant 1.8

setAppend

public void setAppend(boolean append)

If true, append to existing file.

Parameters:

append - if true, append to existing file, default is false.

addText

public void addText(java.lang.String msg)

Set a multiline message.

Parameters:

msg - the CDATA text to append to the output text

setLevel

public void setLevel(Echo.EchoLevel echoLevel)

Set the logging level. Level should be 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.

Parameters:

echoLevel - the logging level

setEncoding

public void setEncoding(java.lang.String encoding)

Declare the encoding to use when outputting to a file; Use "" for the platform's default encoding.

Parameters:

encoding - the character encoding to use.

Since:

1.7