net.sf.antcontrib.net
Class PostTask

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.tools.ant.ProjectComponent
      org.apache.tools.ant.Task
          net.sf.antcontrib.net.PostTask

public class PostTask
extends org.apache.tools.ant.Task

This task does an http post. Name/value pairs for the post can be set in either or both of two ways, by nested Prop elements and/or by a file containing properties. Nested Prop elements are automatically configured by Ant. Properties from a file are configured by code borrowed from Property so all Ant property constructs (like ${somename}) are resolved prior to the post. This means that a file can be set up in advance of running the build and the appropriate property values will be filled in at run time.

Version:

$Revision: 1.11 $

Author:

Dale Anson, danson@germane-software.com

Nested Class Summary

class

PostTask.Cookie Represents a cookie.

Field Summary

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

PostTask()

Method Summary

void	addConfiguredProp(Prop p) Adds a name/value pair to post.
void	addText(java.lang.String text) Adds a feature to the Text attribute of the PostTask object
void	execute() Do the post.
void	setAppend(boolean b) Should the log file be appended to or overwritten? Default is true, append to the file.
void	setEncoding(java.lang.String encoding) Sets the encoding of the outgoing properties, default is UTF-8.
void	setFailonerror(boolean fail) Should the build fail if the post fails?
void	setFile(java.io.File f) Set the name of a file to read a set of properties from.
void	setLogfile(java.io.File f) Set the name of a file to save the response to.
void	setMaxwait(int wait) How long to wait on the remote server.
void	setProperty(java.lang.String name) Set the name of a property to save the response to.
void	setTo(java.net.URL name) Set the url to post to.
void	setVerbose(boolean b) If true, progress messages and returned data from the post will be displayed.
void	setWantresponse(boolean b) Default is true, get the response from the post.

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

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

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

Constructor Detail

PostTask

public PostTask()

Method Detail

setTo

public void setTo(java.net.URL name)

Set the url to post to. Required.

Parameters:

name - the url to post to.

setFile

public void setFile(java.io.File f)

Set the name of a file to read a set of properties from.

Parameters:

f - the file

setLogfile

public void setLogfile(java.io.File f)

Set the name of a file to save the response to. Optional. Ignored if "want response" is false.

Parameters:

f - the file

setAppend

public void setAppend(boolean b)

Should the log file be appended to or overwritten? Default is true, append to the file.

Parameters:

b - append or not

setVerbose

public void setVerbose(boolean b)

If true, progress messages and returned data from the post will be displayed. Default is true.

Parameters:

b - true = verbose

setWantresponse

public void setWantresponse(boolean b)

Default is true, get the response from the post. Can be set to false for "fire and forget" messages.

Parameters:

b - print/log server response

setProperty

public void setProperty(java.lang.String name)

Set the name of a property to save the response to. Optional. Ignored if "wantResponse" is false.

Parameters:

name - the name to use for the property

setEncoding

public void setEncoding(java.lang.String encoding)

Sets the encoding of the outgoing properties, default is UTF-8.

Parameters:

encoding - The new encoding value

setMaxwait

public void setMaxwait(int wait)

How long to wait on the remote server. As a post is generally a two part process (sending and receiving), maxwait is applied separately to each part, that is, if 180 is passed as the wait parameter, this task will spend at most 3 minutes to connect to the remote server and at most another 3 minutes waiting on a response after the post has been sent. This means that the wait period could total as much as 6 minutes (or 360 seconds).

The default wait period is 3 minutes (180 seconds).

Parameters:

wait - time to wait in seconds, set to 0 to wait forever.

setFailonerror

public void setFailonerror(boolean fail)

Should the build fail if the post fails?

Parameters:

fail - true = fail the build, default is false

addConfiguredProp

public void addConfiguredProp(Prop p)
                       throws org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException

Adds a name/value pair to post. Optional.

Parameters:

p - A property pair to send as part of the post.

Throws:

org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException - When name and/or value are missing.

addText

public void addText(java.lang.String text)

Adds a feature to the Text attribute of the PostTask object

Parameters:

text - The feature to be added to the Text attribute

execute

public void execute()
             throws org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException

Do the post.

Overrides:

execute in class org.apache.tools.ant.Task

Throws:

org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException - On any error.