With the TaskdefTask you can import a user task into your buildfile.
Table B.63: Attributes
| Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
|---|---|---|---|---|
classname
|
String
| The path to the class that defines the TaskClass. | n/a | Yes, unless the file attribute has been specified.
|
name
|
String
| The name the task is available as after importing. If you specify "validate", for example,
you can access the task imported here with <validate>.
| n/a | Yes, unless the file attribute has been
specified.
|
file
|
String
| Name of the file to load definitions from. | n/a | No |
classpath
|
String
| The classpath to use when including classes. This is added to PHP's include_path. | n/a | No |
classpathref
|
String
| Reference to classpath to use when including classes. This is added to PHP's include_path. | n/a | No |
<!-- Includes the Task named "ValidateHTMLTask" and makes it available by
<validatehtml> -->
<taskdef classname="user.tasks.ValidateHTMLTask" name="validatehtml" />
<!-- Includes the Task "RebootTask" from "user/sometasks" somewhere inside
the $PHP_CLASSPATH -->
<taskdef classname="user.sometasks.RebootTask" name="reboot" />
<!-- Includes all tasks from the property file. Each line in the property
file defines a task in the format: name=path.to.Task -->
<taskdef file="/path/to/mytasks.properties" />
NB: Taskdef now supports the PEAR-style naming convention to define and load tasks:
<taskdef name="sampletask" classname="Dir_Subdir_SampleTask"/>
will load class Dir_Subdir_SampleTask from file
Dir/Subdir/SampleTask.php.