/* * Copyright 2003-2004 The Apache Software Foundation * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. * */ package org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs; import org.apache.tools.ant.Task; import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException; import org.apache.tools.ant.Project; /** * A task to provide "nice-ness" to the current thread, and/or to * query the current value. * Examples: *
 <nice currentPriority="current.value" >

* Set currentPriority to the current priority *

 <nice newPriority="10" >

* Raise the priority of the build process (But not forked programs) *

 <nice currentPriority="old" newPriority="3" >

* Lower the priority of the build process (But not forked programs), and save * the old value to the property old. * * @ant.task name="nice" category="control" */ public class Nice extends Task { /** * the new priority */ private Integer newPriority; /** * the current priority */ private String currentPriority; /** * Execute the task * @exception BuildException if something goes wrong with the build */ public void execute() throws BuildException { Thread self = Thread.currentThread(); int priority = self.getPriority(); if (currentPriority != null) { String current = Integer.toString(priority); getProject().setNewProperty(currentPriority, current); } //if there is a new priority, and it is different, change it if (newPriority != null && priority != newPriority.intValue()) { try { self.setPriority(newPriority.intValue()); } catch (SecurityException e) { //catch permissions denial and keep going log("Unable to set new priority -a security manager is in the way", Project.MSG_WARN); } catch (IllegalArgumentException iae) { throw new BuildException("Priority out of range", iae); } } } /** * The name of a property to set to the value of the current * thread priority. Optional * @param currentPriority the property name. */ public void setCurrentPriority(String currentPriority) { this.currentPriority = currentPriority; } /** * the new priority, in the range 1-10. * @param newPriority the new priority value. */ public void setNewPriority(int newPriority) { if (newPriority < Thread.MIN_PRIORITY || newPriority > Thread.MAX_PRIORITY) { throw new BuildException("The thread priority is out of the range 1-10"); } this.newPriority = new Integer(newPriority); } }