From 83dcf695df0e3de7c27b43e07342371918713707 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Donald <donaldp@apache.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 15:41:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added TaskContext.createSubContext( String name ) so that it
 is no longer necessary at all to know the underlying implementation - even
 when creating container tasks.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@269643 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 .../myrmidon/api/DefaultTaskContext.java      | 20 +++++++++++++++++++
 .../org/apache/myrmidon/api/TaskContext.java  |  4 ++--
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/proposal/myrmidon/src/java/org/apache/myrmidon/api/DefaultTaskContext.java b/proposal/myrmidon/src/java/org/apache/myrmidon/api/DefaultTaskContext.java
index c2c4d7b4e..bfd0efe3b 100644
--- a/proposal/myrmidon/src/java/org/apache/myrmidon/api/DefaultTaskContext.java
+++ b/proposal/myrmidon/src/java/org/apache/myrmidon/api/DefaultTaskContext.java
@@ -173,6 +173,26 @@ public class DefaultTaskContext
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Create a Child Context.
+     * This allows separate hierarchly contexts to be easily constructed.
+     *
+     * @param name the name of sub-context
+     * @return the created TaskContext
+     * @exception TaskException if an error occurs
+     */
+    public TaskContext createSubContext( final String name )
+        throws TaskException
+    {
+        final DefaultTaskContext context = new DefaultTaskContext( this );
+
+        context.setProperty( TaskContext.NAME, getName() + "." + name );
+        context.setProperty( TaskContext.BASE_DIRECTORY, getBaseDirectory() );
+        context.setProperty( TaskContext.JAVA_VERSION, getJavaVersion() );
+
+        return context;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Make sure property is valid if it is one of the "magic" properties.
      *
diff --git a/proposal/myrmidon/src/java/org/apache/myrmidon/api/TaskContext.java b/proposal/myrmidon/src/java/org/apache/myrmidon/api/TaskContext.java
index 988086138..8ed197e83 100644
--- a/proposal/myrmidon/src/java/org/apache/myrmidon/api/TaskContext.java
+++ b/proposal/myrmidon/src/java/org/apache/myrmidon/api/TaskContext.java
@@ -103,8 +103,8 @@ public interface TaskContext
      * @return the created TaskContext
      * @exception TaskException if an error occurs
      */
-    //TaskContext createSubContext( String name )
-    //throws TaskException;
+    TaskContext createSubContext( String name )
+        throws TaskException;
 
     /**
      * Safe wrapper class for Scope enums.