From 89dda67cd73afdf954ed8d4e7c2ec9f409d125aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Jason Benson <mbenson@apache.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:26:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] document GreedyInputHandler

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@358635 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 WHATSNEW                      | 8 +++++---
 docs/manual/inputhandler.html | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index e82519e8c..c409d7295 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ Other changes:
   System.exit() call or a JVM crash.
 
 * project name is now used for *all* targets so one can write consistent import
-  build file. bugzilla report 28444.
+  build files. Bugzilla report 28444.
 
 * New condition <typefound> that can be used to probe for the declaration 
   and implementation of a task, type, preset, macro, scriptdef, whatever. 
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ Other changes:
 
 * New condition <isfailure> that tests the return-code of an executable. This
   contains platform-specific logic and is better than comparing the result with
-  "0". 
+  "0".
 
 * Added initial support for Resource Collections, including the
   resourcecount task.
@@ -329,7 +329,9 @@ Other changes:
 
 * New task loadresource that accompanies loadfile for non file resources.
 
-* <echo> now supports an encoding when saving to a file
+* <echo> now supports an encoding when saving to a file.
+
+* new GreedyInputHandler added.
 
 Changes from Ant 1.6.4 to Ant 1.6.5
 ===================================
diff --git a/docs/manual/inputhandler.html b/docs/manual/inputhandler.html
index ec32eead7..81ec652fe 100644
--- a/docs/manual/inputhandler.html
+++ b/docs/manual/inputhandler.html
@@ -72,6 +72,12 @@ be a Java system property, not an Ant property.  I.e. you cannot
 define it as a simple parameter to <code>ant</code>, but you can
 define it inside the <code>ANT_OPTS</code> environment variable.</p>
 
+<h3>GreedyInputHandler</h3>
+
+<p>Like the default implementation, this InputHandler reads from standard
+input. However, it consumes <i>all</i> available input. This behavior is
+useful for sending Ant input via an OS pipe. <b>Since Ant 1.7</b>.</p>
+
 <h2>InputRequest</h2>
 
 <p>Instances of <code>org.apache.tools.ant.input.InputRequest</code>