Don't punish people who want to modify the values of existing

properties in tasks of their own.


git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@270084 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

WHATSNEW

@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@ Changes that could break older environments:
   represents a directory.  Support for nested filesets is provided
   instead.
 
-* Some loopholes in the immutability rule have been closed. It is no longer
-  possible to overwrite a property using tasks like <checksum>, <condition>,
-  <exec>, <pathconvert>, or <tstamp>. In some exceptional cases it will 
-  generate a warning if you attempt to subvert property immutability.
+* It is no longer possible to overwrite a property using tasks like
+  <condition>, <exec>, <pathconvert>, or <tstamp>. In some exceptional
+  cases it will generate a warning if you attempt to overwrite an
+  existing property.
   
 * Taskwriters please note: Whenever tasks had any overloaded set* methods,
   Ant's introspection mechanism would select the last overloaded method

src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/Project.java

@@ -298,10 +298,8 @@ public class Project {
     /**
      * set a property. Any existing property of the same name 
      * is overwritten, unless it is a user property. 
-     * <i>the immutability policy is not implemented at this level</i> 
      * @param name name of property
      * @param value new value of the property
-     * @deprecated use, set setNewProperty
      */
     public void setProperty(String name, String value) {
         // command line properties take precedence
@@ -311,10 +309,8 @@ public class Project {
         }
 
         if (null != properties.get(name)) {
-            log("DEPRECATED - Project.setProperty('" + name + "','" + value + "') used " + 
-                "to overide an immutable property. Task writer should use Project.setNewProperty() " +
-                "instead and the build writer should not reuse the same property name for " + 
-                "different values.");
+            log("Overriding previous definition of property " + name, 
+                MSG_VERBOSE);
         }
 
         log("Setting project property: " + name + " -> " +
@@ -323,15 +319,13 @@ public class Project {
     }
 
     /**
-     * set a property. Any existing property of the same name 
-     * is overwritten, unless it is a user property. 
-     * <i>the immutability policy <b>is</b> enforced at this level</i> 
+     * set a property. An existing property of the same name 
+     * will not be overwritten.
      * @param name name of property
      * @param value new value of the property
      * @since 1.5
      */
     public void setNewProperty(String name, String value) {
-        // command line properties take precedence
         if (null != properties.get(name)) {
             log("Override ignored for property " + name, MSG_VERBOSE);
             return;

src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Available.java

@@ -156,6 +156,13 @@ public class Available extends Task implements Condition {
         }
 
         if (eval()) {
+            String lSep = System.getProperty("line.separator");
+            if (null != project.getProperty(property)) {
+                log("DEPRECATED - <available> used to overide an existing property. "
+                    + lSep
+                    + " Build writer should not reuse the same property name for "
+                    + lSep + "different values.");
+            }
             this.project.setProperty(property, value);
         }
     }