workspacePreferenceSet

This task sets Eclipse workspace preferences.

Parameters

Attribute	Description	Required
PreferenceType	The type of preference to be set	Yes. May be compiler or classpathVariable or classpath or builder
PreferenceName	The preference name to be set	Yes
PreferenceValue	The value to be set	Yes
Overwrite	Whether or not to overwrite the preference value it it already exists	No, default is true
FailOnError	Whether or not the Ant build should fail if there was an error	No, default is true

Examples

• Set various workspace preferences:

  <workspacePreferenceSet 
      PreferenceType="compiler" 
      Preferencename="problem.unusedImport" 
      PreferenceValue="ignore" />
  <workspacePreferenceSet 
      PreferenceType="compiler" 
      Preferencename="problem.staticAccessReceiver" 
      PreferenceValue="ignore" />
  <workspacePreferenceSet 
      PreferenceType="classpathVariable" 
      Preferencename="WAS_PLUGINDIR" 
      PreferenceValue="F:/Wte51/AppServer" />
  <workspacePreferenceSet 
      PreferenceType="classpath" 
      Preferencename="exclusionPatterns" 
      PreferenceValue="enabled" />
  <workspacePreferenceSet 
      PreferenceType="builder" 
      Preferencename="invalidClasspath" 
      PreferenceValue="abort" />

 

Parent topic

Working with Ant

 

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