# Package org.apache.tools.ant.util

package org.apache.tools.ant.util

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Package
Description
org.apache.tools.ant
org.apache.tools.ant.util.depend
org.apache.tools.ant.util.facade
org.apache.tools.ant.util.java15
org.apache.tools.ant.util.optional
org.apache.tools.ant.util.regexp
Class
Description
Base64Converter
BASE 64 encoding of a String or an array of bytes.
ChainedMapper
A `ContainerMapper` that chains the results of the first nested `FileNameMapper`s into sourcefiles for the second, the second to the third, and so on, returning the resulting mapped filenames from the last nested `FileNameMapper`.
ClasspathUtils
Offers some helper methods on the Path structure in ant.
ClasspathUtils.Delegate
Delegate that helps out any specific ProjectComponent that needs dynamic classloading.
CollectionUtils
Deprecated.
CollectionUtils.EmptyEnumeration<E>
Deprecated.
CompositeMapper
A `ContainerMapper` that unites the results of its constituent `FileNameMapper`s into a single set of result filenames.
ConcatFileInputStream
Special `InputStream` that will concatenate the contents of an array of files.
ConcatResourceInputStream
Special `InputStream` that will concatenate the contents of Resources from a single ResourceCollection.
ContainerMapper
A `FileNameMapper` that contains other `FileNameMapper`s.
DateUtils
Helper methods to deal with date/time formatting with a specific defined format (ISO8601) or a correct pluralization of elapsed time in minutes and seconds.
DeweyDecimal
Utility class to contain version numbers in "Dewey Decimal" syntax.
DOMElementWriter
Writes a DOM tree to a given Writer.
DOMElementWriter.XmlNamespacePolicy
Whether namespaces should be ignored for elements and attributes.
DOMUtils
Some utility methods for common tasks when building DOM trees in memory.
FileNameMapper
Interface to be used by SourceFileScanner.
FileTokenizer
Class to read the complete input into a string.
FileUtils
This class also encapsulates methods which allow Files to be referred to using abstract path names which are translated to native system file paths at runtime as well as copying files or setting their last modification time.
FirstMatchMapper
A `ContainerMapper` that returns the results of its first constituent `FileNameMapper`s that matches.
FlatFileNameMapper
Implementation of FileNameMapper that always returns the source file name without any leading directory information.
GlobPatternMapper
Implementation of FileNameMapper that does simple wildcard pattern replacements.
IdentityMapper
Implementation of FileNameMapper that always returns the source file name.
IdentityStack<E>
Identity Stack.
JavaEnvUtils
A set of helper methods related to locating executables or checking conditions of a given Java installation.
JAXPUtils
Collection of helper methods that retrieve a ParserFactory or Parsers and Readers.
KeepAliveInputStream
Class that can be used to wrap `System.in` without getting anxious about any client closing the stream.
KeepAliveOutputStream
Class that can be used to wrap `System.out` and `System.err` without getting anxious about any client closing the stream.
LayoutPreservingProperties
A Properties collection which preserves comments and whitespace present in the input stream from which it was loaded.
LazyFileOutputStream
Class that delays opening the output file until the first bytes shall be written or the method `open` has been invoked explicitly.
LazyHashtable<K,V>
Deprecated.
LeadPipeInputStream
Special `PipedInputStream` that will not die when the writing `Thread` is no longer alive.
LineOrientedOutputStream
Invokes `processLine` whenever a full line has been written to this stream.
LineOrientedOutputStreamRedirector
Output stream which buffer and redirect a stream line by line.
LineTokenizer
class to tokenize the input as lines separated by \r (mac style), \r\n (dos/windows style) or \n (unix style)
LinkedHashtable<K,V>
Subclass of Hashtable that wraps a LinkedHashMap to provide predictable iteration order.
LoaderUtils
ClassLoader utility methods
MergingMapper
Implementation of FileNameMapper that always returns the same target file name.
Native2AsciiUtils
Contains helper methods for Ant's built-in implementation of native2ascii.
NullOutputStream
OutputStream that completely discards all data written to it.
OutputStreamFunneler
Manages a set of `OutputStream`s to write to a single underlying stream, which is closed only when the last "funnel" has been closed.
PackageNameMapper
Maps directory name matches into a dotted package name.
PermissionUtils
Contains helper methods for dealing with `PosixFilePermission` or the traditional Unix mode representation of permissions.
PermissionUtils.FileType
The supported types of files, maps to the `isFoo` methods in `BasicFileAttributes`.
ProcessUtil
Process Utilities
PropertyOutputStream
`OutputStream` that writes an Ant property.
ProxySetup
Code to do proxy setup.
ReaderInputStream
Adapts a `Reader` as an `InputStream`.
ReflectUtil
Utility class to handle reflection on java objects.
ReflectWrapper
Utility class to handle reflection on java objects.
RegexpPatternMapper
Implementation of FileNameMapper that does regular expression replacements.
ResourceUtils
This class provides utility methods to process Resources.
ResourceUtils.ReadOnlyTargetFileException
ResourceUtils.ResourceSelectorProvider
Retryable
Simple interface for executing a piece of code.
RetryHandler
A simple utility class to take a piece of code (that implements `Retryable` interface) and executes that with possibility to retry the execution in case of IOException.
ScriptFixBSFPath
A class to modify a classloader to support BSF language support.
ScriptManager
Script manager `enum`.
ScriptRunner
Deprecated.
Implementation moved to another location.
ScriptRunnerBase
This is a common abstract base case for script runners.
ScriptRunnerCreator
This is a helper class used by ScriptRunnerHelper to create a ScriptRunner based on a classloader and on a language.
ScriptRunnerHelper
A class to help in creating, setting and getting script runners.
SourceFileScanner
Utility class that collects the functionality of the various scanDir methods that have been scattered in several tasks before.
SplitClassLoader
Specialized classloader for tasks that need finer grained control over which classes are to be loaded via Ant's classloader and which should not even if they are available.
StreamUtils
StringTokenizer
Class to tokenize the input as areas separated by white space, or by a specified list of delim characters.
StringUtils
A set of helper methods related to string manipulation.
SymbolicLinkUtils
Deprecated.
Starting Ant 1.10.2, this class is now deprecated in favour of the Java `Files` APIs introduced in Java 7, for dealing with symbolic links
TaskLogger
A facade that makes logging nicer to use.
TeeOutputStream
A simple T-piece to replicate an output stream into two separate streams
TimeoutObserver
Interface for classes that want to be notified by Watchdog.
Tokenizer
input stream tokenizers implement this interface
UnicodeUtil
Contains one helper method to create a backslash u escape
UnPackageNameMapper
Maps dotted package name matches to a directory name.
UUEncoder
UUEncoding of an input stream placed into an OutputStream.
VectorSet<E>
Subclass of Vector that won't store duplicate entries and shows HashSet's constant time performance characteristics for the contains method.
Watchdog
Generalization of `ExecuteWatchdog`
WeakishReference
Deprecated.
deprecated 1.7; will be removed in Ant1.8 Just use `WeakReference` directly.
WeakishReference.HardReference
Deprecated.
since 1.7.
WorkerAnt
A worker ant executes a single task in a background thread.
XmlConstants
XML Parser constants, all kept in one place for ease of reuse
XMLFragment
Use this class as a nested element if you want to get a literal DOM fragment of something nested into your task/type.