Customize File extension

[fab1an]

Hi, is there a way to customize the extension of the generated file?

[eerohele]

Sorry for the late reply.

Does using the output property not work for you?

If not, you could always use Gradle to rename the output file(s) after the transformation.

[fab1an]

I'm generating sourcecode, so I'm using <xml:text> but want the ending to be *.kt or *.java.

I've already solved it by writing a custom incremental task.

I could try the rename task though, you can close this if you want, thanks.

[virtual-machinist]

Having seen the following block in SaxonXsltTask.groovy

    protected String getDefaultOutputExtension() {
        String method = this.xslt.output.@method
        return method ? method : 'xml'
    }

Do I understand correctly that possible extensions may only be xml|html|xhtml|text|json|adaptive as per xsl:output spec? If so, I'd rather add a separate property for defaultOutputExtension than make a task that copies/renames the transformed files. Right now I had to make something like

task transformXmls(type: ExtendedSaxonXsltTask) {
  outputExtension = 'foo'
...
}

class ExtendedSaxonXsltTask extends com.github.eerohele.SaxonXsltTask {

  String outputExtension;

  @Override
  protected String getDefaultOutputExtension() {
    return outputExtension ?: super.getDefaultOutputExtension()
  }

}

in my build.gradle, but it'd be great if this were a part of the plugin.

[eerohele]

Do I understand correctly that possible extensions may only be xml|html|xhtml|text|json|adaptive as per xsl:output spec?

Yes.

it'd be great if this were a part of the plugin.

Yes, I can see why you'd want that. I'll look into it.

[eerohele]

@virtual-machinist: v0.8.0 adds support for outputFileExtension 'foo'.

Can you give it a go and report back whether it works OK for you?

[virtual-machinist]

Wow, that was fast! :) Works perfectly, thanks!

[eerohele]

Glad to hear it, thanks for getting back to me!