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I’ve been using Phantom, a .NET build system written for writing build scripts in C# and Boo by Jeremy Skinner, in various projects for quite a while and been very happy with it. I’ve even been so happy that I’ve never had any need to extend it. Until now.
While there is some documentation in the wiki about how create custom functions it did take a little while for me to figure out, mostly due to my inexperience with Boo. To create an extension what we have to do is to create a new class library project and reference Phantom.Core. We then create a class that implements the IRunnable<T> interface, like this:
using System;
using Phantom.Core.Language;
namespace Funky.PhantomExtensions
{
public class doStuff : IRunnable<doStuff>
{
public string message = "Hello there";
public doStuff Run()
{
Console.WriteLine(message);
return this;
}
public void SayBye()
{
Console.WriteLine("Bye bye");
}
}
}
After compiling we place the compiled assembly in the same folder as the Phantom assemblies and import it in our build script. We’re then good to go and can use it, like this:
import Funky.PhantomExtensions
target default:
doStuff() //will print "Hello there"
doStuff(message: "Hola senor") //will print "Hola senor"
with doStuff(): //will print "Bye bye" and "Howdy"
message = "Howdy"
.SayBye()
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