Summary

Calculates checksums for a set of files. Loosely based on Ant's Checksum task.

Assembly

NAnt.Contrib.dll

Namespace

NAnt.Contrib.Tasks

Base Types

Task

graph BT Type-->Base0["Task"] Type["ChecksumTask"] class Type type-node

Syntax

[TaskName("checksum")]
public class ChecksumTask : Task

Examples

    <checksum algorithm="MD5" fileext="MD5">
    <fileset>
        <include name="${outputdir}\*.dll"/>
    </fileset>
</checksum>

Remarks

This task takes a set of input files in a fileset and calculates a checksum for each one of them. You can specify the algorithm to use when calculating the checksum value (MD5 or SHA1, for example). The calculated value is saved to a file with the same name as the input file and an added extension either based on the algorithm name (e.g. .MD5), or whatever is specified through the fileext attribute.

Attributes

Type	Description
TaskName

Properties

Name	Value	Summary
Algorithm	string	Name of Algorithm to use when calculating the checksum. Can be MD5 or SHA1.
FileExtension	string	The generated checksum file's name will be the original filename with "." and fileext added to it. Defaults to the algorithm name being used
FileSet	FileSet	Set of files to use as input

Methods

Name	Value	Summary
ExecuteTask()	void	This is where the work is done
Initialize()	void	Initializes task and ensures the supplied attributes are valid.