class generator not substituting formatVariableName correctly with custom supertemplate

From: Mike Kienenberger (mkienen..laska.net)
Date: Mon Sep 08 2003 - 20:31:02 EDT

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    I've taken and extracted superclass.vm from cayenne.jar as my "Custom"
    superclass.vm.
    I'm using an unmodified version of superclass.vm, yet class generator is not
    substituting correctly with the custom supertemplate. The
    $classGen.formatVariableName() won't parse! If I replace formatVariableName
    with formatJavaType, it parses as through formatJavaType. Weird!

    jdk 1.4.2 in Eclipse 2.1.1 with ant 1.5.3 on w2k. cayenne-1.0rc2, of
    course.

    -Mike

    My ant configuration:
    ====================
        <!-- classpath for cayenne class generator -->
        <path id="generate.classpath">
            <pathelement path ="E:\java\cayenne-1.0rc2\lib\cayenne.jar"/>
        </path>

        <!-- Rebuild classes dependent on database model -->
        <target name="generate">
                    <taskdef name="cgen"
    classname="org.objectstyle.cayenne.tools.CayenneGenerator">
                         <classpath refid="generate.classpath"/>
                    </taskdef>
                    <cgen map="E:/Programming/Ebpp-struts/WEB-INF/OnlineBilling.map.xml"
                          destDir="E:/Programming/Ebpp-struts/WEB-INF/src"
                          makepairs="true"
                          template
    ="E:/Programming/Ebpp-struts/WEB-INF/src/support/ModelerTemplates/subclass.vm"
                          
    supertemplate="E:/Programming/Ebpp-struts/WEB-INF/src/support/ModelerTemplates/superclass.vm"
                          superpkg="com.gvea.cayenne.ebpp.entity.generated"
                          usepkgpath="true"/>
        </target>
    ====================

    Output with no supertemplate ant parameter:
    ====================
        public void setAccountCheckDigit(Integer accountCheckDigit) {
            writeProperty("accountCheckDigit", accountCheckDigit);
        }
        public Integer getAccountCheckDigit() {
            return (Integer)readProperty("accountCheckDigit");
        }
    ====================

    Output from "Custom" template (which is just the cayenne.jar
    dotemplate/superclass.vm template extracted)
    ====================
        public void setAccountCheckDigit(Integer
    $classGen.formatVariableName(${attr.Name})) {
            writeProperty("accountCheckDigit",
    $classGen.formatVariableName(${attr.Name}));
        }
        public Integer getAccountCheckDigit() {
            return (Integer)readProperty("accountCheckDigit");
        }
    ====================

    Contents of "Custom" superclass.vm so you can see that I didn't mess with
    it:
    ====================
    ## Create attribute set/get methods
    #foreach( $attr in ${classGen.Entity.Attributes} )
    #set( $classGen.Prop = $attr.Name )## let controller know about current
    property
        public void
    set${classGen.cappedProp}($classGen.formatJavaType(${attr.Type})
    $classGen.formatVariableName(${attr.Name})) {
            writeProperty("${attr.Name}",
    $classGen.formatVariableName(${attr.Name}));
        }
        public $classGen.formatJavaType(${attr.Type})
    get${classGen.cappedProp}() {
            return
    ($classGen.formatJavaType(${attr.Type}))readProperty("${attr.Name}");
        }
        
        
    #end
    ====================

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