Re: Project Template Questions

From: David LeBer (dleber_wode..odeferous.com)
Date: Tue Apr 07 2009 - 11:25:42 EDT

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    On 7-Apr-09, at 11:16 AM, David Avendasora wrote:

    >
    > On Apr 7, 2009, at 10:57 AM, Mike Schrag wrote:
    >
    >>> 1) I want to include my EOGenerator templates in the project but
    >>> since they contain velocity tags, the templating engine is trying
    >>> to process them which, of course, horribly breaks them. Is there
    >>> any way to tell the templating engine to ignore certain files in
    >>> the template folder?
    >> Try naming the file "yourfile.eogen__binary" and see if that fixes
    >> it.
    >
    > I renamed them to "_Entity__binary" and "Entity_binary" and it works
    > perfectly (I leave off the .java extension because I don't want the
    > superclass template hidden along with the other _Entity.java files
    > by the filter).
    >
    > Thanks Mike!
    >
    > I'll update the Wiki tutorial with a warning along the lines of "If
    > there are any files (EOGenerator Templates for example) that you
    > don't want processed by the Project Templating Engine, they you must
    > add "__binary" to the end of their file names. The templating engine
    > will strip the "__binary" off at run-time, but otherwise leave the
    > files untouched."
    >
    >>
    >>> 2) Is there a way to automatically add the EOModels chosen in the
    >>> New Project Wizard to the .eogen file? I don't control this part
    >>> of the wizard, so I don't know what velocity tag(s) to use in
    >>> the .eogen file.
    >> No, but I think this part of the wizard is kind of weird and
    >> doesn't make sense anyway. Who ever starts a new project but
    >> already has an eomodel file?
    >
    >
    > Setting up tutorials and such is about all I can think of.

    Sometimes (albeit rarely) I will create multiple D2W apps using the
    same model. Adding the model to the project after it is created is not
    a big deal though, so if this part of the wizard were to go away I'd
    not miss it.

    ;david

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