hbmtemplate and toggle overwriting

vguna · **Joined:** Fri Sep 15, 2006 2:09 am **Posts:** 11

Hi.

I'm wondering, if there's an easy way to toggle whether hbmtemplate should overwrite existing files or not. I took a look at the POJO and Seam exporterclasses but I didn't find an option. Seems that the TemplateProducer always overwrites existing files. Is there something planned for the future?

After some digging I found something in the DAONewExporter:

Code:

    /**
     * Override to avoid overwriting the existing files
     * In the final version this should be moved to GenericExporter 
     */
    protected void exportPOJO(Map additionalContext, POJOClass element)
    {
        String filename = resolveFilename(element);
        File file = new File(getOutputDirectory(), filename);
        if (file.exists() && !isOverwrite()) {
            log.warn("Skipping the generation of file " + file + " because target already exists");
        }
        else {
            super.exportPOJO(additionalContext, element);
        }
    }

Sounds that something is planned. For now I would have to implement my own GenericExporter which allows overwrite toggling.

max · **Posted:** Sat May 19, 2007 1:11 pm

on the todo list (possibly to be handled by the ArtifactCollector)

Meaculpa · **Joined:** Tue Apr 25, 2006 10:02 am **Posts:** 2

Will there be a solution soon? I am having the same problem and copying my files to a tmp-dir an copying to the original place with ant is not what i expected...

Greetings,
Meaculpa

max · **Posted:** Mon Nov 12, 2007 10:50 am

Not soon since we are finalizing for GA currently.

It will be later - but sooner if someone contributes a workable patch.