override pojo/Pojo.ftl

nkiesel · **Joined:** Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:51 pm **Posts:** 3

Hi,

I want to use a different pojo/Pojo.ftl. Currently I do this by replacing the version in hibernate-tools.jar with my own version, but that is of course not nice. I read about <hbmtemplate>, but can't make it work so that I can just specify that one file. I tried various combinations of template and templatepath attributes, but it either does not use my ftl at all or it fails because it expects all ftl files to be in that location.

Any idea/hints?

Best,
Norbert

max · **Posted:** Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:09 am

use templatepath="yourrootdir"

copy pojo/Pojo.ftl to yourrootdir/pojo/Pojo.ftl

Then it will pick up this Pojo.ftl first and then any other templates that is not to be found in yourrootdir/* will be taken from the jar.

nkiesel · **Joined:** Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:51 pm **Posts:** 3

Thanks for the quick answer. I tried this with etc/hbm/pojo/Pojo.ftl, but get the following error:

Quote:

[hibernatetool] INFO: Hibernate Tools 3.2.0.beta8
[hibernatetool] An exception occurred while running exporter #2:generic exporter
[hibernatetool] To get the full stack trace run ant with -verbose
[hibernatetool] org.hibernate.tool.hbm2x.ExporterException: File pattern not set on class org.hibernate.tool.hbm2x.GenericExporter

I also ran it through strace and ant does not even try to access Pojo.ftl before this error shows up.

The ant target I'm using is:

Code:

<target name="hbm2java" description="generate Java code from hbm files">
      <hibernatetool destdir="javasrc">
         <classpath path="javasrc" />
            <hbmtemplate templatepath="etc/hbm" />
         <configuration configurationfile="javasrc/hibernate.cfg.xml" />
         <hbm2java jdk5="true" />
      </hibernatetool>
   </target>

</nk>

max · **Posted:** Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:06 pm

I think what you really want is:

Code:

<target name="hbm2java" description="generate Java code from hbm files"> 
      <hibernatetool destdir="javasrc"> 
         <classpath path="javasrc" /> 
         <configuration configurationfile="javasrc/hibernate.cfg.xml" /> 
         <hbm2java templatepath="etc/hbm" jdk5="true" /> 
      </hibernatetool> 
   </target>

Don't know what that extra hbmtemplate were doing there? :)

p.s. also not sure your classpath should be path="javasrc" ...you dont have classes in there do you ?

nkiesel · **Joined:** Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:51 pm **Posts:** 3

Thanks a lot, works like a charm!

Regarding the classpath: I store the hbm.xml files inside the same directories where the other java files live (and where I also generate the pojos). Is there a better way than classpath to specify where hibernate should look for hbm files?

BTW: I got that <hbmtemplate> from http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/tools/reference/en/html_single/#d0e890

max · **Posted:** Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:07 am

nkiesel wrote:

Regarding the classpath: I store the hbm.xml files inside the same directories where the other java files live (and where I also generate the pojos). Is there a better way than classpath to specify where hibernate should look for hbm files?

Sure, it needs a classpath but I would just assume that your hbm.xml files would be copied over into the normal classpath....using the src location is fine if that is the only place they are at this point of the build process.

Quote:

BTW: I got that <hbmtemplate> from http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/tools/reference/en/html_single/#d0e890

Yes, and that one has all the required attributes listed, yours hasn't ;)

Plus it is not the generic hbmtemplate you wanted but just customize <hbm2java>.