placeholders for xdoclet ?

rimmele7 · **Joined:** Sun Dec 28, 2003 4:35 pm **Posts:** 13

Hello,

I like the way xdoclet and schemaexport generates everything for me. But I have one bad feeling too, since a lot of of information is "hardcoded" in my source files.

Example:
If I would like to write a program that runs on MySql and Oracle. A certain field on the database should have type "longtext" on mysql and "clob" on oracle. How can I make this hint more generic?

Code:

* @hibernate.column 
*    name="xml" 
*    sql-type="longtext"

Is there a way to put placeholders into the xdoclet hints that are replaced during the ant build, something like this?

Code:

* @hibernate.column 
*    name="xml" 
*    sql-type="${longTextString.sqlType}"

I tried it, by simply making available the property longTextString.sqlType to the ant task, but it did not work.

Salut,

Thomas

emmanuel · **Posted:** Fri Feb 06, 2004 9:38 am

You can use the @myVar@ syntax and the filter capability of Ant

michael · **Posted:** Fri Feb 06, 2004 9:38 am

You can use ants filtertasks

emmanuel · **Posted:** Fri Feb 06, 2004 9:40 am

gloeglm wrote:

You can use ants filtertasks

Beats you :)

michael · **Posted:** Fri Feb 06, 2004 9:41 am

Arrh :)

rimmele7 · **Joined:** Sun Dec 28, 2003 4:35 pm **Posts:** 13

Thanks a lot, I should have posted it in the beginners section.

Salut, Thomas

rimmele7 · **Joined:** Sun Dec 28, 2003 4:35 pm **Posts:** 13

It worked, perhaps somone can use this:

in the source:

Code:

* @hibernate.column
*    name="xml"
*    sql-type="@longTextString.sqlType@"

In the build file:

Code:

<target name="filter" depends="init">
  <filter filtersfile="hibernate_filter.properties"/>
  <copy todir="${my.src.dir}" filtering="true">
    <fileset dir="${my.originalSrc.dir}">
      <include name="**/*"/>
    </fileset>
  </copy>
</target>

hibernate_filter.properties:

Code:

longTextString.sqlType=longtext

Salut, Thomas