Hello,

I'm using hibernate tools 3.1.0alpha5 inside eclipse 3.1 and it works great!

Now, I would like to do some changes to pojoclass.vm and would like to put an object into the velocity context, which would help me during code generation.

As far as I can tell from the code, there is no simple way to achieve this. POJOExporter has a protected method setupContext, which I could override and use, but I wouldn't be able to make the Hbm2JavaGeneratorTask or the ArtifactGeneratorWizard of the eclipse plugin use my own POJOExporter:

- HibernateToolTask instantiates a Hbm2JavaGeneratorTask, which in turn instantiates a POJOExporter

- ArtifactGenerationWizard directly instantiates a POJOExporter

Am I missing something?

Many thanks for this great tool!

Kambiz

its something we want to add as a possibilty....

In the meantime, I've patched Hbm2JavaGeneratorTask to add a new configuration option exporter.

If it is set, the custom exporter is instantiated using the defaut constructor.

I will try to figure out how I could modify hibernate console, add tests etc. and submit a patch to the JIRA.

Thanks

Kambiz

one thing we would like is something like:

<generate class="<some class that is a Exporter>" template="templatename that will be used" filename="velocitysnippet-to-generate-the-filename"/>

Where do you want this to be configured?

first off via ant

later on we'll have to extend the Exporter interface/class to be more configurable and then we can clean up the ui for the artifact generator and let it be more dynamic.

Sorry, that I have to ask again.

This is how my current solution looks like:



Do you mean:



As I understand, you would like to have the ability to generate multiple artifacts, which could have different exporters, different templates (instead of hard-coded "pojo/javaclass.vm" and different names for the generated files.

Or if not, could you please sketch how the ant config should look like.

And could you please give an example of velocitysnippet-to-generate-the-filename?

Thanks

Kambiz

yes your example is correct.

the filename is not vital for the first attempt - could just assume the exporter handles it.

but the idea was simply to allow filename="${classname}Something.java" which would generate a file per class or "Something.xxx" which would only generate one file namely "Soemthing.xxx"

I've patched the code to allow for a custom PojoExporter and specifying your own template name.

Syntax of ant task would be like this:



I've also added some tests to anttest-build.xml and HibernateToolTest.

I there already a JIRA issue where I can attach the patch or do I have to open a new one?

Thanks

Kambiz

should be on a new one ....