[xdoclet-user] Transfering data to the velocity script

[Stefan Undorf]

Hello,

I'm just making my first steps with XDoclet(2). First thanks for sharing
this tool.

I tried to to output the creation date in my generated files. The first
attempt was to add velocity-tools-1.2.jar to my classpath and generate -
without any results. The $date tag in the 2nd line of the script is simply
ignored. This is my velocity script:

*** start velocity script ***
#set( $class = $metadata )
//Created on $date
//Created on $date.format('medium',$myObjectName)


public class ${class.getName()} extends ${class.getName()}Standard {}
*** end velocity script ***

Then I thought about providing a date object from my java class to the
script which could be used in line 3 of the velocity script. This is my java
class:

*** start java class ***
import java.util.Date;

import org.generama.QDoxCapableMetadataProvider;
import org.generama.VelocityTemplateEngine;
import org.generama.WriterMapper;
import org.generama.defaults.JavaGeneratingPlugin;

public class EntityClassImplPlugin extends JavaGeneratingPlugin {

        public EntityClassImplPlugin(VelocityTemplateEngine 
velocityTemplateEngine,
                        QDoxCapableMetadataProvider metadataProvider, 
WriterMapper writerMapper)
                        throws ClassNotFoundException {

                super(velocityTemplateEngine, metadataProvider, writerMapper);
                //metadataProvider.getMetadata().add("myDate", new Date());
                setMultioutput(true);
        }
}
*** end java class ***

In line 16 I tried to provide my data object. Of course this is not
possible. Is there an alternative?

Thanks in advance,
Stefan