Hi Chad,
no JIRA needed :-) I managed to work my way through the
Velocity-invocation ... I attached a patch which contains
the necessary changes in Cartridge.java and VelocityTemplateEngine.java.
It worked for me - please have a look at it and patch it in if you
agree - I don't have CVS write access.
Also I'm not shure where this feature should be documented, since it's
a property which applies to all cartridges (as far as I see it's the
first of these species).
Matthias
On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 17:29, Chad Brandon wrote:
> Good idea Matthias, like Wouter said. we have been discussing this, I do
> like the idea of defining a directory where it can decide to use those
> templates instead.
> of having to rejar the entire cartridge. If you can add an issue to jira:
> http://team.andromda.org:8080/jira so that we can keep track of this, that
> would be great. Put it under the CORE project.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Chad
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthias K�spert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 10:25 AM
> Subject: [Andromda-user] Overriding cartridge resources
>
>
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > First: thanks for this great tool!!
> >
> > Second: my question:
> >
> > Is there any other way to override cartridge-resources than copying
> > the whole cartridge code?
> >
> > In case I would like to change the content of only one or two templates,
> > pictures, etc., copying the hole cartridge seems a lot of overhead.
> >
> > I my eyes it seems very useful if there would be a way to provide custom
> > templates/resources to a cartridge, like:
> >
> > 1. the user defines a merge-property i.e.:
> > <merge>src/merge/cartridge-xxx</merge>
> > for the cartridge (in the users project.xml)
> >
> > 2. the cartridge checks this property at runtime and eventually loads
> > the user-defined resource from the given merge directory instead
> > of the default one in the cartridge-jar.
> >
> > This way a cartridge can be configured to produce project-specific
> > output.
> >
> > I looked at the sources and got the impression that it may not be
> > too difficult to implement - if somebody could spot the point
> > where the template-resource is loaded ... I didn't in time :-)
> >
> > Any comments?
> >
> >
> > Matthias
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Index: andromda/src/java/org/andromda/core/cartridge/Cartridge.java
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RCS file: /cvsroot/andromda/andromda/src/java/org/andromda/core/cartridge/Cartridge.java,v
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diff -r1.33 Cartridge.java
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> // put the merge-property into the context
> //
> Property mergeProperty = Namespaces.instance()
> .findNamespaceProperty(this.getName(),
> "merge",
> false);
> String mergeDir = mergeProperty != null ? mergeProperty.getValue() : "";
> templateContext.put("merge", mergeDir);
>
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< }
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> }
Index: templateengines/velocity/src/java/org/andromda/templateengines/velocity/VelocityTemplateEngine.java
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retrieving revision 1.10
diff -r1.10 VelocityTemplateEngine.java
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< "andromda.plugins,file");
---
> "file, andromda.plugins");
> // not: "andromda.plugins,file"); - so files will override jar'ed resources
100a102,105
> ep.setProperty("file.resource.loader.class",
> "org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.loader.FileResourceLoader");
>
>
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> // eventually add the merge-property to the engine
> //
> if (null != velocityContext.get("merge"))
> {
> velocityEngine.addProperty("file.resource.loader.path", (String) (velocityContext.get("merge")));
> }
>
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< }
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> }
