> From: Sasha Case > To: Dave Kuhlman <dkuhl...@rexx.com> > Sent: Thu, July 29, 2010 8:53:28 PM > > Dave, > > Thanks for your reply. After reading the fragments of the XML spec that > you posted and also looking closer at how generateDS would probably handle > the case, I have opted to instead modify the schema. > > I think that it becomes too complicated to try to handle the special cases > that you have raised, such as multiple maxOccurs occurences nested within > each other, and then trying to inherit all of these down to the actual > repeated element. Too confusing! > > So I have just modified our schema to be simpler, and now everything works > as I expect! This is a very nice piece of software that you have put > together.
Sasha - Great. > > I do have one more question if you have any time to answer.. > > With the property support (-m), a whole lot of properties are created with > names like nameProp, addressProp, etc. This makes using the generated > classes much nicer, but I think it would be neater to call the property > just eg. 'name' and 'address'. This would clash with the existing names > used to store the actual data, however these would then be better called > _name and _address as is conventional for pseudo-private variables. I'm > sure that you have considered this before - perhaps you have not done it > this way for legacy/backwards compatibility reasons from before Python > supported properties...? Do you think it would be trivial for me to do a > search/replace in generateDS.py to set all 'internal' attributes to lead > with an underscore, and rename all the generated properties to remove the > 'Prop' suffix? You are right about how properties should be. The property name should be the same as the element or attribute name. And, that change should be very easy to make, I believe. It's all in function generateGettersAndSetters() in generateDS.py. But, yes I do worry that changing this might break someone's code, although I don't think that is too likely. Still ... When I changed the naming convention for getters and setters (for example, from getName() to get_name()), I implemented a command line option (--use-old-getter-setter) that could be used to generate the old code. What if we had a --use-old-properties command line option? Give me a day or two to look into it. I'll report back. - Dave -- Dave Kuhlman http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ generateds-users mailing list generateds-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/generateds-users
