Thanks! I have my custom templates working now :-)
Sorry about the false report for a documentation problem. The pages looked so similar that I thought they were linking to the same page. I should have looked closer. Joe On Jul 20, 2011, at 12:59 AM, Andrus Adamchik wrote: > > On Jul 20, 2011, at 10:48 AM, Joseph Senecal wrote: > >> The page: http://cayenne.apache.org/doc/cgen.html >> describes a tag: supertemplate >> By activating Maven debuging, I was able to determine that this tag is >> actually: superTemplate >> And that it is case sensitive. > > Actually you are reading the Ant cgen docs. Ant task parameters are case > insensitive. The Maven plugin docs are here and this page correctly shows the > name as "superTemplate": > > http://cayenne.apache.org/doc/maven2-cgen.html > > >> What I can't determine is what I should put in that tag to have it use my >> template instead of the default template. Even though my template is just a >> copy of the default template, any use of the superTemplate tag results in an >> error message and no file generation. Here is the error message: >> 7/20/11 12:33:26 AM PDT: Build errors for SFS; >> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute >> goal org.apache.cayenne.plugins:maven-cayenne-plugin:3.1M2:cgen (cgen) on >> project SFS: Error generating classes: >> >> I've tried putting in the file name relative to the project/pom. I've tried >> just the directory that it's in. I've even tried a fully qualified name. >> None of these worked. >> >> Has anyone used a custom cgen template? How do you specify it? > > I haven't used it in a while, but it should be something like this: > > <configuration> > <superTemplate > >${project.build.sourceDirectory}/../templates/mytemplate.vm</superTemplate> > > </configuration> > > ${project.build.sourceDirectory} is equal to "yourproject/src/main/java", and > the above assumes you put your templates under > "yourproject/src/main/templates". The location is arbitrary of course. > > Andrus
