> 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.

No worries. I think we need to insert a title header into both pages to make it 
more clear.

Andrus


On Jul 20, 2011, at 8:14 PM, Joseph Senecal wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

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