On Today at 12:04pm, AS=>Andrew Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
AS> [..snip..]
Hi Andrew,
Thanks for the quick response. I snipped the upper part of your email as I
don't use EJBs and perhaps I should have explained my intended use of
xdoclet with 1.5 sources before I even posed the question in this thread.
I use xdoclet in a struts application only. Typical usage is to generate
action forms, struts config file, validation files, tlds, etc. What I was
hoping was that I would be able to use java 1.5 generics while generating
the action forms.
AS>
AS> Once you've got XJavadoc to expose the annotations,
AS>
Annotations, thankfully, are the least of my worries at the moment :-)
All I am after (I say that lightly) is that when I specify:
public java.util.List<Post> posts;
in a field, that I should be able to get the generic part in my action
form instead of just being able to get the plain vanilla:
public List posts;
That's what I meant by making the .xdt templates 1.5 aware.
Perhaps the solution is a little simpler now that I have (hopefully)
clarified it a little further.
AS> probably the easiest way to have the templates make use of them is to
AS> update the tag handlers, so that e.g. <XDTClass:ifHasClassTag> looks
AS> for a class-level annotation of the same name as well as the @tag.
AS> Otherwise you'll end up more or less duplicating everything that's in
AS> the templates to test for the annotations too. Alternatively, you
AS> could leave the API as it is, but have the various classes return an
AS> XTag for each annotation too. That way you don't have to update the
AS> tag handlers either. Of course, once the "standard" metadata names
AS> get finalised, you'll probably want to update the templates to look
AS> for class/method tags with those names too. There's already some
AS> support in there for alternative tag names (mainly used in the jboss
AS> module, I think).
AS>
AS> No doubt Konstantin will be along in a minute to suggest you consider
AS> XDoclet 2 for any new development (at http://xdoclet.codehaus.org) ;-)
AS> I don't know how well (if at all) the QDox parser which that uses
AS> handles 1.5 syntax, though.
AS>
I might give XDoclet 2 a try, if I find that it does everything that I
need it to do which I currently do with XDoclet 1.
AS>
AS> Andrew.
AS>
Regards,
--
Haroon Rafique
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