By the way, if the org.generama.WriterMapper would use some interface instead
of Plugin directly, I could do my own plugin as below. Now not...
Thanks for any ideas,
M
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>From: Justin Case <send_lotsa_spam_h...@yahoo.com>
>To: "xdoclet-user@lists.sourceforge.net" <xdoclet-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
>Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 10:56 AM
>Subject: [Xdoclet-user] generating multiple files
>
>
>Hi all,
>
>
>I have been using from XDoclet1 the VO plugin which was working fine (except
>having no support for generics). I'm not talking about the EJB plugin's VO
>functionality, but the standalone VO plugin. Well XDoclet2 doesn't have this
>plugin anymore... It wouldn't have been such a big deal if I had discovered
>how to create MULTIPLE files out of one single input.
>
>
>Remember the old VO? You'd give a Java class a few annotations like this,
>telling how many VOs should be created from the class:
>
>@vo:value-object name="FirstVO" match="First"
>@vo:value-object name="AnotherVO" match="Second"
>
>then for each field you could tell which generated VO has accessors for it
>based on the "match" keyword:
>@vo:field match="Second"
>
>
>I could imagine calling a regular plugin a few times, but this is just a silly
>approach - I don't know how many times should that one be called, and I can't
>iterate in the Ant task on the class metadata either. Hardcoding everything in
>the Ant file is a even weaker solution.
>
>
>I thought I would need a new plugin for this, and I checked how to write it.
>One has to go as high as reimplementing the org.generama.Plugin because
>there's where the rule "one output/input" is decided (in start()). Subclassing
>Plugin is not an option as pretty much all its fields are private (and I'd
>have to duplicate all the code from JavaGeneratingPlugin and QDoxPlugin). Then
>I have no description on what actually a metadata should contain :) and
>generally speaking there's no documentation of the 1.0.4 plugins release, of
>1.0.5 even less (the release is not even mentioned on the site just in an
>email). The Maven build is missing a couple of dependencies for the 1.0.4
>plugins and I miss the sources for 1.0.5 to even try. Did I mention I hate
>Eclipse M2E? Shortly put: I see no chance of doing it myself.
>
>
>
>Do you have any hint for me, how could I generate multiple files out a single
>Java input? Honestly said, at this moment patching together a QDox+Velocity
>Ant task looks to me an easier approach than using XDoclet2 :(
>
>
>
>Thanks a lot,
>M
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