[forge-dev] How to customize generation?

[Richard Kennard]

I think this sounds like a great idea. It should probably be 'Forge-wide' rather than specific to the scaffolding, as I imagine other plugins might have a 
similar requirement. Lincoln can you define something?

Regards,

Richard.

On 23/12/2011 11:26 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
> In Hibernate Tools I had a notion of a template path (classpath is not appropriate for this IMO).
>
> http://docs.jboss.org/tools/3.3.0.M5/en/hibernatetools/html_single/index.html
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> Templatepath was a list of directories and we used the the classpath as the last fallback, meaning it would pickup the tools provided ones.
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> I also went the "extra step" and placed these templates in "packages" a.k.a. sub directory to allow the different
> template usages to be configured via just one template path.
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> i.e. we had a view, pojo, hbm and a few others to separate them properly and to avoid name collisions.
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> /max
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> On Dec 23, 2011, at 06:20, Richard Kennard wrote:
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>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I've written up a bit of documentation for the scaffolding here: https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/FORGE/UI+Scaffolding
>>
>> But I have a question around the customization. Clearly, we have some nice template files like 'create.xhtml' and 'BackingBean.jv' which can be edited in
>> any text editor. And we have a nice separation of the CSS/image files that can be replaced to change the look and feel.
>>
>> But how are we expecting people to 'get at' these files? Are they supposed to extend the existing scaffold plugin? Or open up the JAR and edit these files?
>> Or can they be placed 'on the classpath' somehow such that they will be found before the ones in the scaffolding JAR? Or some other way?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard.
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