[forge-dev] How to customize generation?

Lincoln Baxter, III lincolnbaxter at gmail.com
Wed Jan 4 01:26:22 EST 2012


Yeah, I like simple.

I'm even suggesting we don't use the classpath for this. Just use a plain
folder somewhere.

Thoughts?
Lincoln

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:29 AM, Richard Kennard <
richard at kennardconsulting.com> wrote:

> Agree 100%. If Lincoln can set up the 'override folder' mechanism, I'll
> refactor the existing scaffolding resources to be much 'flatter'.
>
> Twill be sweet!
>
> Richard.
>
> On 4/01/2012 4:26 PM, Dan Allen wrote:
> > I like the idea of a drop-in file set.
> >
> > I suggest reconsidering the heavily nested structure. One thing that
> people really love about RoR, Grails and so forth is that they don't
> overcomplicate
> > things. A prime example is folders. In Java we are obsessed with this
> idea of prefixing everything with a domain name so that common names will
> ever have
> > a remote chance of conflicting. But are their really going to be like a
> hundred tools named forge? or even two?
> >
> > Having said all that, here's my suggestion:
> >
> > src/main/resources/forge/scaffolding
> >
> > or, to be less technology specific w/ regards to the scaffolding
> >
> > src/main/resources/scaffolding
> >
> > As Lincoln likes to say, keep it simple. Lincoln, is this inline with
> your motto?
> >
> > -Dan
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 14:40, Richard Kennard <
> richard at kennardconsulting.com <mailto:richard at kennardconsulting.com>>
> wrote:
> >
> >     Lincoln,
> >
> >     I don't think this should be an API. It needs to be something users
> can 'drop in' without needing to compile any code.
> >
> >     I'm fine with a single folder called '/resources'. I chose that name
> to mirror Maven /src/main/resources, since the subfolder structure from
> then on
> >     should
> >     be the same. This'd help people who are digging around in the plugin
> code to determine what resource names they needed to override.
> >
> >     '/resources' then gets added to Forge's classpath as the first thing
> on the list. So when I do...
> >
> >
> .getResource("org/jboss/forge/scaffold/faces/scaffold/create.xhtml"); or
> >
> compiler.compile("org/jboss/forge/scaffold/faces/scaffold/create.xhtml")
> >
> >     ...I will always pick up the override first if there is one at
> /resources/org/jboss/forge/scaffold/faces/scaffold/create.xhtml.
> >
> >     Seeing as how users may want to drop in a new metawidget.xml, we'd
> need some ability to add arbitrary JARs too. Either under /resources or
> /lib or
> >     somewhere else. They then can easily drop in a new bit of code, and
> configure Metawidget to use it.
> >
> >     But Max may have a more experienced position :)
> >
> >     Richard.
> >
> >     On 4/01/2012 5:34 AM, Lincoln Baxter, III wrote:
> >     > This sounds like something that would be really good for users. I
> guess I just need to know what specifically you think this should look
> like, then we
> >     > can define an API or even just a config setting (using the new
> configuration API) might be enough. Is this just a single directory?
> Multiple? What does
> >     > the layout look like? Do we want a configured path for each image,
> stylesheet, and file, or will we look up children by a specific file-name?
> >     >
> >     > Thoughts?
> >     > ~Lincoln
> >     >
> >     > On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 3:11 AM, Richard Kennard <
> richard at kennardconsulting.com <mailto:richard at kennardconsulting.com>
> >     <mailto:richard at kennardconsulting.com <mailto:
> richard at kennardconsulting.com>>> wrote:
> >     >
> >     >     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
> >     > >
> >     > > Templatepath was a list of directories and we used the the
> classpath as the last fallback, meaning it would pickup the tools provided
> ones.
> >     > >
> >     > > 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.
> >     > >
> >     > > i.e. we had a view, pojo, hbm and a few others to separate them
> properly and to avoid name collisions.
> >     > >
> >     > > /max
> >     > >
> >     > > On Dec 23, 2011, at 06:20, Richard Kennard wrote:
> >     > >
> >     > >> 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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> >     > > /max
> >     > > http://about.me/maxandersen
> >     > >
> >     > >
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