[forge-dev] Generate Code with Forge

[Rafael Pestano]

Hello Paul, thanks for your enlightening reply.

The plugin is about a code generator for a home made Java EE6 framework and
for instance it will generate very simple xhtml and java classes, so for
example the generate-controller plugin would generate

*@ViewAccessScoped
@Named("personMBean")
public class PersonMBean extends AbstractBaseMBean<Person> implements
Serializable, ModalObserver {

   @Inject
    public void setPersonService(PersonService personService) {*//service
layer will be generated togheter*
        super.setBaseService(personService);
    }

some other very simple methods
}*

for the controller-plugin maybe i dont need to understand the model class
(just to import it) cause its just a matter of replacing parammeters by the
domain object but in the view-plugin it will be necessary for sure.

Another concern i have is how to format the generated code? maybe the
velocity template could help on that.

Ive seen the Arquillian example, how can i clone it and forge project?

Thanks again!



2011/10/23 Paul Bakker <paul.bakker.nl at gmail.com>

> Hi Rafael,
>
> There are two things you need to do:
> 1) "understand" the Person class
> 2) generate new code
>
>
>  1)
> You can use a command parameter to get the Person class: @Option(name =
> "class", required = true, type = PromptType.JAVA_CLASS) JavaResource
> classUnderTest
>
> JavaResource is a rich file representation of the class.
> Now you can use the JavaSourceFacet to get information about the class
> itself:
>
> JavaSourceFacet java = project.getFacet(JavaSourceFacet.class);
> JavaSource<?> javaSource = classUnderTest.getJavaSource();
>
> javaSource has methods such as getPackage() etc.
>
> 2)
> Now you have to generate code. There are two ways to do this, depending on
> your needs.
> The most elegant way is to use the "JavaParser" builder API:
>
> JavaClass javaClass = JavaParser.create(JavaClass.class)
>                .setPackage(entityPackage)
>                .setName(entityName)
>                .setPublic()
>                .addAnnotation(Entity.class).getOrigin()
>                .addInterface(Serializable.class);
> Field<JavaClass> id = javaClass.addField("private Long id = null;");
> ….
>
> My experience is that this works best for small classes. If you need to
> generate a lot of code it might be better to use a tempting framework such
> as Apache Velocity.
> You can find an example of this in the code of the Arquillian plugin:
> https://github.com/forge/plugin-arquillian/blob/master/src/main/java/org/jboss/seam/forge/arquillian/ArquillianPlugin.java#L93
>
> You can just add Velocity to your pom file and it will work.
>
> If you have any more questions, let us know! What kind of plugin are you
> writing?
>
> Paul Bakker
>
>
> On Oct 23, 2011, at 2:26 AM, Rafael Pestano wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> this is my first mail to this list and id like to congratulate the Forge
> team for their work.
>
> my question is, what's the best way to generate .java, .xhtml files with
> forge?
>
> Id like to write a plugin which would receive an entity class as parameter
> and generate some code on top of it, eg:
>
> $ generate-service Person
> $ generate-controller Person
> $ generate-view Person
>
>
> Where Person is a domain object, is it possible with Forge? if yes, whats
> the best way?
>
>
> thanks in advance.
>
>
>
>
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>
> Rafael M. Pestano
>
> Desenvolvedor Java Cia. de Processamento de Dados do Rio Grande do Sul
> Graduando em Ciência da Computação UFRGS
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Rafael M. Pestano

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Graduando em Ciência da Computação UFRGS
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