Hi John, These look brilliant!
It would be great if you added this to the Wiki page for EOGenerator templates & additions: http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WOL/EOGenerator+Templates+and+Additions I think this is cool enough that you should put together a patch for Wonder! Dave On Dec 17, 2010, at 3:54 PM, John Huss wrote: > If anyone is interested, I recently came up with an EO template enhancement > that allows for much better keypath creation using ERXKeys. It works by > creating an inner class in each eo class that exposes methods for appending > each of it's keys to a key path that is being built. Then you can construct > key paths like this: > > MovieRole.path.talent().photo().photo().key() // returns > talent.photo.photo > instead of > MovieRole.TALENT.dot(Talent.PHOTO).dot(TalentPhoto.PHOTO).key() > > > OR > > TalentPhoto.path.talent().roles().roleName().eq("Actor") // returns > qualifier for talent.roles.roleName > instead of > TalentPhoto.TALENT.dot(Talent.ROLES).dot(Role.ROLE_NAME).eq("Actor") > > > This is an improvement for a few reasons: > 1) More readable > 2) Guarantees the validity of the whole key path, whereas before only the > individual parts were checked > 3) Code completion the whole way through eliminates thinking > 4) More closely matches the syntax used to access the actual values > > To add this functionality, paste the attached snippet into your own copy of > the _WonderEntity.java template (mine is right after the class declaration). > > Note: this requires a fairly recent version Wonder to work correctly. > > John > <key path template.txt> _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/webobjects%40avendasora.com > > This email sent to [email protected]
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