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Overriding Vorto Code Templates [message #1725339]

Wed, 02 March 2016 11:55

Eclipse User

User should have the ability to override default template at runtime or extend the generator template at design time.

Few typical scenarios :
Design time :
1. For iOS/ android generator, the generation code can vary as little as package name changes whenever there is a newer version. Instead of creating whole new generator, there should be a possibility to extend the template at the design time.

Runtime :
A generator can be overriden at runtime for adding certain client related information. For example rest api code generator can have domain name url pattern based on client specific additional code generation requirement.

Few Implementation options:

Design Time:
- Provide Interface for part of the Template to override all or certain parts of code snippet.

Runtime:
- Provide user option to upload template at runtime to override the default template with that of overriden template.

PS: This topic is slightly related to Configurable Vorto Generators? - https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/1075273/

Any thoughts/feedback?

[Updated on: Wed, 02 March 2016 11:59] by Moderator

Re: Overriding Vorto Code Templates [message #1725362 is a reply to message #1725339]

Wed, 02 March 2016 21:46

Eclipse User

Hi Vijay,

i definitely see your point of re-using templates to define a new generator to remove code duplication.
If we come to a point where we see code duplication in generators and it is getting very messy, we would need to implement your suggestion for sure.
At the moment I do not have a concrete generator where we require template inheritance, do you?

- Alex

Re: Overriding Vorto Code Templates [message #1725467 is a reply to message #1725362]

Thu, 03 March 2016 11:46

Eclipse User

@Alex,

Yes. Agree. I too think there is no strong usecase for this. Will leave the discussion open. We could revisit later also.

Re: Overriding Vorto Code Templates [message #1725476 is a reply to message #1725467]

Thu, 03 March 2016 12:39

Eclipse User

Good point, Vijay!

You're right this is really related to the configurable generators topic. However only supporting configuration will not cover all points that you've mentioned here. I agree that it would be great to upload templates during runtime. This would make the whole solution much more flexible. However I agree with Alex that this should be realized when there is really a need for it.

I would be very interested in other comments here! Has anyone suggestions or specific use cases that require a flexibility like this?

Cheers,

Olaf

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