I'm working with the MappingTool now, and would like to incorporate it into
an Ant build, but the marshaller outputs the xml stream without any carriage
returns.
Is there any way around this? I quickly looked at the code, but am not sure
how to modify the marshaller, or if there would be problems doing so.
Brad
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Visco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: [castor-dev] Ant for SourceGenerator contribution
>
> Just a few comments...
>
>
> James Higginbotham wrote:
> >
> > Good point on the mapping file. There has always been a disconnect,
AFAIK,
> > with Castor's code generator. I know it was probably written as an
> > afterthought and is for convenience only.
>
> Actually it was written first! :-)
>
> Castor's Source Code Generator was originally written by me back in
> Oct/Nov of 1999.
> It's design was strictly to generate Java source code from an XML Schema
> definition.
>
> Castor was initially only an XML data binding framework. The JDO piece
> of Castor was later merged in with the XML framework before the intial
> release back in late Dec. of 1999.
>
> The mapping file was originally written by Assaf Arkin for use with JDO.
> Assaf and I later adapted it for use with Castor XML.
>
> > So, I hold nothing against the
> > team and consider Castor the "best in the biz." But, to continue the
thread,
> > here is what it looks like with all components involved:
> >
> > XSD (by hand) --> [Castor Generator] --> Java source (generated) <-->
> > Mapping files (by hand) --> DDL (by hand)
> >
> > I see a couple of opportunities:
> >
> > 1. A mapping file generator to be included in the castor Java source
> > generator - the generator currently only generates Java source, while
> > requiring the developer to write the mapping file by hand.
>
> MappingTool found in the tools package can generate a mapping file from
> a set of Java classes by using Castor XML's introspector. The sql
> elements can then be added by hand.
>
> --Keith
>
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