On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Clarance Howatt wrote:
> Yes this is related to what I was trying to do and I did receive your
> suggestions. Thank you. I am sorry for not acknowledging them. We are
you dont need to say sorry (o: I was just checking I wasn't off thinking
about the wrong thing.
> taking your advice but there is still a problem. Lets say that I have a
> persistent field "COMPANY_NAME" and I want to add an audit field
> "LAST_MODIFIED_DATE". This is what I do (I think).
firstly... again to get me thinking about the right problem. do you want
one field per bean that records when _any_ field was changed? (as opposed
to one for each field on the bean)
> - I add code to the template to set the LAST_MODIFIED_DATE within the setter
> for all persistent fields.
> - I add a getter and a setter for COMPANY_NAME and include the persistent
> tag.
> - I add code to the jboss-jaws_xml.j (I am using JBoss) and ejb-jar_xml.j to
> add the LAST_MODIFIED_DATE as a persistent field.
>
> This works but I thought that it would be cleaner to have a tag that would
> allow me to insert getter/setter code specific to that method. I think this
> would be valuable for classes as well although I don't have a use for the
> ifClassName tag right now.
I'm not sure it would really be much cleaner... certainly be more abstract
and usable by other templates. Do you feel you'd be up to writing the
new method (along the lines suggested by Ara)? Have a look at some of the
other ifBlah methods for hints (o:
cheesr
dim
>
> Thanks again.
> C.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dmitri Colebatch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 5:28 PM
> To: Clarance Howatt
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Xdoclet-user] Looking for a new template tag
>
>
> I've just read Andrew's post on this, and figured that this is related to
> what you were doing the other day, yes? Did you understand my
> suggestion? The fieldNameLastModified field's getter's and setter's can
> be generated based on the getter's for the fieldnames - your real problem
> is going to be in ejb2 cmp how to do it... anyway, not 100% about how
> you're planning to implement it but want to make sure you received my
> suggestion...
>
> > This is an enhancement request. I would like to see two new template tags
> > included in XDoclet
> > 1. <ifMethodNameEqual>
> > 2. <ifMethodNameNotEqual>
>
> I see no problem with this, but am surprised we dont have something
> similar. I know we have <ifHasMethod> and stuff, but its not quite the
> same thing. The other thing you could do is use the "looping variable" -
> I cant remember what its called, but have seen functionality where you can
> basically set a variable and then test against it, as a workaround you may
> be able to do that.
>
> Having said that, if you want to send a patch with those tags, it'd be
> welcome.
>
> cheers
> dim
>
>
> >
> > These tags would allow me to include code within a template that is
> targeted
> > at a specific method within a class. After looking at the source I think
> > that these will be very easy to create but I would like to know others
> > thoughts before I create them.
> >
> > C.
> >
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