About this commit:
Again, I don't know how this worked before. There's no basePackageName
defined for client datamap (and I think never should be - datamap generated
class doesn't have a superclass. maybe we should remove that row?) so
ImportUtils added something like ${basePackageName}.${baseClassName}. So
maybe we should've fixed ImportUtils behavior, but I decided to do minor
change for now.
So, in spite of it is velocity upgrade that broke the builds, our templates
are not perfect. Note that new templates (hopefully) will work with both
versions of Velocity.
About versions:
I think that we don't need them. Who's using cgen 1.1 now [with Cayenne 3]?
Also cgen is part of Cayenne, so I'd say we have cgen 3.1 right now.
2010/2/19 Mike Kienenberger <mkienen..mail.com>
> Yes, we need a cgen version, although it will probably change very
> infrequently.
>
> No, it is not the same version as the templates. Even though Andrey
> had to change the templates, we do not have to change cgen itself.
>
> It's been a long time since I upgraded cgen from version 1.1 to 1.2,
> but basically the version determines what cgen puts into the velocity
> context.
>
> For cgen 1.1, I think the only thing we made available to the template
> was a java class instance called "classGen".
>
> For 1.2, the exposed data model was completely changed. Here's some
> of the variables exposed to the template (from the 1.2 standard
> template comments):
>
> ## objEntity - the ObjEntity class: See
> org.objectstyle.cayenne.map.ObjectEntity
> ## stringUtils - class for string "helper" functions: See
> org.objectstyle.cayenne.gen.StringUtils
> ## entityUtils - class for entity "helper" functions: See
> org.objectstyle.cayenne.gen.EntityUtils
> ## importUtils - class for import statement management: See
> org.objectstyle.cayenne.gen.ImportUtils
>
> So a template written against 1.1 cannot work under 1.2, nor can a
> template under 1.2 work under cgen 1.1.
>
> As for the confusion, if it hasn't confused anyone in several years,
> it's unlikely to start confusing them just because we're now on 3.1 :)
>
> However, a cgen 1.1 template can work with Velocity 1.3 or 1.6 or whatever.
> A cgen 1.2 template can likewise work with different versions of velocity.
>
> So someone who has a ton of velocity templates (like myself) can be
> assured that they don't need to be rewritten under Cayenne 3.1. Yes,
> we might have to tweak a couple of things here and there if we upgrade
> to velocity 1.6, but anyone who's maintaining their own velocity
> templates has pretty much been aware (for a few years now) that we
> were going to have to handle this at one point or another.
>
> And quite honestly, I doubt that there's really anything stopping
> someone from reverting back to Velocity 1.3 if they so desire.
> There's nothing architecturally different that I'm aware of. I
> haven't looked at velocity changes in a couple of years, but I'm
> pretty sure that velocity 1.6 is at least a couple of years old at
> this point.
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Aristedes Maniatis <ar..aniatis.org>
> wrote:
> > On 19/02/10 9:44 AM, Mike Kienenberger wrote:
> >>
> >> v1.2 is the cgen version. It's fine and doesn't need to be changed.
> >> We would only change that version if we did further work on the cgen
> >> engine.
> >
> > End users will probably confuse 1.2 with the Cayenne 1.2 release version
> > number.
> >
> > * why do we have a version at all? Surely the templates which ship with
> > Cayenne 3.1 are the templates which work with 3.1. Should the user be
> given
> > the choice to use version 1.1 templates or 1.2 templates, when only the
> 1.2
> > templates will work.
> >
> > * Andrey just introduced a change which makes the templates non-backward
> > compatible. So if we keep the versioning, we should move to 1.3 to
> identify
> > to the user that things have changed.
> >
> >
> >
> > Ari
> >
> > --
> > -------------------------->
> > Aristedes Maniatis
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>
-- Andrey
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