You are on the right track. You can write a simple Java tool (or an
Ant task) based on DbLoader class. Then use
DataMap.encodeAsXML(XMLEncoder) to store the result in an XML file.
Andrus
On Mar 14, 2008, at 5:49 PM, Tomi N/A wrote:
> I would like to be able to generate database mappings from the
> command line.
> I have glimpsed into DbLoader source as a first step (and have
> questions about it), but would like to hear your opinions about how
> this should be done (there was some talk of it on the users list).
>
> The use case would be using the GUI to set up everything (classpaths,
> DataSources etc.) and _then_ use the command line refering to existing
> data sources.
> Even better, it would be great if I could bypass it completely and
> just specify the jdbc driver class and the database connection string
> and generate a mapping with most of the parameters you can now set
> from the GUI.
>
> Cheers,
> Tomislav
>
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