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mygeneration xml input format
MyGeneration is an open source code generation tool. I love using it but I felt that opening up MyGeneration every time I needed to update or create a generated file was too time consuming. Yes I am that lazy. There is a command line tool that comes with MyGeneration called zeuscmd.exe. Documentaion on zuescmd is sparse. zeuscmd has four switches that I care about
| Switch | Effect |
|---|---|
| -t | the path to the template that zeuscmd is going to use |
| -o | the path where the output from the template will be saved |
| -i | the path for the xml based input |
| -c | the path where the input params are saved |
The -i switch is the one I am the most in; however, I couldn't find any documentation on the format of the xml input. After a little playing around with "MyGeneration":http://mygeneration.sourceforge.net/ I was able to figure it out and I figured I would put it on the web.
< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
< obj name="" uid=" the guid of the template " path=" the full path to the template ">
< items>
< item name="parameter name no spaces" type="System.String|System.Boolean|etc" val="the value of the input item" />
< item name="dbname" type="System.String" val="database_of_awesomeness" />
< item name="your_own_param" type="System.String" val="value_in_the_template" />
< /items>
< /obj>Note: the extra spaces in the tags are there so they will render on this website
Now there a few input values that MyGeneration uses and you probably have to pass them in order for the template to generate. These are the MyGeneration values for the template I am running on my computer. I am using sqlexpress as the db and vb as the template language.
| Key | Value |
|---|---|
| __dbConnectionString | Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;Integrated Security=SSPI;Persist Security Info=False;User ID=myuser;Initial Catalog=mydatabase;Data Source=myserver |
| __dbDriver | SQL |
| __dbLanguageMappingFileName | C:\Program Files\MyGeneration13\Settings\Languages.xml |
| __dbTarget | SqlClient |
| __dbTargetMappingFileName | C:\Program Files\MyGeneration13\Settings\DbTargets.xml |
| __defaultOutputPath | C:\Program Files\MyGeneration13\GeneratedCode\ |
| __defaultTemplatePath | C:\Program Files\MyGeneration13\Templates\ |
| __domainOverride | True |
| __language | C# |
| __userMetaDataFileName | C:\Program Files\MyGeneration13\Settings\UserMetaData.xml |
| __version | 1.3.0.0 |
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