Command Line interface to the EA HTML Generator

[SwissSteve]

Is it possible to drive the HTML generator from the command line?
I would like to output the model in HTML format overnight with the goal of being able to link to key documents in a wiki?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

[Oliver F.]

Is it possible to drive the HTML generator from the command line?
I would like to output the model in HTML format overnight with the goal of being able to link to key documents in a wiki?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

That is what the Addin API is for.
You can write an external program which can be started to script all sorts of operations.
More information can be gathered from the program help and the sparx systems resources web site.

Oliver

[SwissSteve]

 OK I will read the AddIn API doc.
I was hoping EA would have something already to provide this.
I guess I am not the first person to want to do this so hopefully a simple solution will get posted.

[SwissSteve]

I have read the AddIn API and got the test C# Addin example running ok but it is still not clear to me how to trigger the HTML generator from within my Addin code.

anyone any ideas?

[Frank Horn]

In the EA_MenuClick method you have a parameter Repository. This has a GetProjectInterface method returning an object which has a RunHTMLReport method.

For a command line tool instead of an AddIn you would have to create an EA.Repository object and call it's OpenFile method.

[SwissSteve]

thanks frank

[SwissSteve]

the following code works fine for accessing the EA model.  It seems to bring the whole model out which is what I want.   My question is how to open a repository when storing EA in a DB?

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              repository = new EA.Repository();
                repository.OpenFile("<eap location>");
                project = repository.GetProjectInterface();
                project.RunHTMLReport("", "c:\\test", "PNG", "default", "htm");


[Frank Horn]

It's in the online help for the OpenFile method:

You can also connect to a SQL database by passing in the connection string itself instead of a filename. A valid connection string can be obtained from the Open Project dialog by selecting a recently opened SQL repository.

[«Midnight»]

Or through the Repository.ConnectionString property.

[This seems to have crept into the API documentation after the portion Frank cites.]

[SwissSteve]

My searching did not reveal a link to the on line help you are referring to. Can you post a link if possible

[RoyC]

Both items are in the Repository topic:

http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/EAUserGuide/index.html?repository3.htm

ConnectString is in the first (Attributes) table and OpenFile is in the second (Methods) table.

[SwissSteve]

Got it.  thanks for the help