How can code be generated using an automation script?

[heba]

Hi all,

I want to generate code for classes using an automation script and I'm searching for the respective method.  There should be something like Element.Generate(File, Language) but I cannot find it. And I'm quite sure that I have seen something like this 

Use case is to generate a package resp. some elements of it two times with a different language in each run.

Thanks,
Heiko

[qwerty]

See GenerateClass below in http://www.sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/12.1/automation_and_scripting/project_2.html

q.

[heba]

Thank you!

Am I right that I cannot pass my desired language even for the class?

  GenerateClass (string ElementGUID, string ExtraOptions) --> ExtraOptions: [..] currently unused

and GeneratePackage () does not provide such a feature in the ExtraOptions.

I suppose the language is taken from the GenType property and the only solution is to change that before generating?  Which again means I have to lock the package if security is enabled, right?  That could make things more complicated 

BR,
Heiko

[Geert Bellekens]

I suppose the language is taken from the GenType property and the only solution is to change that before generating?  Which again means I have to lock the package if security is enabled, right?  That could make things more complicated 

I believe that is correct yes.

Geert

[heba]

Ok, thank you!  I managed to get this to work.

Now I'm left with one final question for which my searches did not return any useful result:

To use relative paths our classes normally have a local variable like %TRUNK% in their Filename.  Is it possible to query this variable's value using the API?

Btw, I wonder why GenerateClass() does not use the "ExtraOptions". Some parameters like overwrite, dir or even lang would be useful - at least to me ;-)

BR,
Heiko

[qwerty]

They are stored in the file %appdata%\Sparx Systems\EA\paths.txt

q.

[heba]

They are stored in the file %appdata%\Sparx Systems\EA\paths.txt

Yes, but should we really use system file access to read these variables? I was hoping to find something more internal...

Passing the variable to the "dir" parameter in the "ExtraOptions", e.g. "Dir=%TRUNK%\\generated\\" does not work. It generates but the files do not seem to appear anywhere    Although this is not documented as supported, could it be that it should work but is a bug? 

BR,
Heiko

[qwerty]

Yes, we should. It's EA

q.