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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: adkj2a on September 17, 2008, 10:42:53 pm

Title: Forward code generation
Post by: adkj2a on September 17, 2008, 10:42:53 pm

Hello,

I'm coding in C++, and I want to develop an automatically generated 'Serialization' method.

The idea is that each member of the class will be generated into the function. Something like that (where 'm_a' and 'm_b' are properties stereotyped as 'Serializable') :

// Automatically generated function
void MyClass::Serialization()
{
    SerMngr.Serialize(m_a);
    SerMngr.Serialize(m_b);
}

I've writtent the templates, and my problem is that the function is only generated once.

If the coder adds another property to the class - it doesn't update the function.

Setting the 'Tools|Options|Source...|Replace(overwrite)' to true - is not an option because it will delete the other code in the class.

Does EA has a solution for this thing?   Maybe something creative, like writing the 'Serialization' function into a different file, which will always be overwritten?


Thank you,

John.