CodeSmith Batch Utility

Eric,

When I was running my sample in console mode (RunMergeRegion.bat which uses MergeRegion.xml), it was replacing the whole file rather than the specified region. If you edit RunMergeRegion.bat and specify /cc (to show the command line), you should see /merge:<regionName> being included.

Running in engine mode is fine (it calls RenderToFile with the output path and the merge strategy object).

My CodeSmith.Engine.dll version is 2.6.0.117, which I think is the latest.

Have I missed something?

Cheers,
Ben

Hello,

When i run the basic based samples samples, i only obtain 1 file in the output containing the concatenation of many .cs files.

How can i obtain 1 file per property set ?

 

Thanks

CSanchez,

To do that, you will need to create multiple task elements, each with the template element defining the file you want to output, and a single property set.

Cheers,
Ben

Hi,

Thank your for your response. However, could you just give me litttle sample ?

Thanks

Chris

Check out the attached SeparateFiles.xml sample

- Copy the zip contents to the Samples folder of CodeSmithBatch.

- You can run it via RunSeparateFiles.bat

Cheers,

Ben

Updated to 1.0.9

• Corrected handling of read-only files when merging to regions.

• Cleans up old compare files (.tmp) if file is writable.

• Included SeparateFiles sample.

Cheers,

Ben

How do you specify a sql database connection in the xml file? I am using a SourceTable pointing to a table name, but get the following error message:

[0,0] CodeSmith property set 1: Template is not valid. SourceTable is required.
Error in CodeSmithContrib.Batch.Console: Error executing batch file.
---> Error executing CodeSmithConsole. Code = 1


Thanks
CJ

Hi CJ,

Everything within a <propertySet> tag should just be passed through to the template. Is that where you've specified a <SourceTable> property?

To confirm this, you can run CodeSmithBatch in debug mode and inspect the property set files generated for each task. See the readme for details.

Ben

Ben,


In the generated file I have the following property for SourceTable.

<property name="SourceTable">dbo.table1</property></propertySet>

When I run this through the gui, I am prompted to select a database connection, how is this setup in batch mode?

Thanks
CJ

CJ,

I'm afraid I haven't done a lot with properties with related controls/builders. If you configure the gui and save the property set xml from within the gui and inspect it, that might give you some idea of what you need to specify in the batch file.

Ben

Updated to 1.0.10

Major changes:
- Improved exception/error handling.
- Made output (a little) more compact.

Cheers,

Ben

PS - haven't tested this with 3.x yet.

I think I've found a bug.

<task>
  <templates>
    <template path="CollectionTemplates\IList.cst" outputPath="OutputCode\Defaults\ILists.cs"/>

If outputPath tag has spaces, output isn't generated...

I set my outputPath = c:\documents and settings\mike\ILists.cs and no output is generated.
Then I set my outputPath = c:\docum~1\mike\ILists.cs and everything works fine

the template path can have spaces so it appears to be a bug with the outputPath parsing only.