Aliases not taken into account!

Hi!

I just regenerated my project with the latest version of .Nettiers (rev. 467, 2007-01-17), and the Alias File hasn't been taken into account. For example, I have the alias Clients:Client in that file, but Clients.cs has been generated in the entities instead of Client.cs.

I tried various past revisions in order to be able to compile my code correctly, and I had to go back to revision 450. I did not try all of them between 450 and 467. Some of them gave me build errors in CodeSmith 3.2.7 (rev. 955).

Cheers!

JF 

I don't know why the Alias file isn't working anymore, but did you know there is now another way of doing this using a mapping file which is more flexible.

See http://community.codesmithtools.com/forums/permalink/21511/21535/ShowThread.aspx#21535

Maybe the introduction of the mapping file has broken the Alias file? 

hth

swin 

Yes I experienced this problem as well. I let .netTiers generate the mapping file automatically then modified it to match my original aliases file. Works fine, but it's something you need to be aware of before upgrading to the latest releases.

 

Hi Brett and Swin!

Ok, thanks for your answers! I can see where the .netTiers developers are going with this. It can become very handy in the future. Still, I hope they will fix the Alias file bug. It would be nice if the Alias file could be used to generate the Mapping file. Does anyone know what the various fields are/will be used for: FriendlyName, RelationshipType, IncludeInOutput, etc? Such a configuration file could be used to help generate a user interface that would be fully functional very rapidly and without needing that much tweaking.

Cheers!

JF
 

I've found that if you still want to use your Alias file you can.  Just use an empty mapping file like the one attached and NetTiers will then use the alias file if specified.

i.e.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<NetTiersMap xmlns="http://www.nettiers.com/NetTiersMap.xsd">
</NetTiersMap>

hth

swin 

In netTiers 2.2 (2.2.0.603-20070725), neither the alias file nor the mapping file works.

I tried the mapping file alone, the mapping file plus the alias file, an empty mapping file plus the alias file, and no mapping file (just path specified) plus the alias file.

I can add "s" to the StrippedTableSuffixes to get it to work for Photos, but that method gives me a PhotoGallerie entity, so I'm still stuck.

mapping.config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<NetTiersMap xmlns="http://www.nettiers.com/NetTiersMap.xsd">
 <Table Id="PhotoGalleries" EntityName="PhotoGallery" Owner="dbo" PropertyName="PhotoGallery" FieldName="photoGallery" FriendlyName="Photo Gallery" IncludeInOutput="true"/>
 <Table Id="Photos" EntityName="Photo" Owner="dbo" PropertyName="Photo" FieldName="photos" FriendlyName="Photo" IncludeInOutput="true"/>
</NetTiersMap> 

aliases.txt

PhotoGalleries:PhotoGallery
Photos:Photo

Hi, 

Did you set the NameConversion property = Mapping, or Alias in the property grid?  It's under 02. Framework Generation.

Aha... missed that one... should be in business now, thanks!

I did set the NameConversion property = Mapping as well as Alias and specified the mapping or alias file. I can not make it work. The geneated code did not pickup whatever in my mapping file.

Any suggestions?

Eva