[xsd-users] Custom get/set methods

[Mogulothu, Vinay K]

Hi Boris,

  Thank you. We have looked at the option of customizing the generated
types, but as you mentioned it requires scripts to add the custom
wrappers for this option. We are interested in generating custom
class/function names. Please let us know if this feature is an easy
addition.

  Regards
   Vinay

-----Original Message-----
From: Boris Kolpackov [mailto:boris at codesynthesis.com] 
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 8:27 AM
To: Mogulothu, Vinay K
Cc: xsd-users at codesynthesis.com; Janiv, Amnon
Subject: Re: [xsd-users] Custom get/set methods

Hi Vinay,

Mogulothu, Vinay K <vinay.mogulothu at lehman.com> writes:

> The code generated from C++/tree has get/set methods with the 
> attribute name, we would like to provide the methods through 
> getAttribute, setAttribute for access

Do you want attribute accessor/modifier functions to be in the form
getFoo/setFoo where "Foo" is the name of the attribute -or- do you want
to have getAttribute("Foo")/setAttribute("Foo")?

> From the three cardinality classes, the access methods for cardinality

> one and sequence if we can add prefix get/set would work for us, for 
> the cardinality optional, do we have to write the get/set methods as 
> wrappers and access the underlying attribute using get() and set()

I guess you want to add the get/set prefixes to accessors/modifiers.
You can do it by customizing the generated types. That is, you can
instruct the XSD compiler to generate the normal mapping for XML Schema
types with different names and then you can inherit your "wrapper" types
from these generated types and implement the get/set functions by
calling the generated versions. For more information on type
customization see the C++/Tree Mapping Customization Guide:

http://wiki.codesynthesis.com/Tree/Customization_guide

As well as the examples in the examples/cxx/tree/custom/ directory.


This approach will work fine for small schemas where you have a handful
of types. For large vocabularies this will be a daunting task.

A feature that would allow changing the generated class/function names
has been requested before. I guess it would work fairly well for your
situation. We are still considering implementing this so let me know if
you are interested and we can see if we can make something for you to
try.

Boris

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