Using the Eclipse templates
Comments(0) The latest release of Naked Objects (version 4) provides a set of templates for quickly adding snippets to your domain classes, from properties and collections to title and dependencies.
To set up Eclipse so these are available you need to import the template files that are included in the distribution. In both the Ant and Maven based distributions they can be found the following directory:
resources |-- ide | `-- eclipse | |-- launch | `-- templates | |-- jmock2-templates.xml | |-- junit4-templates.xml | `-- nakedobjects-templates.xml
Open up Eclipse’s preferences dialog (Windows/Preferences) and navigate to Java – Editor - Template. Click the Import button, browse to the templates directory, select the nakedobjects-templates.xml file and press OK. A series of templates will be added prefixed with no such as noa, nol, nop etc. Press OK to commit the changes and you are ready to use them.
For example, to insert a property type nop in the editor window within the class declations and press ctrl-space to bring up the available templates.
Each template has a brief description and the template result is shown in the box next to the list. Selecting the template inserts the code into your file at the cursor replacing the template name that you typed.
It also highlights the parts that you can change. So in this example, when we type Purchase, tab, Date, tab, and date we end up with a complete property declaration for a Date value that will display with the label Date as we can see below.
The other files each provide a couple of templates for building Junit version 4 tests and using JMock.
The available Naked Objects templates are:-
| noa | Action |
|---|---|
| noacho | Action argument N choices |
| noadef | Action argument defaults |
| noadis | Action disabling |
| noahid | Action hiding |
| noaval | Action validation |
| noc-1m | Collection (1:m bidir parent) |
| noc-mmc | Collection (m:m bidir child) |
| noc-mmp | Collection (m:m bidir parent) |
| nocdis | Collection disabling |
| nochid | Collection hiding |
| nocl | Collection (list) |
| nocmod | Collection modify |
| nocs | Collection (set) |
| nocval | Collection validation |
| nod | Dependencies region |
| nods | Dependencies – injected service |
| nofp | Factory – new instance (persistent) |
| noft | Factory – new instance (transient) |
| noid | Identification region |
| noidicon | Identification – icon |
| noidtitle | Identification – title |
| nol | Lifecycle region |
| nolc | Lifecycle – create |
| noll | Lifecycle – load |
| nolp | Lifecycle – persist |
| nolr | Lifecycle – remove |
| nolu | Lifecycle – update |
| nop | Property |
| nop-11c | Property (1:1 bidir child) |
| nop-11p | Property (1:1 bidir parent) |
| nop-m1 | Property (m:1 bidir child) |
| nopcho | Property choices |
| nopdef | Property defaults |
| nopdis | Property disabling |
| nophid | Property hiding |
| nopmod | Property modify |
| nopval | Property validation |
| nosa | Search for all |
| nosafil | Search for all matching |
| nosffil | Search for first matching |
| nosufil | Search for unique matching |
| noval | Object-level validation |