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Texo/Template Overriding
Introduction
Texo uses different templates for generating different parts of the model code. The templates can be found in the org.eclipse.emf.texo.modelgenerator.templates package in the org.eclipse.emf.texo.modelgenerator plugin. You can find this plugin in CVS or in your eclipse plugins folder (after installing).
Template overriding
When generating model code, Texo checks the project properties to see if a template folder has been set in the Texo project properties. If this is the case, first this folder is checked for templates before using the standard Texo templates.
Note, Texo checks the project properties of the project which contains the model file. So if your model files are in different projects then each project needs such a templates folder set in the project properties. Currently (March 2010) the templates folder must be in the same project as the model file, in future versions it will probably be possible to select a workspace or filesystem folder outside of the project.
Overriding a template
To override one of the template you have to do the following:
- create a folder in the same project as the model file
- create a directory structure inside this folder corresponding to the Texo templates package: org/eclipse/emf/texo/modelgenerator/templates
- create your template file inside the org/eclipse/emf/texo/modelgenerator/templates folder with the exact same name as the template file used by Texo. For example to override the generation of the main model classes you need to create an entity.xpt file (probably copy the original one and adapt it).
