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Property Loop |
To add property values (types, names, etc.) you have to do a "property loop". Use the following code: |
$doproperty[(a,b)]$ | start the loop (this line is removed) |
...... | the body of the loop (indentation is kept) |
$loop$ | end the loop (this line is removed) |
You can also use the inline property loop ($ploop(a,b,'...','...')$),
a tag that generates a one-line string based on property
values. For more information on Property Loops read the Property Loop Tags page |
Property tags |
Loops are executed exactly once for each property of the bean. Inside the loop use the following tags to dynamically insert property values: |
$index$ | The sequence number of the property, starting from 0 |
$count$ | The sequence number of the property, starting from 1 |
$pre$ | Hungarian variable prefix for the property(eg, "b" for booleans) |
$propertytype$ | The type of the property, i.e. the first string token of a line in the Properties box |
$property$ | The property name as written in the Properties box (the 2nd token) |
$Property$ | The property name having the first character capitalised |
$fieldname$ | The database field name as written in the Properties box (3rd token - optional). |
$fieldtype$ | The database field type (4th token) |
$fieldisnull$ | Results to true or false
depending on whether the database field NULLability value is set to nothing or NOT_NULL respectively (5th token - optional) |
Additionally, the following tags can be used in order to produce aligned text output by padding strings with spaces at the end: |
$propertytype_rpad$ | The type of the property right-padded with spaces to the maximum length of any property type |
$property_rpad$ | The property name as written in the Properties box. (eg, "firstName"), right-padded with spaces to the maximum length of any property type |
$Property_rpad$ | The property name having the first character capitalised (eg, "FirstName"), right-padded with spaces to the maximum length of any property type |
$fieldname_rpad$ | The database field name, right-padded with spaces to the maximum length of any field name |
$fieldtype_rpad$ | The database field type, right-padded with spaces to the maximum length of any field type |
You can also access the maximum length of property names and property types by using the following tags: |
$maxproplen$ | The maximum length (in chars) of property names used in a bean |
$maxtypelen$ | The maximum length (in chars) of property types used in a bean |
$maxfieldlen$ | The maximum length (in chars) of field names used in a bean |
$maxfieldtypelen$ | The maximum length (in chars) of field types used in a bean |
Property Array tags |
Most of the above tags can be used as arrays to get an indexed property attribute. The property index runs from 0 to
$propertycount$-1 . The following tags can be used as arrays: |
$propertytype[n]$ | $property[n]$ | $Property[n]$ |
$propertytype_rpad[n]$ | $property_rpad[n]$ | $Property_rpad[n]$ |
$fieldname[n]$ | $fieldtype[n]$ | $fieldisnull[n]$ |
$fieldname_rpad[n]$ | $fieldtype_rpad[n]$ | $pre[n]$ |
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Argument & Member variable prefixes |
Hungarian notation is sometimes used to denote arguments and member variables. The following tags although they
can be used anywhere in the template, they are normally used inside a property loop: |
$arg$ | prefix of method arguments (eg, a_) |
$var$ | prefix of member variables (eg, m_) |
Constants |
The BeanMaker engine also defines two constants which are particularly useful in
loops and functions, although they can be used anywhere in the template: |
%EOL% | Inserts an End-Of-Line marker (CR,LF) |
%BACKSPACE% | Inserts a backspace, i.e. deletes the character before it |