This is a small framework that allows using YAML files to populate WebObjects/EOF based applications.
I found this really useful for the following use cases:
- Development
- Initial users for newly deployed applications
- Marketing/demo deployments
A reference of the YAML markup language can be found here: YAML Reference.
Inspired by the fixtures mechanism in the Play! framework.
- Add EOFFixtures to your WebObjects/WOnder application's build path (as a WebObjects framework in Eclipse).
- Create a YAML file (default name is fixtures.yaml, you can change this via the EOFFixtures.fileName property) in your Resources folder. (For an example see the FixturesClient project.)
- In your application's Properties, set "EOFFixtures.loadInitialData" to true or manually call Fixtures.load().
- Pro-tip: Using different Properties.username files, you can define different fixtures for different environments.
- To build this as a framework, you have to set ${scala.home} to your Scala install dir
- Use the custom timestamp tags to ease the creation of NSTimestamp
- !now for the current date (aka
new NSTimestamp()) - !ts to create a calculated timestamp, in the format
<signed-number> <days|weeks|months>, for example!ts +3 days,!ts -3 weeks,!ts -1 month.
Enjoy!