Id Generator Winform

Use the Id Generator to generate friendly Id definitions for your unit tests..

Id Generator Input Formats

This page documents how IdGenerator/Logic.cs parses input and generates class-based IDs.

Input rules

Each non-empty line defines IDs for one Early Bound class/table.

• The first token is always the Early Bound class name (for example, Account, Contact, Acme_Project).
• Tokens are split by spaces/new lines first.
• Comma syntax is interpreted inside a token, so comma-based values should be written without spaces after commas.

Space-separated format

<EntityType> [Count]

• Count is optional.
• If omitted, one ID is generated.
• If Count is greater than 1, a collection is generated with auto names A, B, C, ...

Examples:

• Account
• Account 2

Comma-separated format

<EntityType>,<NameOrCollection>[,<IdName1>,<IdName2>...]

• If there are exactly 2 comma-separated values, the second value is treated as either:
  • a single ID/property name, or
  • a collection name (if followed by a count later, for example Contact,Employees 2).
• If there are 3+ comma-separated values:
  • the second value is the collection name,
  • remaining values are explicit ID names.

Examples:

• Acme_ProjectTask,Task (single ID named Task)
• Contact,Partners,Jim,Bob (collection Partners with ID names Bob, Jim in output ordering)

Example input

Acme_Project 2
Acme_ProjectTask,Task
Contact,Partners,Jim,Bob
Account 2

Example output (class IDs enabled)

public Id<Acme_ProjectTask> Task { get; } = new("C9E8361B-AC23-4134-B242-C52BDFD56A9F");
public AccountIds Accounts { get; } = new();
public PartnerIds Partners { get; } = new();
public ProjectIds Projects { get; } = new();

public class AccountIds
{
    public Id<Account> A { get; } = new("9B046FDF-94AF-4F4A-85C4-CD7F7F984367");
    public Id<Account> B { get; } = new("4CA2375F-5287-494D-8E30-4DFD1CF2F9E7");
}

public class PartnerIds
{
    public Id<Contact> Bob { get; } = new("C46E99ED-F28E-48FF-9EFB-6B7516CDB99D");
    public Id<Contact> Jim { get; } = new("C7F251B1-6D2A-4A28-BA07-8D3F781A1D6A");
}

public class ProjectIds
{
    public Id<Acme_Project> A { get; } = new("4D67154A-0A50-4C3E-8D55-0FE93BE4F3DC");
    public Id<Acme_Project> B { get; } = new("E804C340-1C9D-41D7-930F-64B730B3373E");
}

Notes matching current logic

• Output entries are ordered by container name; single IDs (no container) are emitted first.
• Names inside each generated collection are ordered alphabetically.
• Entity names with _ use the part after _ when generating default property names (for example Acme_Project -> Project, Projects).