About

Script for extracting SAPUI5 JS-sources from the jar files delivered with Eclipse plugins.

Preparation

Before you can use this script you first have to copy all UI5 plugin jars from the Eclipse plugins directory into another directory. Then you have to extract the content of this jar files with a ZIP tool (you can use any tools that can extract zip files cause jar files are zip files)

• You need to have node.js installed

If you plan to make changes to the script you additionally have to install the following components (either globally or locally).

• You need to have tsc, the typescript compiler installed
• You need to have typings, the typescript definition manager

Getting started

• Clone the repository from github
• cd into that directory
• run npm install

If you plan to make changes to the script do the following

• run typings install

Running the script

To run the script

• cd into the directory where the script is located
• run node create_js_resources.js <sourceDir> <targetDir>
  • <sourceDir> is the directory to which you extracted the jar files
  • <targetDir> is the directory to which the js files should be copied. The directory must not exist. The script creates it.

After a few minutes the js files are available in the <targetDir>/resources directory. You can reference this directory in your sapui5 bootstrap code.

Changing the script

To change the script you should NOT edit the js file but the ts file.

• run tsc -w *.ts to start the watch task of tsc. This task compiles a new js file from the ts file every time the latter file is changed.
• Make changes to the ts file
• run node with the js file

Finding jar files in Eclipse

To find the jar files in eclipse cd into the eclipse/plugins directory and enter the following command

find . -regex "^.*com.sap.*1\.36.*\.jar"`

Replace 1.\36 with the release that is installed in your Eclipse