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PROJECT MOVED TO http://qyotta.de/redmine/projects/emfbuildergen
FURTHER DEVELOPMENT WILL BE MADE IN A NEW REPOSITORY:
git://qyotta.de/emfbuildergen.git
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The EMF Builder Generator project helps with generating Java builders for EMF metamodels. The generated Java classes follow a fluent API. Builders are very useful to create test data, but can also be used to construct object graphs in production code.
In a nutshell, instead of writing:
Company company = CompanyFactory.eINSTANCE.createCompany(); company.setName("MyCompany"); Department department = CompanyFactory.eINSTANCE.createDepartment(); department.setNumber(1); Employee alice = CompanyFactory.eINSTANCE.createEmployee(); alice.setName("Alice"); Employee bob = CompanyFactory.eINSTANCE.createEmployee(); bob.setName("Bob"); department.getEmployees().add(alice); department.getEmployees().add(bob); company.getDepartment().add(department);
you now can write:
Company company = newCompanyBuilder() .withName("MyCompany") .withDepartment( newDepartmentBuilder() .withNumber(1) .withEmployees( newEmployeeBuilder() .withName("Alice") ) .withEmployees( newEmployeeBuilder() .withName("Bob")) ) .build();
See more examples in the wiki
This software is pubslished under the Eclipse Public License V1.0. Please note the FAQ for EPL.