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My goal is to tie as much as possible to Mihai’s example and change the minimum of code. So here is the schema of the example: The UML diagram of the entitiesįirst off, I want to remind you that modelling is just a way to communicate something and it can depend on what you want or need to describe, and your goals. So, in the source folder of the Acceleo project, create a ‘model’ folder.Īnd you can finally download the source of the template here: Doctrine2_UML_Code_Generation (377). We will also need a folder to store the xmi model. I was able to create a template very quickly, and just had difficulties in the tricky context of Doctrine2 mapping rules. You will find everything to start using this great tool. You can find more information in the Help documentation coming with Acceleo (from the Help menu of Eclipse).Īcceleo also comes with very good autocompletion capabilities and documentation (user guide and the language reference). You should now have your first empty Acceleo template open.

Select the type: Class which should be the default selection,.

(I tried some other metamodels but they were not satisfying, maybe I missed something…).

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If this metamodel is not present, install the UML2 plug-in for Eclipse.Browse the metamodel URI and selected.Give a name to the 1st template: generateEntities for example,.In your eclipse client (I use Helios for PHP dev):

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this is required by the code generation way, that implies to have rules.

in the students table, the fields last_name and first_name to respectively lastName and firstName.

Once the application works correctly, rename the following items:.

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Update links and the db configuration in ZendAmf config and the Doctrine 2 bootstrap files to make the application work in your environnement.

Import his database.sql file into your MySQL server,.

Install it (import it in FB4 if you use it),.

Get the project code from Mihai’s post,.

Preparing materials and the environnement Installing the example You will notice that these 2 tools are french… this is not a selection criteria, it is just like that. The most important is the export feature. Of course, you can use your preferred UML tool to follow this serie. And it has a uml/xmi export feature that is mandatory here.

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It is more java oriented but it is a full featured UML diagramming tool, even in its free edition, the best one I found after Visual-Paradigm for UML. Modelio is actually not specialized in php. The best and totally free way I know is Acceleo - an Eclipse plug-in that generates any text from a uml/xmi model, using a template - coupled with a UML diagramming tool - I chose Modelio. My main goal being to test the feasiblity of a full code generation in the Doctrine2 / ZendAmf / Flex configuration, based on a UML diagram.

rewritte the php services (just reuse Mihai’s methods),.

rewrite the client application (just reuse Mihai’s methods),.

replace the code generated by FB4 on the client side.

generate the server-side services (at least a skeleton of methods),.

generate and maintain Doctrine2 entities that I don’t want to care,.

start from a UML diagram, modelling the application - just including Doctrine2 entities and php services,.

So I decided to reproduce Mihai’s example in a different way. I want to: But in a real, big project, managing (I mean, creating and maintaining) more than 40 entities and their relationships would be terrific without a diagram… a UML diagram.

In the Mihai’s example, the context is very simple, 4 entities… ok. The second point that made me uncomfortable, with Doctrine2, this time, is that I missed a way to get the 'big picture' of the entities: a diagram. So, in a project, either I manage this part as a black box (which is probably the easiest way to do, trusting Adobe team in generating a light-weight and performant code), either, I find another code generator. It was too complicated and totally unmanageable for me. It is very cool but I was actually really amazed until I opened the code generated by Flash Builder for services and value objects. It is a long time that I wanted to test this feature. It was clear, easy to reproduce and the data-centric development feature of Flash Builder, the Data/Service tab, is really a great feature to introspect PHP classes and create the service wrappers as well as the AS3 value objects.

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So, I walked trough a great article written by Mihai Corlan, giving an example of how to work with Doctrine2, ZendAmf and Flex, using Flash Builder, of course. I am more and more interested in the integration of PHP and Flex.