Documentation

Installation:

• unzip the file to the eclipse plugin folder
• choose Menu Window > Open Perspective > Other and open the perspective

Howto to use Quigen?

1. Create a velocity template (*.vm). The corresponding velocity context is automatically created.
2. Drop your input-files into the context of your template. They occure in the Additional Variables(Image below)

Currently supported Document Models:
• XML Files
• Java property files
• Java-Files -> from your Workspace
• Simple Textfiles




3. Edit your template in Quigen-Editor



4. Generate the output (Editor's ContextMenu)

Quigen Context

Additional Variables:

All files which are dragged into the context occur with their variable representation.

Internal Variables:

Several Helpers come with the initial Velocity-Context.

JavaClass	ContextVarName	Short Description
FileUtil	Files	File-Helper
IteratorUtil	Iterator	Iterator-Support
JavaUtil	Java	Java Codegeneration Support
ListUtil	Lists	List-Helper
LogUtil	Log	Logging
MathUtil	Math	Math-Helper
NumberUtil	Number	Number-Handling
RenderUtil	Render	Renderer from VelocityTools
RegexUtil	Regex	Regular expressions
StringUtil	Strings	String support
DateUtil	Dates	Dateformating
VelocityUtil	Velocity	VelocityEngine access
XMLUtil	XML	XML read/write
XPathUtil	XPath	XML XPath Support
JavaUtil	Java	Code Generation Support for Java
JXPathUtil	JXPath	XPath for JavaObjectModels and Maps
EclipseUtil	Ecl	Access to the Eclipse API

Temporary Variables:

Shows the variables which are written during the execution of the template bound to the current selected context. This feature enables simple template debugging.