Rules Reference

The rules document defines the context for each document to be transformed.

Features

Features are an isolated part of the code generator. When running the code generator features can be enabled and disable.

A feature is declared by name inside the features root tag.

features:
  feature1: {}
  feature2: {}

A feature can contain a prefix target path as also a scope for documents.

features:
  feature1:
    path: {{module.name}}/
    module: {}

Typical features are api, scaffold but also protocols like http, wamp.

A feature can have these properties:

• when: defines feature flag when documents are enabled.
• path: defines a prefix output path
• system, module, interface, struct, enum: defines the scopes

Scopes

A scope defined the context for the template for language for the defined documents. The context defines the available objects available inside the template language. For example a module scope will always have defined features, system and module in the template document.

An interface scope iterates over all interfaces in all modules and has defined features, system and module and the current interface.

• system: once
  • context = { features, system }
• module
  • context = { features, system, module }
• interface
  • context = { features, system, module, interface }
• struct
  • context = { features, system, module, struct }
• enum
  • context = { features, system, module, enum }

Documents

A document defines the source template and the target where to write the document.

The document define the source, target and some additional flags for writing.

• source: source path inside the templates directory.
• target: target template string inside the output directory.
• overwrite: if true, the document will be overwritten when re-generated, which is the default.
• raw: if true, document will be just copied and not treated as template. Raw if off by default.