Yeoman Generator: CLI + File instead of Request
I am using several Yeoman generators that prompt me for user input. I would rather put my inputs in a JSON file. I see what is created after this yo-rc.json
, but I would like to use it (or a file like it) as an input to Yeoman.
Example using JHipster :
Current behavior
$ yo jhipster
Welcome to the JHipster Generator v2.16.1
? (1/15) What is the base name of your application? (jhipster) helpme
? (2/15) What is your default Java package name? com.mycompany.helpme
...
# Yeoman Generator creates project via user inputs
Desired behavior
$ cat my-custom.json
{
"generator-jhipster": {
"baseName": "helpme",
"packageName": "com.mycompany.helpme",
...
$ yo jhipster --file my-custom.json
...
# Yeoman Generator creates project via input file
It looks like I will be able to use the Yeoman Storage API , but I personally have not succeeded and I cannot find similar examples.
[Edit] Next steps
Next I wanted to create entities, unprompted, with complex per relationships ( https://jhipster.github.io/managing_relationships.html ). I found this a two step process:
- Create a
./.jhipster/MyEntity.json
-
yo jhipster:entity MyEntity.json
- Profit
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Jhipster is already doing this to see my comment on your question. Below is where jhipster reads .yo-rc.json, if you really want any other name to be able to match as well, you just need to read that file using the api file, but I would suggest you save the json as .yo-rc .json for compatibility
Code from application /index.js
this.baseName = this.config.get('baseName');
this.packageName = this.config.get('packageName');
this.authenticationType = this.config.get('authenticationType');
this.clusteredHttpSession = this.config.get('clusteredHttpSession');
this.searchEngine = this.config.get('searchEngine');
this.websocket = this.config.get('websocket');
this.databaseType = this.config.get('databaseType');
if (this.databaseType == 'mongodb') {
this.devDatabaseType = 'mongodb';
this.prodDatabaseType = 'mongodb';
this.hibernateCache = 'no';
} else if (this.databaseType == 'cassandra') {
this.devDatabaseType = 'cassandra';
this.prodDatabaseType = 'cassandra';
this.hibernateCache = 'no';
} else { // sql
this.devDatabaseType = this.config.get('devDatabaseType');
this.prodDatabaseType = this.config.get('prodDatabaseType');
this.hibernateCache = this.config.get('hibernateCache');
}
this.useCompass = this.config.get('useCompass');
this.javaVersion = this.config.get('javaVersion');
this.buildTool = this.config.get('buildTool');
this.frontendBuilder = this.config.get('frontendBuilder');
this.rememberMeKey = this.config.get('rememberMeKey');
this.enableTranslation = this.config.get('enableTranslation'); // this is enabled by default to avoid conflicts for existing applications
this.packagejs = packagejs;
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