I have a few fixes for DBXTalk: the Magritte descriptions generation (I
switched Array output code-generation to the {...} format instead of #( ...) which was not allowing #conditions: to be properly formatted, which may be a problem for other smalltalk environments), and other trivial fixes.
Excellent!!! :) Thanks. Can you send us the changes or directly commit?
Band-aide approach... DBXMagritteWriterVisitor>>writeDescription: aMADescription onClass: aClass | properties descriptionMethod classes | properties := '; ' join: (aMADescription properties associations collect: [ :assoc | '{1}: {2}' format: {(assoc key). "assoc value printString" ((assoc value isKindOf: Array) ifTrue: ['{', ('. ' join: assoc value ), '}' ] ifFalse: [ assoc value printString ])} ]). ... - <clipped> Mine is a horrible solution. Given that there are blocks in the conditions loops, the traditional array notation, #( ... ), will not work anyway, so the curly-brace approach is fine. I played around with #respondsTo: and tried to generalize, but hit problems because the value is often a symbol or string. so in the end, to get my classes generated, I just did the above quick-n-dirty patch. The only other changes I have gone ahead and made were to make certain that more methods of DBXEntity return the newly created attribute/entity, so that I could say something like the following: (e hasOne: #DpAddress as: #mailingAddress) label: 'Mailing Address'; priority: 400. So all of the #hasOne:as:, #hasMany:as:, etc. .... Oops... looks like late last night, when I was updating packages to see if i was missing anything, I lost my changes to those methods! There were only 4 or 5 such changes, and they were trivial. Cheers. I like the DBXTalk approach. And Magritte too. In the two major projects I worked on over the years, and even on a couple of small side projects, I/we ended up using meta-language tools to add runtime behavior; and the starting code for new objects, at least in the one big project, was generated from a short-hand table of the meta-language specs. Very powerful. And lazy people like me are drawn to such things. Nice work guys! Cam