Imports being removed when adding fields to file.

[Destro190]

When adding a new field through the Roo shell's field command I am losing some of my custom imports that my addon adds to the file.

Anybody have any ideas on why it is doing this?

[krimple]

Destro190,

Can you give us an idea of what you are trying to achieve with the add-on? Are you writing to an ITD? Your own ITD or one generated by another add-on?

If you are writing to another ITD, I'm guessing you may not want to since the other add-on owns it. I assume you subscribed your add-on to changes based on the metadata information for your type of object? Check out the @RooJavaBean roo built-in add-on (roo-javabean) for details on how that works.

Ken

[bvesco]

If we have a class like:

package com.mypackage;

import com.mypackage.MyClass.MyBean;

@Input(MyBean.class)
public class MyClass
{
    public static class MyBean{}
}

Then, running something like:

field boolean --fieldName foo --class com.mypackage.MyClass

will remove the import of MyBean and it will no longer compile because the annotation needs the import to be able to see MyBean.

[krimple]

How are you setting up your imports, using the ClassOrInterfaceTypeDetailsBuilder on the existing type?

I see a clear() method on that class's init() method if you use it on an existing type. Then it re-adds existing imports that are "registered."

Do you use the import registration feature or are you using a text template and writing each file line?