VALJOGen - Annotation Processor

This is the main project module that contains the annotation processor code, unit-tests and stubbed integration tests. More non-stubbed integration tests are available in the seperate integration test project.

Minimum setup for development:

Install JDK 1.8+
Install Maven 3.2.0+

Execute a "mvn package" on command line to compile project and run tests.

Optional setup for eclipse

Install Eclipse Luna 4.4+
Install Eclipse plugin m2e (from eclipses build-in “Luna” update site)
Select Import - Maven - Existing Maven Projects and select root folder of all projects

Module content

The processor package contains the annotation processor (generator).
The model package contains a intermediate representation that is inspected when generating output.
- Top-level model is Clazz which represents a Java class.
- Configuration of generated output is handled by the Configuration class which bases its configuration on class or package level annotations. These
  can be overruled by externally configured annotation processor key/values. Names of keys, which strictly correspond to annotation method names, are
  defined by ConfigurationOptionKeys.
A templates folder which contains StringTemplate (v4) template group files. These are responsible for generating the actual output.

Logging

Individual log files for all tests are put into target/logs directory. For debugging you may want to increase the logging level in src/test/resources/valjogen.properties

Useful links

com.google.testing.compile library - For Testing of annotations processors and access to javax.lang.model.*
StringTemplate - For maintaining template group files.
Debugging Annotation Processors if debuging junit tests is not enough