Configuration Section

Inside the Configuration object, you define key/value pairs related to code generation.

Here is an example:

{
    "Configuration": {
        "AutogenSuffix": ".generated",
        "Header": "(c) 2020 Dash",
        "Templates": [
            {
                "Template": "./MyTemplate/EfContext",
                "Output": "./Ef",
            },
            {
                "Template": "./MyTemplates/Poco",
                "Output": "./Poco"
            }
        ]
    }
}

AutogenSuffix

The value that will be appended after the filename, and prepended before the extension to indicate that the file was auto-generated.

data type: string

default: .generated

Header

The header that will be injected as comments in every generated file.

data type: string

default:

<auto-generated>This code was generated by dotnet dash CLI. Manual changes to this file will be overwritten if the code is regenerated.</auto-generated>

Pluralize

Pluralize generated class property names. This only applies when a class property is a collection.

data type: boolean

default:

true

!! note

Only English pluralization is supported

Templates

Specify the templates that will be used for code generation.

data type: Array of Template objects

default:

[
    {
        "Template": "dash://efpoco",
        "Output": ".",
    },
    {
        "Template": "dash://efcontext",
        "Output": "."
    }
]

Template Object

Each Template object is used to reference a single Built-in Template or Custom Template.

Dash will use the referenced templates to generate code.

{
    "Template": "dash://efpoco",
    "Output": "./Poco",
    "OneClassPerFile": false
}

Template

The name of the template.

data type: uri

default: No default value

Output

The absolute output file location, or relative to the working directory.

data type: uri

default: .

OneClassPerFile

Specifies whether each entity should be persisted in its own file.

data type: boolean

default: false

URI

To reference Templates (and other types of Resources), you provide a value conform to the Uniform Resource Identifier syntax.

Dash supports the following URI schemes:

Scheme	Read	Write	Description
dash	Yes	No	Access embedded Dash resources: Built-in Templates
file	Yes	Yes	Access local computer resources
http(s)	Yes	No	Access external resources (authentication not (yet) supported)