Adrian Crum wrote
You can get the file's location - look at Entity Reference in Web Tools.
-Adrian
Christopher Snow wrote:
> Is it possible to get the name of the component that an entity belongs
> too? E.g. something like:
>
> Delegator delegator = (Delegator) request.getAttribute("delegator");
> ModelReader reader = delegator.getModelReader();
> ModelEntity entity = reader.getModelEntity("myEntity");
> // return the name of the component that an entity belongs to
> String entityComponent = entity.getComponentName();
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Chris
>
Somewhat from memory; I think the delegator has a getModelReader that has the resources that were used to load the entities. The resource handler would have the file that was used to load the entities (if it was a file) -- what I mean here is that Ofbiz typically uses an xml representation of the model defined in each component; but I would suggest it does not have to be this way. The model could be built dynamically -- what comes to mind is the modeling of Screen/Form that is built for a survey where the model is assembled in memory based on database artifacts to build up the form.
Perhaps your use case could rely on something in the model entity definition itself such as the package-name? This is likely spotty as well; but I know we use this in-house when doing code generation on the entity model.
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