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The implementation borrows ideas from the Android SDK which generates some Java sources based on resource descriptions in XML files. It leverages Maven's resource filtering system to resolve metadata references in non-Java files.
The input metadata reference lists have a simple format and should be placed in api/src/main/distro/metadata. For example the contents of a simple concepts.xml might look like:
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<items><refs> <item<ref key="YES" uuid="1065AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" /> <item<ref key="NO" uuid="1066AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" /> </items>refs> |
From that we generate a Java source file of constants, e.g.
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