LLBLGen 2.6 7/3/09 designer

I am attempting to use HasEntityField in my template, as follows:

<[If Not HasEntityField "TestThisFieldIsntPresent" ]>
            myStuff
<[EndIf]>

This is within a <[ Foreach Entity ]> clause, so I assume this should emit "myStuff" into the entities, but it does not.

Must I be within a different clause?

Please attach the relevant template file to see the context of these lines.

attached to first post.

<[If Not HasEntityField "TestThisFieldIsntPresent" ]> myStuff <[EndIf]>

This is within a <[ Foreach Entity ]> clause, so I assume this should emit "myStuff" into the entities, but it does not.

This should emit myStuff for each entity which has a field called "TestThisFieldIsntPresent"

And this should be emitted within the file being generated by this template.

Truly? Even with the 'Not' after the If? The truth is, whether I use the "If Not" or "If", my code does not get emitted.

Sorry I didn't notice the NOT. So it shouild emit this for all entities if they don't have such field.

So everything else inside the Foreach Entity was emitted except this block, right?

that is correct

I can't find HasEntityField in your template attached to the first post?

Anyway, check if the casing is off, it's a case sensitive compare.

My apologies, I had removed the If statement at the of time of attachment, I have reattached the template (with the HasEntityField) to the first post. Please try it out.

I think I found it. If you don't specify 'IncludeInherited' it will perform the xor for not twice, so effectively remove the not, and execute the if-body (see TDLInterpreter, line 3581 and 3603). Fixing...

(edit) please use the attached dll. If this doesn't fix your problem, please let me know.

Thanks for the update. It now emits code, but if I use

<[If Not HasEntityField IncludeInherited "Transaction"]>
            [Exclude]
            public ITransaction Transaction;
    <[EndIf]>

it emits unusable code:

HasEntityFieldIncludeInherited "Transaction"]>

Also, it looks like HasEntityField doesn't check Relationship fields, or does it? Basically, what I'm looking to do is: unless my Entity has a Relationship field 'Transaction', emit the above code (1st code block).

How can I make this happen?

 <[If Not HasEntityField "Transaction" IncludeInherited ]>

is the right syntax.

About the relation field, that's not checked.

TDL doesn't have that statement. (If HasEntityField was also added at request, we don't use it ourselves). The main thing is: TDL isn't a full purpose template language, it is sufficient for us to write our own templates without template errors, however to do other things outside that scope, it's insufficient. I think you're better suited with an .lpt template here, as that allows you to do whatever you want. You can include .lpt templates inside TDL templates, so for the parts where you need .lpt code, you can include an lpt template and access the current state of the TDL interpreter.