How to use property CG:File:InvokePostProcessor in Rational Rhapsody

Answer

The InvokePostProcessor property runs a post-processing utility on the code that is generated by Rational Rhapsody.

Example: You could run a beautify program to get a specific coding style.

When this property value is not empty, Rational Rhapsody runs a process by using the specified command.

You can specify the post-processing command on a single file or higher (folder, configuration, component, project, or site). You can specify the following keywords as part of the command:

• $file - The name of the generated file
• $projectPath - The current project root directory
  Rational Rhapsody generates code by using the following sequence of events
• Rational Rhapsody generates code into a temporary file
• If the target file already exists (because of a previous build), Rational Rhapsody compares the temporary file to the target file
• If there are differences, the target file is replaced with the temporary file
• If you specified a post-processor command, Rational Rhapsody runs the post processor on the temporary files. Any messages from the post-processor are displayed in the Output window
• The temporary files are copied to the final location.