Tilda Command Line Utilities

Tilda provides a number of command-line utilities to manage various processes involved when using the framework. Key utilities are available to generate code, migrate database, reverse engineer existing databases and so on.

🎈 NOTE: All those utilities provide command-line help if called without any parameter, and expect the classpath to be set up properly when calling them via a java.exe command line. A typical Windows CMD script can be found in java_run.cmd.

🎈 NOTE: All those utilities (all Tilda code in general) use Log4J2 for logging purpose and employ an Ultra-Logging philosophy to generate richly detailed logs that document every step involved in a given process. Ultra-Logging is implemented in the project to "ensure that bugs or issues that surface can eventually be all traced and debugged post-facto out of log files". That makes the logs (1) very informative about the details of what is going on, but also (2) quite verbose.

🎈 NOTE: All those utilities make use of tongue-in-cheek ASCII art for key messages, including success. If the utility is successful, you'll get a Woohoo!

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              / / /\ \ \  ___     ___   | |__     ___     ___      / \  
              \ \/  \/ / / _ \   / _ \  | '_ \   / _ \   / _ \    /  /  
               \  /\  / | (_) | | (_) | | | | | | (_) | | (_) |  /\_/   
                \/  \/   \___/   \___/  |_| |_|  \___/   \___/   \/     
 The database was automatically migrated to match the Application's data model.    
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The utilities are as follows:

• Gen: Generates all code artifacts from data model definitions in Tilda json files.
• Migrate: Migrates a database to match the model defined in the runtime.
• Docs: Generates browsable HTML docs SQL DDL files from the data models.
• Reverse: Generates Tilda json files from database schemas.
• Load: Load CSV files.
• Import: Load rich json data files matching data model structures.