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Appendix E - Options Files
This appendix discusses options files. You can use options files to specify the options
that you want the Generator utility, the Configure utility, and the StaticBinder utility to use.
E.1 Options files: The big picture
pureQuery provides multiple utilities. All of these utilities allow you to specify options on
the command line. For the Generator utility, the Configure utility, and the StaticBinder
utility, you can also specify the pureQueryXml files or interfaces that you want the utility to
process, along with the options that you want the utility to use, in a type of file that is known
as an options file.
pureQuery allows two types of options files: genProps, which is used for the Configure
utility (described in Section 9.6) and the Generator utility (described in Section 6.3), and
bindProps, which is used for the StaticBinder utility (described in Chapter 10). The
contents of the two types of options files are mostly the same, but they have a few
differences. The convention is to use .genProps as the file extension for genProps files,
and .bindProps as the file extension for bindProps files.
Options files make it easy to run a utility one time, while specifying many interfaces or
pureQueryXml files, each processed using distinct options. Additionally, if you want IBM
Optim Development Studio to run the utility for you, the only way you can specify options is
by using options files.
The IBM Optim pureQuery Runtime documentation for the utilities provides details about
using options files from the command line. The IBM Optim Development Studio
documentation provides details about using genProps and bindProps files in the tool.
E.2 Content of options files
An options file is a text file that lists interfaces and pureQueryXml files to be processed,
and the options to apply to each interface or file. Each interface and pureQueryXml file
must be listed on a separate line in the options file, followed by an equal sign (=), and then
any options that pureQuery should use when it processes that item. The extensions of
pureQueryXml files must be either .pdqxml or .xml.