greenDAO schema generation with relative output path; failing with i/o not found

android, greendao

Solution

The `outDir` parameter is expected to be relative to the project directory.

For example, suppose your `MyDaoGenerator` class is in `module1` under `projectA` and you want to generate the DAO classes into a separate `module2` of the same project ...

projectA
    module1/
        src/main/java/com.my.package/MyDaoGenerator.java
    module2/
        src/main/java/      <-- target directory

... the `outDir` parameter would be `module2/src/main/java`.

Problem

Following along with this tutorial, I've been able to create a working app module that compiles and runs, but fails if I pass a relative path to the generateAll method. It works fine if I specify an absolute path. My android studio project is composed of a few modules, structured like project_root, with sub directories for each of it's modules /daogenerator /app Each has it's own src directories, and I'm calling the generateAll like: ``` new DaoGenerator().generateAll(schema, "../app/src"); ``` which results in an io error, indicating that the directory doesn't exist. I've modified the path to many reasonable alternatives, and confirmed that the paths exist on disk, but still getting the error. The absolute path works fine, so I'm trying to understand what I'm missing to get it working with a relative path. Thanks.

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