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emfatic: nested double-quotes in annotations? [message #1853944]

Mon, 25 July 2022 10:23

Matt Windsor

Messages: 13
Registered: July 2022

Junior Member

Hi all,

I'm trying to write annotations in an Emfatic file of the form

@genmodel(body="...")

so as to inject code into EMF generated operation bodies. However, the operation I'm trying to define is

derived op String[1] toString()

and so I want to be able to use string literals from within the body annotation.

Is there a way to do this? " doesn't work as it terminates the outer annotation literal; \" parses but injects the \ into the operation body and causes a Java syntax error; and HTML/XML escapes such as " also just pass through directly.

For now, I'm just resorting to calling into a helper class that provides the string literals, but this seems iffy.

Thanks,
~ Matt

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Re: emfatic: nested double-quotes in annotations? [message #1853962 is a reply to message #1853944]

Tue, 26 July 2022 05:39

Dimitris Kolovos

Messages: 2165
Registered: July 2009
Location: York, UK

Senior Member

Hi Matt,

Thanks for reporting this. I've pushed a fix and \" can be now used to escape double quotes in annotation detail values. Could you please try the latest interim version of Emfatic and let me know how it goes?

Best,
Dimitris

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