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GMF Code Generation customization [message #1690626]

Mon, 30 March 2015 08:47

Balaji Varaprasad

Messages: 1
Registered: March 2015

Junior Member

I am generating GMF code using by my own xsd, GMF generated /diagram/edit/parts package and other packages. now i want to do common customization for all classes which extends ConnectionNodeEditPart class which exist in /diagram/edit/parts package. GMF generated a method in the sub classes of ConnectionNodeEditPart who's signature is

protected void "addChildVisual(EditPart childEditPart, int index)" and method content as below.

if (addFixedChild(childEditPart)) {
return;
}
super.addChildVisual(childEditPart, index);
Now i want to customize all addChildVisual methods as follows.

if (addFixedChild(childEditPart)) {
return;
}
super.addChildVisual(childEditPart, -1);
This is just changing/replacing index to -1

There are 1000 class like this, need to modify each time when i am migrating from one eclipse version to next eclipse version. This is a sample/simple change i am discussing. There are other changes in which few methods content was added/changes and few new methods were added to GMF generated code.

When ever we migrate from one eclipse version to next version this tedious code customization part was troubling a lot.

Is there any way to reuse the already customized code with the newer version of eclipse/newer version of GMF. I can group my customizations as say suppose 15 modifications but each change has to do for 1000 number of java classes(same change). Is there any way to customize code generation or reuse already customized GMF code with newer version of eclipse/GMF??

Kindly help to solve this issue.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: GMF Code Generation customization [message #1690644 is a reply to message #1690626]

Mon, 30 March 2015 11:25

Aurelien Pupier

Messages: 633
Registered: July 2009
Location: Grenoble, FRANCE

Senior Member

Hi,

you can modify Templates used for generation You can have a look to http://community.bonitasoft.com/blog/customize-your-gmf-editor-customizing-templates
Please note that with the latest version I recommened to use Xtend templates instead of XPand ones (both are still provided)

Regards,

Aurélien Pupier - Bonitasoft S.A.
My company Eclipse-related blog

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