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Redirect Generator Output into another Workspace Project [message #1700387]

Thu, 02 July 2015 10:10

Johannes Wachter

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Registered: June 2013

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Hi,

I currently have a use case where I would like to set the Output of a generator in the IDE scenario not to a folder in the same project but have all generated files be created in another project in the same workspace.

After looking a bit into the documentation and code I couldn't yet figure out a clean way to achieve that.

The only way it currently works in a test project is using the "virtual" folder feature of Eclipse to create a "generated" folder in each project that redirects to another project.

Though this is no solution in my real project as the target projects are plain Maven projects.

Is there any API in XText/Eclipse I overlooked?

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Re: Redirect Generator Output into another Workspace Project [message #1700388 is a reply to message #1700387]

Thu, 02 July 2015 10:16

Christian Dietrich

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Registered: July 2009

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IOutputConfigurationProvider?

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Re: Redirect Generator Output into another Workspace Project [message #1700393 is a reply to message #1700387]

Thu, 02 July 2015 11:24

Karsten Thoms

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Registered: July 2009
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The output configuration is fine when the relative path of the project is known. But when the project location must be evaluated by the project's name, there is some more work to do.

You will need an extension of OutputConfiguration that has an addition property for the project name. Further, you'll need an extension of EclipseOutputConfigurationProvider and EclipseResourceFileSystemAccess2 that consider this property.

If the generator is also to be used outside of the IDE, then there is additional work to do to simulate the project-to-path mapping.

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