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Refreshing XText Eclipse Application without relaunching? [message #1711588]

Sat, 17 October 2015 19:48

Larry LeBron

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Registered: October 2015

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I'm learning XText, and am wondering about the best workflow for language development.

Right now, whenever I change my language grammar, I:

Update my grammar
Generate XText Artifacts
Run As -> Eclipse Application

Instead of relaunching every time, is it possible to refresh the Eclipse Application with the updated XText artifacts?

Any other suggestions on improved workflow for DSL iteration? Thanks!

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Re: Refreshing XText Eclipse Application without relaunching? [message #1711591 is a reply to message #1711588]

Sat, 17 October 2015 20:23

Christian Dietrich

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Registered: July 2009

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No there is no other ways. maybe using a unit test would make the roundtrip faster

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Re: Refreshing XText Eclipse Application without relaunching? [message #1711616 is a reply to message #1711591]

Sun, 18 October 2015 12:17

Stefan Oehme

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Registered: April 2010
Location: Kiel

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Yes, writing unit tests for your parser is the fastest way to iterate in the beginning.

It also leaves you with lots of valuable unit tests so you don't break stuff later on =)

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Re: Refreshing XText Eclipse Application without relaunching? [message #1711684 is a reply to message #1711588]

Mon, 19 October 2015 09:22

Karsten Thoms

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Registered: July 2009
Location: Dortmund, Germany

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To learn about writing Xtext unit tests, install the Xtext Domainmodel example (File/New/Example/Domainmodel) and look into the Test plugin. It contains some useful code for you to start.

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