Eclipse Community Forums: TMF (Xtext)

Home » Modeling » TMF (Xtext) » global validation (how to validate)

Wed, 27 January 2016 07:34

Eclipse User

I have a grammar that allows elements to reference other elements using the linking capabilities of Xtext. I want to validate my model to check that each of the referred-to elements is only referred-to once.

I am fairly new to Xtext and cannot see how to achieve this aim, if I use the typical Custom validator for my model, as even if I was to do something like

def checkOneReferrer(ReferredToType t){}

because the links are all on there ReferringType

and I cannot do something like

def checkUnique(ModelRoot t) {}

and navigate the whole model, as I believe that I can only return one error from this function.

It seems that I need to use a higher level API? Any guidance on this would be appreciated.

Re: global validation [message #1721453 is a reply to message #1721426]

Wed, 27 January 2016 10:02

Eclipse User

Actually you can produce multiple errors from a check for type ModelRoot. Collect all references to an refered-to element and produce an error for each if you find more than once. Basically you could create a multimap while traversing the model instance.

Things become more complicated when the referred-to elements are split over several resources, which I guess is what you have. In this case you have to know from a referred-to element if there is only one referrer. Since there is only a unidirectional dependency from referrer to referred-to, you will have to somehow collect the cross-references.

I could imagine that you would be able to install an org.eclipse.emf.ecore.util.ECrossReferenceAdapter on a referred-to element during the linking phase when a referrer to its referred-to is linked. This might be done by subclassing the DefaultLinkingService

Validation happens after linking. Thus your validation could get the ECrossReferenceAdapter from the referred-to element and check if there are more than one cross references.

Previous Topic:	Splitting a model into several files? Scoping?
Next Topic:	Xtext Web - Code generation

Goto Forum:

-=] Back to Top [=-

Current Time: Sun Jul 13 00:16:05 EDT 2025

.:: Contact :: Home ::.

Breadcrumbs

Sign up to our Newsletter