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Caches in Code Generator [message #1790443]

Mon, 11 June 2018 04:30

Eclipse User

Hi,

I would like to cache certain information which is used in my code generator. The information is derived from my domain model (Ecore model). As calculation is expensive, I would like to cache the results.

The calculation takes several resources into account, so using a org.eclipse.xtext.util.OnChangeEvictingCache seems not to be feasible as the cache is only invalidated, if a resource is changed semantically.

In other words I would like to invalidate the cache for a certain resource every time org.eclipse.xtext.resource.IResourceDescription.Manager.isAffected(Delta, IResourceDescription) returns true.

Is this possible and does a corresponding implementation already exist?

An alternative approach is to invalidate the whole cache before every generator run (build). org.eclipse.xtext.builder.BuilderParticipant.build(IBuildContext, IProgressMonitor) seems a good method to hook in for the UI (Eclipse) scenario.

What do you think about these ideas or do you have any ready-made solution?

Kind regards
Oliver

Re: Caches in Code Generator [message #1790445 is a reply to message #1790443]

Mon, 11 June 2018 04:42

Eclipse User

i dont know of a general exisiting cache for that but to do is at the start of the builderparticipant sounds feasable.
what i dont get is why using a onchangeeviting cache is not usable: it will invalidate too often and not too seldom.

=> would be interesing to understand more about the nature of the thing you want to cache.
e.g. you could use a listener on indexing events to do the invalidation
(org.eclipse.xtext.resource.IResourceDescription.Event.Listener)

Re: Caches in Code Generator [message #1790446 is a reply to message #1790445]

Mon, 11 June 2018 04:58

Eclipse User

I try to describe it in a simplified abstracted example:

I have two entities EntityA and EntityB. EntityA can reference multiple instances of EntityB (one-to-many).

EntityB has attributes. These attributes need to be taken in account whenever code for EntityA is generated.

I have an extension method like getAllAttributes(EntityA entityA) which collects all the attributes of the referenced entities (EntityB).

getAllAttributes(EntityA entityA) is called many times for the same instance of EntityA. Therefore the result should be cached. But invalidating the cache whenever EntityA is changed is not sufficient as the result is affected by changes in the referenced entities (EntityB).

Re: Caches in Code Generator [message #1790455 is a reply to message #1790446]

Mon, 11 June 2018 06:57

Eclipse User

maybe you can have a cache based on index events.
the other question is what really makes the generation slow so that you need to cache at all.

Re: Caches in Code Generator [message #1790669 is a reply to message #1790455]

Thu, 14 June 2018 04:05

Eclipse User

In the end it turned out that the transformation is so fast that no caching is needed. ;-)

But in general hooking into the BuilderParticipant seems to be the right place.

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