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Dynamic Elements of Language [message #1805166]

Tue, 09 April 2019 06:28

Santhiveeran S

Messages: 7
Registered: November 2018

Junior Member

Hi All,
Thanks for your guidance and support.

I want to know one of the feature availability in Xtext. Normally we have some language fundamentals which we used to write the program in the language.

For example,

Write "Hello world"

As per the language, this will get write in the output console as "Hello world".

In my case user also can create their own syntax of commands,

For example WriteString "I am new one"
For this, user will create a text file and write the name,format and description

like newcmd name="writestring" format="%s" desc="Print only String"

This can be changed, created at run time, based on the text file changes, it needs to refreshed automatically.

I need the help on the below,

1. Is it possible to import new grammar into already running eclipse?
2. Is it EMF model or some other concept help me to achieve this?

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Re: Dynamic Elements of Language [message #1805188 is a reply to message #1805166]

Tue, 09 April 2019 14:25

Ed Willink

Messages: 7655
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi

In principle Eclipse added support for dynamic installs without restarting nearly 10 years ago, but I'm not sure that the facility is widely used and as a result may no longer work; certainly Acceleo has a broken functionality that appears to relate to this.

Even if it works, regenerating your Xtext plugins and installing them on the fly will take quite a few seconds.

But is it what you really want? Xtext doesn't execute Write "Hello world"; Xtext just parses it, then a generator converts it to an executable form or an interpreter executes it directly.

If your interpreter reads the *.xtext model, your interpreter may be able to pick up the new commands, possibly after intercepting the Token stream.

The add-on text file presumably has its own invariant meta-grammar, so perhaps your interpreter/token processing only needs to process the meta-grammar.

Regards

Ed Willink

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Re: Dynamic Elements of Language [message #1805191 is a reply to message #1805188]

Tue, 09 April 2019 15:48

Christian Dietrich

Messages: 14665
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

can the params be IDs too or strings, ints etc only.
if yes you could have two dsl (parts), one that declares things,
one that uses them.
if you know where params are and where a "call" is you could have a

callee=[Declaration] params+=Parameters*

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