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XMI to Xtext DSL [message #1807846]

Tue, 11 June 2019 04:01

Marshall Charron

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Registered: August 2018

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Hi,

I have an XMI file derived from a DSL metamodel.

I would like to convert it back to the DSL, i.e myfile.mydsl.

Is this possible using Eclipse, without doing this programmatically ?

[Updated on: Tue, 11 June 2019 04:03]

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Re: XMI to Xtext DSL [message #1807850 is a reply to message #1807846]

Tue, 11 June 2019 06:06

Christian Dietrich

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Registered: July 2009

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hi, i am not aware of any non programmatic option for this

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Re: XMI to Xtext DSL [message #1807851 is a reply to message #1807850]

Tue, 11 June 2019 06:10

Marshall Charron

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I mean how can I transform a myfile.xmi to myfile.mydsl in Eclipse ?

Thanks

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Re: XMI to Xtext DSL [message #1807852 is a reply to message #1807851]

Tue, 11 June 2019 06:20

Christian Dietrich

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Registered: July 2009

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do it programmatically. or dont create an xmi in the first place

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Re: XMI to Xtext DSL [message #1807857 is a reply to message #1807852]

Tue, 11 June 2019 07:41

Ed Willink

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Registered: July 2009

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Hi

You haven't told us what the relationship is between the DSL and the XMI.

If you have the 'trivial' relationship whereby Xtext treats the DSL source text and its underlying parsed EMF model as equivalent, then you should be able to open the XMI with your DSL editor see the serialized text and copy/save it as text.

If you have a non-trivial relationship, then the programmer of your forward conversion from DSL to XMI may also program the reverse conversion from XMI to DSL so that you can open in your DSL editor as above. (This works for the OCL, QVTc, QVTi, QVTr editors.)

Regards

Ed Willink

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Re: XMI to Xtext DSL [message #1807868 is a reply to message #1807857]

Tue, 11 June 2019 08:10

Tamas Miklossy

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Registered: February 2016

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You may get some inspiration from the following blog post: https://blogs.itemis.com/en/combining-emf-models-with-xtext-dsls

It contains (among others) an example implementation for:
Quote:

An additional feature could be to add Xtext serialization support to EMF models; when the user edits an EMF element and saves the *.emfstatemachine file, we want that the corresponding *.statemachine Xtext DSL file is automatically generated.

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