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Saving a file in the OCLinEcore Editor deletes its content [message #1821578]

Sat, 15 February 2020 22:11

Marc Walters

Messages: 11
Registered: November 2019

Junior Member

Hello everyone,

I am currently running Eclipse 2019-12 with OCL Classic SDK (5.10.1.v20191209-1145) and OCL Examples and Editors SDK (6.10.0.v20191209-1145).

During my attempt to follow the OCLinEcore Tutorial, I ran into the following issue: Whenever I use the OCLinEcore Editor to edit an .ecore file, saving the file (even if it is still the version that I initially opened) removes most of the content from it. This is the only part that remains:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xmi:XMI xmi:version="2.0" xmlns:xmi="http://www.omg.org/XMI"/>

Is anyone able to reproduce this issue? Or is there maybe a plugin whose absence could lead to such a behavior?

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Re: Saving a file in the OCLinEcore Editor deletes its content [message #1821579 is a reply to message #1821578]

Sun, 16 February 2020 06:02

Ed Willink

Messages: 6614
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi

This seems very unlikely. Possible explanations are that you are using the wrong editor or that you have a serious content error. Wrong error is most likely since the 'correct' editor is auto-chosen and recent changes have endeavored to prioritize the Sample Ecore Model Editor. You can force the editor using Open With....

If that doesn't solve it for you, please post the file that you tried to edit, the command sequence that you used, and a screen shot (including the editor tab) just before the failing Ctrl-S.

If it does solve it, please provide more details of your misadventure so that the tutorial can be improved.

Regards

Ed Willink

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Re: Saving a file in the OCLinEcore Editor deletes its content [message #1821582 is a reply to message #1821579]

Sun, 16 February 2020 09:57

Marc Walters

Messages: 11
Registered: November 2019

Junior Member

Hi,

I was unfortunately not able to solve the issue yet. Here are the steps to reproduce the error on my platform:

Switch to a clean, new Eclipse workspace.
Add an Example > OCL (Object Constraint Language) Plug-ins > ECLinEcore Tutorial project to this workspace (org.eclipse.ocl.examples.project.oclinecoretutorial).
Right click the Tutorial.ecore file to Open With > OCLinEcore Editor.
Add a space at a random line and delete it again to mark the view as dirty (see the attached screenshot for an overview of the Eclipse window in this state). Ctrl+S to save the file.

Open the Tutorial.ecore file using the Generic Text Editor. These are the contents of the file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xmi:XMI xmi:version="2.0" xmlns:xmi="http://www.omg.org/XMI"/>

Note that I get the same behavior if I

create and try to edit an OCLinEcore Ecore File in another project or
if the *.ecore file is not opened in the Ecore Editor provided by EMF in the meantime.