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xText ParallelBuilderParticipant issue [message #1832274]

Tue, 15 September 2020 06:49

Shashi Mising name

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Hi,

I have grammar like below,

Component:
test_interfaces
'{'
Interfaces+=ProvidedInterface+
'}'
template' templates+=[Template|ID]*

Template:
test_interfaces
'{'
Interfaces+=ProvidedInterface+
'}'

When i try to collect the template interfaces from a component, getting interface list of template as empty even though interfaces for template is defined in grammar, this behavior is sporadic [sometime returns the data sometimes not]

for(template : comp.templates){
val intFaces +=template.getInterfaces ---[here it returns an empty]
}

This behavior is observed at generator phase, at validation phase getting right data, it is working fine.

Form configuration point of view, using ParallelBuilderParticipant and generator called through this participant.

what might be the actual issue for this behavior, can anyone help on this.

Thank you

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Re: xText ParallelBuilderParticipant issue [message #1832277 is a reply to message #1832274]

Tue, 15 September 2020 07:04

Christian Dietrich

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did you implement beforeGenerate and resolve the templates there?

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Re: xText ParallelBuilderParticipant issue [message #1832279 is a reply to message #1832277]

Tue, 15 September 2020 07:45

Shashi Mising name

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Hello Christen,

Thank you very much for your input, is it mandatory to implement beforeGenerate method and resolve every cross references of that resource.

if i add below check in beforeGenerate, would it be fine?

if(template.eIsProxy){
EcoreUtil2.resolve(template, resource)
}

Thank you

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Re: xText ParallelBuilderParticipant issue [message #1832280 is a reply to message #1832279]

Tue, 15 September 2020 08:03

Shashi Mising name

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Hello Christen,

In the below method of ParallelBuilderParticipant, the template is not initialized.

once resource is initialized- Resource resource = context.resource;

no templates found in the resource content,

/**
* @since 2.9
*/
protected void handleChangedContents(ParallelBuildContext context, IFileSystemAccess2 access)
throws CoreException {
Resource resource = context.resource;
saveResourceStorage(resource, access);
if (shouldGenerate(resource, context)) {
getGenerator2().doGenerate(resource, access, context.getGeneratorContext());
}
}

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Re: xText ParallelBuilderParticipant issue [message #1832282 is a reply to message #1832280]

Tue, 15 September 2020 09:00

Christian Dietrich

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the parallel gen should call before generated
on single thread

so if it is resolved there it should be available.

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Re: xText ParallelBuilderParticipant issue [message #1832286 is a reply to message #1832282]

Tue, 15 September 2020 10:05

Shashi Mising name

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Hello Christen,

Thank you,

What does it mean, yes getting the right template instances at beforeGenerate method, but in doGenerate and afterGenerate not getting the expected template objects.

do i need to configure anything here? what would be the reason for not getting the right instance list in doGenerate and afterGenerate.

Thanks

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Re: xText ParallelBuilderParticipant issue [message #1832288 is a reply to message #1832286]

Tue, 15 September 2020 11:11

Christian Dietrich

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i still dont understand your observations
i just point out:

do no resolve the proxies on multile threads

so please again:

you can see the templates in before generate but cant in doGenerate?

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Re: xText ParallelBuilderParticipant issue [message #1832309 is a reply to message #1832288]

Wed, 16 September 2020 05:11

Shashi Mising name

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Hello Christen,

Yes you are right, template are visible in beforeGenerate but not in doGenerate.

As you said, do no resolve the proxies on multile threads, What does it mean ?

inside doGenerate we are reading the content of the resource and passing to the different our own generator classes to generate different files.

for Ex:

doGenerate(Resource resource){

val model = resource.contents.head

for(component : model.components){
callGenerator1(component)
callGenerator2(component)
callGenerator3(component)
}
}

Thanks

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Re: xText ParallelBuilderParticipant issue [message #1832310 is a reply to message #1832309]

Wed, 16 September 2020 05:32

Christian Dietrich

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Again. You resolve the stuff in before generate and in do generate is gone?
Can you please provide a minimal example of what you do that reproduces the problem

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Re: xText ParallelBuilderParticipant issue [message #1832311 is a reply to message #1832310]

Wed, 16 September 2020 06:17

Shashi Mising name

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Hello Christen,

Thanks for kind response.

I am not resolving anything in beforeGenerator, but data is coming as expected.

issue is in doGenerate method. this might be due to my implementation in doGenerate method.

i am using below methods to resolve the index objects.

Reading the index using the method,

def getResolvedObjects(EObject context) {
val resolvedList = newArraylist
val contextResource = context.eResource
val resourceDescriptions = getResourceDescriptions(contextResource)
val contextRD = resourceDescriptions.getResourceDescription(contextResource.URI)
val container containerManager.getContainer(contextRD, resourceDescriptions)

val exportedObjects = container.getExportedObjectsByType(eClass)

for(expObj : exportedObjects){
// calling below resolve method.
val obj = resolve(context, expObj)
resolvedList .add(obj)
}
}

def <T> T resolve(EObject context, IEObjectDescription element) {
if (element === null)
return null
return EcoreUtil.resolve(element.EObjectOrProxy, context) as T
}

the above methods are calling inside the below our own generators.

callGenerator1(component)
callGenerator2(component)
callGenerator3(component)

i do not have small test project to share.

as you said, i think the issue might be due to the resolve method which is called from different instances same time while processing the resource inside doGenerate method.

Thank you again.

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Re: xText ParallelBuilderParticipant issue [message #1832314 is a reply to message #1832311]

Wed, 16 September 2020 06:37

Christian Dietrich

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as is said: you should do the complete code that does resolving to the beforeGenerate.
and yes you might call rsolves into same code when doing on multipiple threads

depending on what you do it might be enhought to use 1 worker thread for generation and the main thread for work
to circumvent the problem while keeping the performance gains

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Re: xText ParallelBuilderParticipant issue [message #1832320 is a reply to message #1832314]

Wed, 16 September 2020 09:50

Shashi Mising name

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Hello Christen,

Thank you for your input.

As we use parallel builder participant, generation happens in multiple threads.
resolve used at many places, is there any possibility to execute generation sequentially one after another?

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