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Incremental Validation Builder [message #412456]

Thu, 23 August 2007 10:48

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: andrew_steady.hotmail.com

Hi,

We are planning to implement an incremental validation builder based on
the following approach:

1. Maintain a cache (used for other purposes also) containing the full EMF
graph specified by all XML files in the project. Keep this cache up to
date with workspace change listeners.

2. Register a builder which validates (using custom configurable
validation f/w) the objects in the cache based on the premise that by the
time the builder has been invoked the cache will have been updated. This
builder should be called after every save if auto-build is on.

3. If there are validation errors, add markers to the resources. Our
viewers/editors then get notified of the errors and handle accordingly.

This gives us the benefit that if the validation of an object requires
checking against other objects whose resources were not modified (common
use-case for us), those (many) resources do not need to be (re)loaded by
an editor who is not primarily concerned with those objects.

Any problems anyone can see with this approach or better suggestions would
be gratefully recieved!

Cheers,

Andy

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Re: Incremental Validation Builder [message #412464 is a reply to message #412456]

Thu, 23 August 2007 12:20

Ed Merks

Messages: 33142
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Andy,

This sounds like a cool approach and it can all be done as a background
thread to keep the IDE itself snappy.

Andrew Steady wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are planning to implement an incremental validation builder based
> on the following approach:
>
> 1. Maintain a cache (used for other purposes also) containing the full
> EMF graph specified by all XML files in the project. Keep this cache
> up to date with workspace change listeners.
>
> 2. Register a builder which validates (using custom configurable
> validation f/w) the objects in the cache based on the premise that by
> the time the builder has been invoked the cache will have been
> updated. This builder should be called after every save if auto-build
> is on.
>
> 3. If there are validation errors, add markers to the resources. Our
> viewers/editors then get notified of the errors and handle accordingly.
>
> This gives us the benefit that if the validation of an object requires
> checking against other objects whose resources were not modified
> (common use-case for us), those (many) resources do not need to be
> (re)loaded by an editor who is not primarily concerned with those
> objects.
>
> Any problems anyone can see with this approach or better suggestions
> would be gratefully recieved!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy
>

Ed Merks
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Re: Incremental Validation Builder [message #642211 is a reply to message #412464]

Tue, 30 November 2010 12:12

Jean-Francois Brazeau

Messages: 4
Registered: November 2010

Junior Member

A few months ago, I tried to find an incremental validation builder like the one that was mentioned in the previous message, but I didn't find it.

I finally decided to develop it from scratch. Now that it is done, I come back to this forum to give the tool's URL so that it may help somebody :
http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/emf-validation-builde r
https://sourceforge.net/projects/emfvalidation

I hope it will.

Regards,

JFB

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