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Tue, 16 February 2010 06:50

Eclipse User

I found xbase in the cvs repository.

I wonder if that is a good example or if it is just
dead code. There is a file called
org.eclipse.xtext.xbase/src/org/eclipse/xtext/xbase/example. xbase_example
which has some errors in the xbase editor.

What's going wrong here?

Michael
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Re: Does xbase work? [message #514820 is a reply to message #514799]

Tue, 16 February 2010 08:12

Eclipse User

Hi Michael,

Xbase is currently under development and subject to frequent changes.
The example file does not reflect the latest version - it is used to
discuss different syntax variants internally and may be not in sync with
the actual code.

Regards,
Sebastian
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Am 16.02.10 17:43, schrieb Michael Scharf:
> I found xbase in the cvs repository.
>
> I wonder if that is a good example or if it is just
> dead code. There is a file called
> org.eclipse.xtext.xbase/src/org/eclipse/xtext/xbase/example. xbase_example
> which has some errors in the xbase editor.
>
> What's going wrong here?
>
> Michael

Re: Does xbase work? [message #514871 is a reply to message #514820]

Tue, 16 February 2010 18:25

Eclipse User

On 2010-02-16 18:44, Sebastian Zarnekow wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Xbase is currently under development and subject to frequent changes.
> The example file does not reflect the latest version - it is used to
> discuss different syntax variants internally and may be not in sync with
> the actual code.

One of the problems we found with xbase.Xpression is:
XFeatureCall returns XExpression :
XPrimaryExpression
({XFeatureCall.target=current} "." name=ID ('('(params+=XExpression (','params+=XExpression )*)?')')?)*
;

if you have
a.b.c.d.e
the expression tree is reversed (you can see this in the outline)
e
d
c
b
a

This makes it quite hard to write a scope provider.

Maybe there is a trick to use this tree to provide
a scope provider. But we could not figure out how
to create a scope provider for this and since
xbase has no scope providers at all we are still looking
for a solution.....

we rewrote the grammar to something like
XFeatureCall returns XExpression :
{XFeature} target=XPrimaryExpression members+=XMember*
;

XMember returns XExpression:
{XMember} "." name=ID
| {XFunctionCall} "." name=ID '('(params+=XExpression (','params+=XExpression )*)?')'
| {XIndex} '[' params+=XExpression (','params+=XExpression )* ']'
;

It does not give us a tree but it puts the a.b.c.d.e in a list in
the right order....

Michael

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Re: Does xbase work? [message #515047 is a reply to message #514871]

Wed, 17 February 2010 04:56

Eclipse User

Michael Scharf schrieb:
> On 2010-02-16 18:44, Sebastian Zarnekow wrote:
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> Xbase is currently under development and subject to frequent changes.
>> The example file does not reflect the latest version - it is used to
>> discuss different syntax variants internally and may be not in sync with
>> the actual code.
>
> One of the problems we found with xbase.Xpression is:
> XFeatureCall returns XExpression :
> XPrimaryExpression
> ({XFeatureCall.target=current} "." name=ID
> ('('(params+=XExpression (','params+=XExpression )*)?')')?)*
> ;
>
> if you have
> a.b.c.d.e
> the expression tree is reversed (you can see this in the outline)
> e
> d
> c
> b
> a
>
> This makes it quite hard to write a scope provider.

Why is it hard?
In order to link e, I'll have to find out about the type of the target
expression (which is a.b.c.d).

Cheers,
Sven

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Re: Does xbase work? [message #649279 is a reply to message #514799]

Tue, 18 January 2011 09:46

Eclipse User

I m trying to get Xbase running by checking out xtext.xbase and xtext.common.types form the cvs repository. But if i run the xbase mw2, i get rule errors ...

7689 [main] INFO  ipse.xtext.generator.LanguageConfig  - generating infrastructure for org.eclipse.xtext.xbase.Xpression with fragments : ImplicitRuntimeFragment, ImplicitUiFragment, GrammarAccessFragment, ParseTreeConstructorFragment, XtextAntlrGeneratorFragment, JavaBasedContentAssistFragment
error(211): ../org.eclipse.xtext.xbase/src-gen/org/eclipse/xtext/xbase/parser/antlr/internal/InternalXpression.g:92:1: [fatal] rule ruleXExpression has non-LL(*) decision due to recursive rule invocations reachable from alts 1,2,6.  Resolve by left-factoring or using syntactic predicates or using backtrack=true option.
warning(200): ../org.eclipse.xtext.xbase/src-gen/org/eclipse/xtext/xbase/parser/antlr/internal/InternalXpression.g:92:1: Decision can match input such as "'('" using multiple alternatives: 1, 2, 6
As a result, alternative(s) 2,6 were disabled for that input
warning(200): ../org.eclipse.xtext.xbase/src-gen/org/eclipse/xtext/xbase/parser/antlr/internal/InternalXpression.g:1864:2: Decision can match input such as "'else'" using multiple alternatives: 1, 2
As a result, alternative(s) 2 were disabled for that input
error(211): ../org.eclipse.xtext.xbase/src-gen/org/eclipse/xtext/xbase/parser/antlr/internal/InternalXpression.g:3025:1: [fatal] rule ruleXExpressionInRichString has non-LL(*) decision due to recursive rule invocations reachable from alts 1,2,5.  Resolve by left-factoring or using syntactic predicates or using backtrack=true option.
warning(200): ../org.eclipse.xtext.xbase/src-gen/org/eclipse/xtext/xbase/parser/antlr/internal/InternalXpression.g:3025:1: Decision can match input such as "'('" using multiple alternatives: 1, 2, 5
As a result, alternative(s) 2,5 were disabled for that input

How did you get the editor running? Can you give me a hint?

Best,
Dan

Re: Does xbase work? [message #649424 is a reply to message #649279]

Wed, 19 January 2011 03:19

Eclipse User

Hi Dan,

are you sure that your meant the CVS repo? It's frozen since June 2010
because we migrated to git.
Please note that Xbase is still subject to change and clients should
currently use only with a good connection to the developers of Xtext ;-)

Regards,
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Am 18.01.11 15:46, schrieb Daniel S:
> I m trying to get Xbase running by checking out xtext.xbase and
> xtext.common.types form the cvs repository. But if i run the xbase mw2,
> i get rule errors ...
>
>
> 7689 [main] INFO ipse.xtext.generator.LanguageConfig - generating
> infrastructure for org.eclipse.xtext.xbase.Xpression with fragments :
> ImplicitRuntimeFragment, ImplicitUiFragment, GrammarAccessFragment,
> ParseTreeConstructorFragment, XtextAntlrGeneratorFragment,
> JavaBasedContentAssistFragment
> error(211):
> ../org.eclipse.xtext.xbase/src-gen/org/eclipse/xtext/xbase/p arser/antlr/internal/InternalXpression.g:92:1:
> [fatal] rule ruleXExpression has non-LL(*) decision due to recursive
> rule invocations reachable from alts 1,2,6. Resolve by left-factoring or
> using syntactic predicates or using backtrack=true option.
> warning(200):
> ../org.eclipse.xtext.xbase/src-gen/org/eclipse/xtext/xbase/p arser/antlr/internal/InternalXpression.g:92:1:
> Decision can match input such as "'('" using multiple alternatives: 1, 2, 6
> As a result, alternative(s) 2,6 were disabled for that input
> warning(200):
> ../org.eclipse.xtext.xbase/src-gen/org/eclipse/xtext/xbase/p arser/antlr/internal/InternalXpression.g:1864:2:
> Decision can match input such as "'else'" using multiple alternatives: 1, 2
> As a result, alternative(s) 2 were disabled for that input
> error(211):
> ../org.eclipse.xtext.xbase/src-gen/org/eclipse/xtext/xbase/p arser/antlr/internal/InternalXpression.g:3025:1:
> [fatal] rule ruleXExpressionInRichString has non-LL(*) decision due to
> recursive rule invocations reachable from alts 1,2,5. Resolve by
> left-factoring or using syntactic predicates or using backtrack=true
> option.
> warning(200):
> ../org.eclipse.xtext.xbase/src-gen/org/eclipse/xtext/xbase/p arser/antlr/internal/InternalXpression.g:3025:1:
> Decision can match input such as "'('" using multiple alternatives: 1, 2, 5
> As a result, alternative(s) 2,5 were disabled for that input
>
>
> How did you get the editor running? Can you give me a hint?
>
> Best,
> Dan
>
>
>

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