Eclipse Community Forums: M2T (model-to-text transformation)

Home » Modeling » M2T (model-to-text transformation) » Passing arbitrary data to Xpand

Passing arbitrary data to Xpand [message #630696]

Mon, 04 October 2010 11:29

Eclipse User

Hi,

I'm a newcomer to Xpand and have run into something that I suspect there is a very simple answer to (but haven't found it yet).

I'm starting with an EMF model and wish to generate Java code from it. However, there is various data that I need to make visible to my Xpand template that cannot be found in the model itself. Taking an example, let's assume the model contains an EClass with name='Hello' and I want to generate a corresponding Java class called 'HelloDAO'. No problem - I can say:

«DEFINE DAOClass FOR ecore::EClass»
«FILE name + "DAO.java"»
// DAO code goes here
«ENDFILE»
«ENDDEFINE»

..and that works fine.

However, what my EMF model doesn't tell you is that 'HelloDAO' needs to exist in a package called 'com.example', so I need a 'package com.example' declaration at the top and HelloDAO.java needs to reside in /com/example, relative to my src root. How can I make this information visible to my script?

I'm aware that I can write a Java helper class and expose its methods to my XPT via an .ext file, but given that those Java methods are static, I can't see how I'd pass a separate set of meta-data for each transformation.

Many thanks in advance for any help.

Ben.

Re: Passing arbitrary data to Xpand [message #630760 is a reply to message #630696]

Mon, 04 October 2010 15:34

Eclipse User

Hi,

there are several possibilities to achive this
- use global vars (built-in or from std lib)
- or pass it as param to the template

«DEFINE DAOClass(String basePath) FOR ecore::EClass»
«FILE basePath + "/" + name + "DAO.java"»
// DAO code goes here
«ENDFILE»
«ENDDEFINE»

<expand value="somenamespace::example::DAOClass('com/example') FOR myModel"/>

See Xpand and Std libs for the documentation of the possibilities

~Christian

Re: Passing arbitrary data to Xpand [message #630965 is a reply to message #630760]

Tue, 05 October 2010 12:17

Eclipse User

Thanks Christian.

It looks like global vars are the right choice in my case (as I have many such pieces of data to pass around).

Thanks again,
Ben.

Previous Topic:	[Check] Under HELIOS
Next Topic:	<XPAND> collaboration diagram

Goto Forum:

-=] Back to Top [=-

Current Time: Sat Jul 05 01:43:42 EDT 2025

.:: Contact :: Home ::.

Breadcrumbs

Sign up to our Newsletter