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Hand over properties from Maven to MWE2 Workflow Descriptor [message #658798]

Wed, 09 March 2011 19:52

No real name

Messages: 4
Registered: March 2011

Junior Member

Hi all,

I recently managed to integrate and build my XText 1.0.1 project(s) with Maven, by using the Fornax 3.2.0 M2 Plugin. However, I now need to "hand over" some project-specific settings (or rather "variables") from my Maven settings file to the MWE2 workflow execution. So basically, I want some variables in my MWE2 workflow descriptor (like the "path.src.gen" and the "path.src.gen.subdir" variable in the example below) to be set with values from my "pom.xml".

component = org.eclipse.xpand2.Generator {
	expand = "test::Template::main FOR model"
	outlet = {
		path = "${path.src.gen}/${path.src.gen.subdir}"
	}		
	fileEncoding = "UTF-8"
}

After having searched the web and played around with several different approaches (e.g. to provide corresponding properties in the Fornax plugin's configuration section; or to let Maven create a properties file next to the MWE2 workflow descriptor file) which all did not work, I totally ran out of ideas. So I would be very happy about any information of how to "hand over" and read properties/variables from Maven (or at least, from a properties file) into a MWE2 workflow descriptor.

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Re: Hand over properties from Maven to MWE2 Workflow Descriptor [message #658882 is a reply to message #658798]

Thu, 10 March 2011 09:48

Sebastian Zarnekow

Messages: 3118
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi,

-p paramName=paramValue should work as arguments to the java main method
of the Mwe2Launcher.

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Am 09.03.11 20:52, schrieb lgprime@web.de:
> Hi all,
> I recently managed to integrate and build my XText 1.0.1 project(s) with
> Maven, by using the Fornax 3.2.0 M2 Plugin. However, I now need to "hand
> over" some project-specific settings (or rather "variables") from my
> Maven settings file to the MWE2 workflow execution. So basically, I want
> some variables in my MWE2 workflow descriptor (like the "path.src.gen"
> and the "path.src.gen.subdir" variable in the example below) to be set
> with values from my "pom.xml".
> component = org.eclipse.xpand2.Generator {
> expand = "test::Template::main FOR model"
> outlet = {
> path = "${path.src.gen}/${path.src.gen.subdir}"
> }
> fileEncoding = "UTF-8"
> }
>
> After having searched the web and played around with several different
> approaches (e.g. to provide corresponding properties in the Fornax
> plugin's configuration section; or to let Maven create a properties file
> next to the MWE2 workflow descriptor file) which all did not work, I
> totally ran out of ideas. So I would be very happy about any information
> of how to "hand over" and read properties/variables from Maven (or at
> least, from a properties file) into a MWE2 workflow descriptor.

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Re: Hand over properties from Maven to MWE2 Workflow Descriptor [message #658898 is a reply to message #658798]

Thu, 10 March 2011 10:46

Karsten Thoms

Messages: 762
Registered: July 2009
Location: Dortmund, Germany

Senior Member

The Fornax plugin passes configured properties to the MWE2Launcher. It should be configured like this:

<configuration>
<properties>
  <key1>value1</key1>
  <key2>value2</key2>
</properties>
</configuration>

The latest released version of the plugin is 3.2.3. Try to upgrade.

You could see the complete command line that the plugin executes if you enable debug output with "-X".

~Karsten

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[Updated on: Thu, 10 March 2011 10:46]

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Re: Hand over properties from Maven to MWE2 Workflow Descriptor [message #658954 is a reply to message #658798]

Thu, 10 March 2011 14:51

No real name

Messages: 4
Registered: March 2011

Junior Member

Handing over the variables' settings in the Fornax Plugin's configuration properties section -- as suggested by Karsten -- eventually did the trick!

I am not quite sure what I did wrong the first time I tried this. But as it perfectly works now, I am not exactly motivated to do any further investigations.

In any case, thank you all a lot for the prompt and useful support!

[Updated on: Thu, 10 March 2011 14:59]

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Re: Hand over properties from Maven to MWE2 Workflow Descriptor [message #972538 is a reply to message #658954]

Mon, 05 November 2012 18:00

betty jhonson

Messages: 3
Registered: April 2011

Junior Member

Can I ask how did you do it exactly? Would you share your pom and workflow files? I'm trying to do the very same thing and I just can't get it work well.
I've defined the variable in the properties tag in the fornax plugin and it still doesn't recognize it
Thanks,

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