| Eclipse modelling - which plugins would be helpful for models creating/editing/validating... [message #690659] |
Wed, 29 June 2011 23:03  |
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Welcome everybody ! This is my first post here, so please, have mercy on me 
Ok, first of all I apologise for my english language skills.
Secondly - here is the "problem":
I have to write my own Eclipse plugins that will help user to:
- create models (compatibile with some metamodels) and fill them with data from variuos files (.csv, .xml, etc.)
- save data from model to files mentioned above (.csv, etc.)
- will generate "transformation template" file (in QVT Operational language) based on choosen metamodels
Ad. 1: I think about couple of plugins - one per file-type - that will have metamodels "registered" in Eclipse (like metamodels used by File->New...->Other...->Example EMF Model Creation Wizards->(different example models wizards)). Every of that plugins should:
- register the command in popup menu for one file type ("Convert to model...")
- be able to load a file (for example .csv) into model (compatibile with its metamodel)
- validate this model
- create model file in the project (maybe some dialog box asking for target file name)
Ad. 2: This is similiar to the first point. Only in different way. I think that this popup menu commands should be grouped, so u can choose for example: Convert to CSV, Convert to XML, etc. Also dialog boxes that allows choosing the options (for example delimiter character for CSV file)
Ad. 3: I have to metamodels (from two of plugins mentioned above - "input" plugin and "output" plugin) and want to generate an QVT Operational template transformation (simple code in the file).
The important thing about this all is that I don't want to reinvent the wheel and I would like to use existing Eclipse plugins for some actions (f.e. validating models, filling models with data, etc.). I tried to "Google out" those things but I failed. I know that projects I should be interested in are: EMF, Ecore and M2M, but I failed on searching the details how to use them in my own plugins (most of data I found was about user-expirience side of those plugins/projects).
So I ask you, please, advise me/guide me through the plurality of the Eclipse projects and tell me, which projects will be the best for my work-to-do.
Sorry for posting such a topic in newscomers group, but it's more "newbie" question rather than question for "Eclipse modelling" group (in my opinion).
I would be grateful for any help and advice
P.S.
Concrete problems are (for example):
- how to implement this metamodel registering ?
- how to use validation/model creation features from EMF/Ecore from my plugin ?
- how to implement the architecture of those "input"/"output" plugins so I will not have to repeat some code fragments (for example - creating an empty model is the same everywhere) ?
- how to "list" my plugins ("input" and "output") to get metamodels they registered - it's neccesary for generating this "template transformation" ?
--
Peter
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| Re: Eclipse modelling - which plugins would be helpful for models creating/editing/validating... [message #690664 is a reply to message #690659] |
Wed, 29 June 2011 23:54  |
 Ed Merks
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Piotr,
I'd suggest you start with
http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.emf.doc/tutorials/xlibmod/xlibmod.html,
read
http://help.eclipse.org/helios/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.emf.doc/references/overview/EMF.html
and look to http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/docs/ for more details.
It's highly unlikely that anyone here will answer questions about QVT to
ATL so best you follow up on specific newsgroups for that.
On 29/06/2011 4:03 PM, Piotr aj?czkowski wrote:
> Welcome everybody ! This is my first post here, so please, have mercy
> on me :)
>
> Ok, first of all I apologise for my english language skills.
>
> Secondly - here is the "problem":
>
> I have to write my own Eclipse plugins that will help user to:
>
> create models (compatibile with some metamodels) and fill them with
> data from variuos files (.csv, .xml, etc.)
> save data from model to files mentioned above (.csv, etc.)
> will generate "transformation template" file (in QVT Operational
> language) based on choosen metamodels
>
>
> Ad. 1: I think about couple of plugins - one per file-type - that will
> have metamodels "registered" in Eclipse (like metamodels used by
> File->New...->Other...->Example EMF Model Creation Wizards->(different
> example models wizards)). Every of that plugins should:
> register the command in popup menu for one file type ("Convert to
> model...")
> be able to load a file (for example .csv) into model (compatibile with
> its metamodel)
> validate this model
> create model file in the project (maybe some dialog box asking for
> target file name)
>
>
> Ad. 2: This is similiar to the first point. Only in different way. I
> think that this popup menu commands should be grouped, so u can choose
> for example: Convert to CSV, Convert to XML, etc. Also dialog boxes
> that allows choosing the options (for example delimiter character for
> CSV file)
>
> Ad. 3: I have to metamodels (from two of plugins mentioned above -
> "input" plugin and "output" plugin) and want to generate an QVT
> Operational template transformation (simple code in the file).
>
> The important thing about this all is that I don't want to reinvent
> the wheel and I would like to use existing Eclipse plugins for some
> actions (f.e. validating models, filling models with data, etc.). I
> tried to "Google out" those things but I failed. I know that projects
> I should be interested in are: EMF, Ecore and M2M, but I failed on
> searching the details how to use them in my own plugins (most of data
> I found was about user-expirience side of those plugins/projects).
>
> So I ask you, please, advise me/guide me through the plurality of the
> Eclipse projects and tell me, which projects will be the best for my
> work-to-do.
>
> Sorry for posting such a topic in newscomers group, but it's more
> "newbie" question rather than question for "Eclipse modelling" group
> (in my opinion).
> I would be grateful for any help and advice :)
>
> P.S.
> Concrete problems are (for example):
>
> how to implement this metamodel registering ?
> how to use validation/model creation features from EMF/Ecore from my
> plugin ?
> how to implement the architecture of those "input"/"output" plugins so
> I will not have to repeat some code fragments (for example - creating
> an empty model is the same everywhere) ?
> how to "list" my plugins ("input" and "output") to get metamodels they
> registered - it's neccesary for generating this "template
> transformation" ?
>
>
>
> --
> Peter
Ed Merks
Professional Support: https://www.macromodeling.com/
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| Re: Eclipse modelling - which plugins would be helpful for models creating/editing/validating... [message #690691 is a reply to message #690664] |
Thu, 30 June 2011 02:52 |
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Thank you for your help I will read this all carefully. About QVT it is not necesarry to know it - my question connected with that topic was about registering metamodels in Eclipse and getting a list of installed plugins that registered own metamodels (some specific kind of plugins - my "input" and "output" plugins).
Ed Merks wrote on Wed, 29 June 2011 19:54Piotr,
I'd suggest you start with
<link cut due to I have less than 5 posts>
read
<link cut> and look to <link cut> for more details.
It's highly unlikely that anyone here will answer questions about QVT to
ATL so best you follow up on specific newsgroups for that.
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