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Troubles with content assist [message #699377]

Thu, 21 July 2011 13:12

Romain Aïssat

Messages: 16
Registered: June 2011

Junior Member

Hi all!

Noob question i suppose =)

Here is a simple grammar to illustrate my problem :

Model:
	( elements += Declaration )*;
	
Declaration :
	'exp' name = ID '=' exp = Expression ';';
	
Expression :
	Add;
	
Add returns Expression :
	TerminalExpression 	( '+' {Add.left = current} right = TerminalExpression
				| '-' {Sub.left = current} right = TerminalExpression)*;
						
TerminalExpression returns Expression :
	 (Reference | '(' Expression ')' | {TerminalExpression} INT);
	
Reference :
	referenced = [Declaration];

Now I'd like to customize the content assist : adding proposals is easy and well explained in the doc. or in blogs. But i need to remove some of the default proposals. Here is an example :

exp a = 1;

exp b = 2;

exp c = a + {Hit CTRL + SPACE}

the content assist gives by default '+' and '-' : I'd like to remove these and really don't know how to do it. I've tried to override methods in AbstractJavaBasedContentProposalProvider but couldn't do anything good...

If someone could give me some hints to achieve this, it would be great!

Thanks in advance

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Re: Troubles with content assist [message #699382 is a reply to message #699377]

Thu, 21 July 2011 13:23

Alexander Nittka

Messages: 1193
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi,

do you invoke code completion immediately after '+' (that is without a space)? If so, '+' is a valid prefix of the keyword '+' and thus the proposal is shown.
Set a break point in AbstractJavaBasedContentProposalProvider#completeKeyword and check if its called for the '+'. If so, I guess this is the place to start.

Alex

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Re: Troubles with content assist [message #699391 is a reply to message #699382]

Thu, 21 July 2011 13:34

Romain Aïssat

Messages: 16
Registered: June 2011

Junior Member

Sorry, my bad, should have write :

exp a = 1;

exp b = 2;

exp c = a {Hit CTRL + SPACE}

I can invoke code completion immediately after 'a' or write any number of whitespaces and '+' and '-' are shown.

Anyway I'll look in those methods and try to apply what you said... Thx!

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Re: Troubles with content assist [message #699427 is a reply to message #699391]

Thu, 21 July 2011 14:27

Romain Aïssat

Messages: 16
Registered: June 2011

Junior Member

You were right : if I do "exp c = a {Hit CTRL + SPACE}", AbstractJavaBasedContentProposalProvider#completeKeyword is called. I have overriden this method in a class extending AbstractJavaBasedContentProposalProvider : but this method isn't called instead of AbstractJavaBasedContentProposalProvider#completeKeyword... So I guess I'm still missing the point :/

EDIT : ok I think I got it now. I've overriden AbstractJavaBasedContentProposalProvider#completeKeyword in [MyDsl]ProposalProvider.java and it works =)

Thx!!

[Updated on: Thu, 21 July 2011 14:34]

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