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[TCS] Templates for ambiguous classes [message #7486]

Thu, 27 March 2008 08:21

Eclipse User

Hi, assuming you have a km3 metamodel with several packages and repeated
class names like this...

package SimpleTCS {
class Article {
attribute value : String;
}
}
package OtherPackage {
class Article {
attribute value2 : String;
}
}

...then if I define a TCS Syntax like this...
template Article
: "vaue" "=" value
;

...then this does not work with TCS:
[C-2] There are several metamodel Classes corresponding to ClassTemplate
Article

Is there a way to make this work with TCS, or are such situations
currently not supported?
Similarly, what would be the convention in the ModelAdapter to pass
qualifiedNames?

Re: [TCS] Templates for ambiguous classes [message #9745 is a reply to message #7486]

Mon, 31 March 2008 04:35

Eclipse User

Hi,
It is somewhat urgent for me to tackle this, so I need to know whether and
TCS deals with qualifying classes in metamodels.
I am prepared to extend TCS to include new syntax elements to make it
work. Currently I think the easiest would be to extend the names of
templates to be package notations, making it the responsibility of the
ModelAdapter and not the Parser to resolve the path.
The only other idea I have is extending the metamodel to have a path
attribute in NamedElement, which would be the full path to the element. I
don't know whether there is a better way.

Any idea what's better, or what TCS will do in the future?

Re: [TCS] Templates for ambiguous classes [message #9776 is a reply to message #9745]

Mon, 31 March 2008 07:03

Eclipse User

Hi,

> It is somewhat urgent for me to tackle this, so I need to know whether
> and TCS deals with qualifying classes in metamodels. I am prepared to
> extend TCS to include new syntax elements to make it work. Currently I
> think the easiest would be to extend the names of templates to be
> package notations, making it the responsibility of the ModelAdapter and
> not the Parser to resolve the path.

The current version of TCS does not support fully qualified name.

What you suggest looks like what is currently supported in ATL. It would
indeed be nice to have this feature in TCS.

Regards,

Frédéric Jouault

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