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Is it possible to define built-in EObjects [message #846677]

Mon, 16 April 2012 12:06

Eclipse User

Hi all,

We face a problem to properly manage predefined functions (native functions) in our Xtext based language.

Suppose that we have an EObject subclass A.

We would like to declare in our grammar (or in our Java code) some predefined instances of A, that have a specific name (native/a1 and native/a2 for instance).

If I declare A that way:

A :
name=(Name | "native/a1" | "native/a2")

Then the built in functions are properly recognized but as simple keywords, not as an instance of A.

Is there a way to prepopulate A with two instances corresponding to those built in functions?

Daniel

Re: Is it possible to define built-in EObjects [message #857741 is a reply to message #846677]

Thu, 26 April 2012 16:32

Eclipse User

You can define built-in objects in your DSL language - place them in a file in your plug-in and make sure you include those files in build.properties. Then bind your own IGlobalScopeProvider:

public class DSLRuntimeModule extends AbstractDSLRuntimeModule {
...
    @Override
    public Class<? extends IGlobalScopeProvider> bindIGlobalScopeProvider() {
    	return DSLImportUriGlobalScopeProvider.class;
    }
...
}

And make it look something like this:

public class DSLImportUriGlobalScopeProvider extends
		ImportUriGlobalScopeProvider {

	@Override
	protected LinkedHashSet<URI> getImportedUris(final Resource resource) {
		LinkedHashSet<URI> temp = super.getImportedUris(resource);
		temp.add(URI.createURI("platform:/plugin/<plugin id>/resources/builtin_functions.inc"));
		temp.add(URI.createURI("platform:/plugin/<plugin id>/resources/builtin_variables.inc"));
		return temp;
	}
}

This worked wonderfully for us, but now we're using Namespaces scoping (which I believe is the default) and I'm trying to find out how to do it without this URI approach...

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