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higher-level access to model [message #874670]

Mon, 21 May 2012 10:43

Vlad Dumitrescu

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Registered: July 2009
Location: Gothenburg

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Hi,

My model may contain information that is spread all over it, but that needs to be possible to present as a single item. For example, there is meta-information about which functions are exported from a module; a sane API would have a Module.getExportedFunctions that consolidates it.

The way I started to do it is by writing helper methods that do this work. Using Xtend, they even look like native methods of Module.

But there is a problem: I don't want to build this information every time it is needed. I can cache it, but the cache needs to be cleared whenever the model changes. Do I have to use my own build participant, or is there another way?

best regards,
Vlad

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