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How to interact with metamodel.ecore and Model.xmi elements in one template [message #975014]

Wed, 07 November 2012 09:26

Eclipse User

Hello all ,
I have question concerning xpand , I have create a metamodel with the some eclasses , attributes and references . after that I create a dynamic instance of the metamodel to generate Model.xmi and I built the model.xmi according to the structure of the metamodel.My question how I can combine between the elements of the Metamodel and the Model.xmi in one template file .

Ex . I have eclass called Entity in my metamodel
and I have created three Entities Students, lectures, Lecturers in my Model.xmi
I want to generate with xpand somthing like
Entity (no , Students)
Entity (no , lectures)
Entity (no , Lecturers)
and this should be automatically , i tried some code here

«DEFINE main FOR ecore::EPackage»
«FILE name+".txt"»
«EXPAND classifier FOREACH eClassifiers.typeSelect(ecore::EClass) »
«ENDFILE»
«ENDDEFINE»

«DEFINE classifier FOR ecore::EClass»  
  «name» (#no ,«EXPAND class FOREACH name »
  «ENDDEFINE»
 «DEFINE class FOR  name »
 «name»
 «ENDDEFINE»

I have a mistake in the second xpand statment that name is not collection , but how a can get all the entities that I defined ?

Re: How to interact with metamodel.ecore and Model.xmi elements in one template [message #976275 is a reply to message #975014]

Thu, 08 November 2012 07:56

Eclipse User

I guess you are mixing things. The Xpand definitions would not be declared for Ecore, but for concepts of your metamodel, here: Entity.

«DEFINE main FOR MyModel»
«FILE name+".txt"»
«EXPAND classifier FOREACH eAllContents.typeSelect(Entity) »
«ENDFILE»
«ENDDEFINE»

«DEFINE classifier FOR mymetamodelpackage::Entity»  
  «name»
  «ENDDEFINE»

"name" is a single-valued attribute. FOREACH expects a collection.

Install the Xpand sample project (File / New / Xpand Project) and look as reference there.

Regards,
~Karsten

[Updated on: Thu, 08 November 2012 08:01] by Moderator

Re: How to interact with metamodel.ecore and Model.xmi elements in one template [message #977758 is a reply to message #976275]

Fri, 09 November 2012 09:52

Eclipse User

Hi Karsten

thanks a lot but I think you did not get what I want to do Smile

I need everything to be atutomatic for any metamodel,and Entity was only example , I actually I do not know what is the metamodel structure and the model.xmi ,and I want to extract all the eclasses in my metamodel . it means I can not type specific eclass in my defin template as I want all of them

«DEFINE main FOR ecore::EPackage»
«FILE name+".txt"»
«EXPAND classifier FOREACH eClassifiers.typeSelect(ecore::EClass) »
«ENDFILE»
«ENDDEFINE»

«DEFINE classifier FOR ecore::EClass»  // here I will get all the eclasses in m my metamodel as it is defined in the generator   
«name»(no ,«EXPAND classifier FOREACH eAllContents.typeSelect(name)»)// this your code but I have mistake as eAllContents is not in the ecore::EClass
«ENDDEFINE»

«DEFINE classifier FOR metamodel::name»  
  «name»
  «ENDDEFINE»

I need output for any metamodel
for example for xpand example metamodel the output will be

Entity (no , Person)
Entity (no ,address)
Datatype(no, string)
Datatype(no,Integer)

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