Eclipse Community Forums: Papyrus

Home » Modeling » Papyrus » Abort Save(How to prevent or abort saving)

Sat, 10 December 2016 10:03

Eclipse User

It is important for my plug-in that the model is not saved in an inconsitent state.
(I am aware that it would be convenient for the user to save inconsitent models, but that's not possbile in this case.)

My current attempt is to use the EMF Validation Framework to define constraints.
Then I trigger the batch validation in an AboutToDoSaveListener. So far, this works.

But now my question is: how do I abort the saving, when I detect a violation of the constraints?

Or is there another way earlier in the lifecycle to prevent the model from being saved?

Re: Abort Save [message #1755125 is a reply to message #1749737]

Tue, 28 February 2017 04:41

Eclipse User

Hi Philipp,

the save is done by the class "SaveAndDirtyService". It fires the "AboutToDoSave" listeners first and then the "DoSave" listeners. All listeners return void, i.e. there is currently no means that a listener can cancel/abort the save mechanism. This is arguably a limitation which prevents for instance your use case. Please post a bug demanding such a feature (with severity = enhancement) - though I can't promise whether/when it will be implemented.

Best regards

Ansgar

Re: Abort Save [message #1755156 is a reply to message #1755125]

Tue, 28 February 2017 09:38

Eclipse User

A colleague (thanks) made me aware that there is already a quite old bug related to validation & saving: Bug 293145 - [Constraints-Validation] Support to automatically validate the model when saving
The difference to your case is that save is still possible, even if validation errors exist. Of course, the tool should do that in general, since not being able to save might imply loosing work. But iit should be possible to tailor that in a specific case.

Previous Topic:	Diagram fragmentation: "Create Submodel" from diagram
Next Topic:	Display applied stereotype name CSS

Goto Forum:

-=] Back to Top [=-

Current Time: Sat Aug 30 06:21:24 EDT 2025

.:: Contact :: Home ::.

Breadcrumbs

Sign up to our Newsletter