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Sat, 27 October 2012 10:52

Eclipse User

I have created an ATL plugin but I cannot figure out how to run it within Eclipse. I know there is a main method that can be called from the command line passing two arguments, but that is not what I mean. Since it is a plugin, I guess we should be able to do something like install it on Eclipse and, with a button, run the transformation on the specified file. Is this possible? What is the normal behavior of this generated transformation?

Re: How to run ATL Plugin [message #962035 is a reply to message #960508]

Sun, 28 October 2012 16:31

Eclipse User

I suggest you to try to create a java interface to call yours atl plugin codes, or, I'm not sure about it, but I think you can create the atl plugin with an interface (java) using a wizard. After it, you can create an java runner file, a jar.

Re: How to run ATL Plugin [message #962238 is a reply to message #962035]

Sun, 28 October 2012 20:15

Eclipse User

By "java interface", do you mean GUI? That would involve the creation of another plugin, if I'm not wrong. I was hoping that this creation of an ATL plugin already did that. Do you have any resources where I can check this GUI plugin creation for Eclipse?

Re: How to run ATL Plugin [message #962755 is a reply to message #962238]

Mon, 29 October 2012 05:58

Eclipse User

Hello,

The ATL documentation provides useful examples to see how you can launch a transformation programmatically.
If you generate the ATL plugin from the transformation, then launching it is quite straightforward: cf. the two examples from https://github.com/101companies/101repo/tree/master/contributions/atl/src/atl.

I hope this helps.

Best regards,

Hugo

Re: How to run ATL Plugin [message #963072 is a reply to message #962755]

Mon, 29 October 2012 10:54

Eclipse User

Thanks Hugo, I'll take a look at it, but what I was interested in is having a GUI to launch the ATL transformation, or at least some kind of "wizard" that allows to select input files and where to save output files. I guess this is out of the topic of this forum.

Re: How to run ATL Plugin [message #963248 is a reply to message #963072]

Mon, 29 October 2012 13:22

Eclipse User

Well, you can of course use the generated method to simply implement (using the appropriate interface) and declare (using the appropriate extension point) a callable action, with a button in the workbench for instance.
This works exactly the same way as any action provided by the Eclipse workbench.

Best regards,

Hugo

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