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Hide technical UID in XText editor [message #1747021]

Tue, 08 November 2016 15:27

Steffen Grieser

Messages: 2
Registered: November 2016

Junior Member

Hi,

I have created a textual DSL using the Xtext framework. The target language of the DSL requires a technical UID for almost every grammar element. Once assigned to an element, the UID must not be modified in subsequent code generations. Therefore, the ID has to be part of the DSL grammar e.g.:

Element:
	uid=UID
	'element' name=ID '{'
	    children+=Element*
        '}'
;

UID: '@ID' '(' value=ID ')' ;

The problem is: this ID spoils the content in the XText editor. Therefore I am looking for a way to hide it in the XText editor. Important: this has nothing to do with 'hidden tokens' as I need the UID value in the AST during code generation but want to not show it in the XText editor.

My first idea was to remove the UID from the node nodel after parsing. Is this a sensible solution? Does anyone know a better solution?

Looking forward for any response!

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Re: Hide technical UID in XText editor [message #1747233 is a reply to message #1747021]

Fri, 11 November 2016 05:26

Christian Dietrich

Messages: 14665
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

i dont know a nice way to do this. maybe you can use the folding feature to hide the IDs, but i am not sure if this will work in all cases

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Re: Hide technical UID in XText editor [message #1747518 is a reply to message #1747233]

Tue, 15 November 2016 15:36

Steffen Grieser

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Registered: November 2016

Junior Member

Folding was my first approach. I successfully hided the uids by building a region of the uid and the name of an Element. When the region is (by default) folded, only the name feature is visible. Basically, this is exactly what I was looking for. A problem arises when the name of the Element is edited. Then, the region is unfolded automatically and the uid is visible again. Moreover, when an element is moved (cut/paste actions), it is not assured that the uid is copied with the name.

I keep the folding in mind as a fallback solution. But I am still searching for a way to solve the problem programmatically.

Anyway, thank you very much for the reply!

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Re: Hide technical UID in XText editor [message #1750096 is a reply to message #1747518]

Fri, 16 December 2016 06:11

Puneet Patwari

Messages: 64
Registered: November 2014

Member

Hi Steffan

Did you find any solution? I am also looking for the same thing. any help will be appreciated.

Puneet

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Re: Hide technical UID in XText editor [message #1831366 is a reply to message #1750096]

Tue, 18 August 2020 09:16

Georgiana Ecobici

Messages: 23
Registered: July 2019

Junior Member

Hello,

There are any updates on this topic, how to hide technical details in xtext?

Thanks.

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Re: Hide technical UID in XText editor [message #1831368 is a reply to message #1831366]

Tue, 18 August 2020 11:01

Ed Willink

Messages: 7655
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi

Xtext has a lot of magic capabilities for hidden nodes/comments.

So one approach might be to contrive a couple of variants of emitComments, one of which serializes the ID and the other serializes it as an empty String.

Another approach might be to have two features for the ID; one for when you want it displayed and one for transient and/or volatile and/or derived variable for when you hide it. You just need to ensure that YourSaveImpl unhides the IDs before a save to disk. You might find that an EAnnotation works here too. You might even find that there is a combination of transient/volatile/derived that EMF persists, but which Xtext does not serialize. NB precise control of transient/volatile/derived will require a manually maintained *.ecore.

If you're prepared to indulge in the equivalent of self-modifying code, you could try dynamically tweaking transient/volatile/derived in the metamodel or perhaps the grammar to suit your prevailing mood.

Regards

Ed Willink

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Re: Hide technical UID in XText editor [message #1831466 is a reply to message #1831368]

Thu, 20 August 2020 11:06

Georgiana Ecobici

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Registered: July 2019

Junior Member

I don't understand very well how to approach this.

"Another approach might be to have two features for the ID; one for when you want it displayed and one for transient and/or volatile and/or derived variable for when you hide it"

How can I add a feature that is not displayed?

I manually modify the ecore model of the grammar and add the technical details I need? I need to ad an ID in case I have duplicated elements by name.

[Updated on: Thu, 20 August 2020 11:14]

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