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Xtext generate visitor and traversal [message #1771847] Thu, 31 August 2017 10:32 Go to next message
Gabor Szoke is currently offline Gabor SzokeFriend
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Registered: August 2017
Junior Member
I would like to generate a visitor and a pre-order traversal algorithm starting from the root node (DefaultRule). Given the simple statemachine example, i would like to have something similar to this in the end:

interface MyDslVisitor {
    void visitStatemachine(Statemachine sm);
    void visitEndStatemachine(Statemachine sm);
    void visitState(State s);
    void visitEndState(State s);
    void visitTransition(Transition t);
    void visitEndTransition(Transition t);
} 

class MyDslPreOrderTraversal {
  void traverse(Statemachine sm, MyDslVisitor visitor) {
      visitor.visitStatemachine(sm);
      for (State s : sm.getStates()) {
         visitor.visitState(s);
         for (Transition t : s.getTransitions()) {
             visitor.visitTransition(t);
             // ...
             visitor.visitEndTransition(t);
         }
         visitor.visitEndState(s);
      }
      visitor.visitEndStatemachine(sm);
  }
}


Example usage of this visitor could be a pretty-printer, where each child is indented.
class PrettyPrinter implements MyDslVisitor {
    int indent = 0;
    void visitStatemachine(Statemachine sm) {
       println(sm.getName());
    }
    void visitEndStatemachine(Statemachine sm) {}
    void visitState(State s) {
       indent += 2;
       println(s.getName);
    }
    void visitEndState(State s) {
       indent -= 2;
    }
    void visitTransition(Transition t) {
       indent += 2;
       println(t.getName());
    }
    void visitEndTransition(Transition t) {
       indent -= 2;
    }
    void println(String str) {
        System.out.println(Strings.repeat(" ", indent) + str);
    }
}


An output would look like this:
MyStatemachine
    state-A
        transition A -> B
    state-B
        transition B -> C
        transition B -> A
    state-C
        transition C -> A


I tried to come up with an overly simplified example, to show where I got stuck. I looked at the generated MyDslSwitch but it won't suffice if I would like to achieve a pretty-printer such as above. (Obviously, I want to use it in a more complicated tree traversal with stacks and stuff.)

Is there any way to hook onto the mwe2 workflow and generate something similar to the MyDslSwitch?
Re: Xtext generate visitor and traversal [message #1771918 is a reply to message #1771847] Fri, 01 September 2017 06:37 Go to previous message
Karsten Thoms is currently offline Karsten ThomsFriend
Messages: 762
Registered: July 2009
Location: Dortmund, Germany
Senior Member

You could write a generator fragment and add it to your language configuration. The StandardLanguage allows to add fragments to it. Start investigating StandardLanguage and GrammarAccessFragment2.
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