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Rollback to a previous state of the model [message #1792571]

Thu, 19 July 2018 15:10

Parsa Pourali

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Registered: February 2014

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Hello,

[I have already asked this question on XText and Sirius forums but didn't get the answer I wanted, so I thought maybe someone here could help].

I was wondering if there is a way to get a snapshot of the model at some point and then revert back everything to it. So, basically, I need to do:
1- keeping the snapshot in the memory,
2- do sth with the model and modify it.
3- if the modification is not what I wanted, then revert everything back to the snapshot that is taken in the step 1.

I can't use RecordingCommand because there is not a single change that I roll back. I will show a dialog to the user where the user can do whatever he wants to do with the model and all these changes are within their own recording command. Then he can either accept or cancel the changes. By default, the Accept will do nothing because the changes that he made in the dialog are already saved to the original model at the time of the change. But if he selects the Cancel button, I need to revert back to the time before he opens the dialog.

I tried to create an element (i.e. snapshot resource) in the memory and use ecoreutils.copy to copy everything from the original resource to the snapshot resource. But the copy back from the snapshot to the original resource does not seem to work :(

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Parsa

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Re: Rollback to a previous state of the model [message #1792593 is a reply to message #1792571]

Fri, 20 July 2018 03:31

Ed Merks

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Registered: July 2009

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You have two approaches you can take. One would be to make a copy, have the dialog operate on that copy (not the original), and then reconcile the changes in the copy against the state of the original when the user presses OK. The other approach is to allow the changes to be directly made to the model, using commands, and then to undo the commands if they press Cancel. At the start of the editing, you could use CommandStack.getUndoCommand() to remember the command stack's state, and if they press Cancel, you can call undo() until the getUndoCommand() is the same as it originally was before the dialog started. If all changes are properly done with commands, that should restore the model to the original state.

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Re: Rollback to a previous state of the model [message #1792643 is a reply to message #1792593]

Fri, 20 July 2018 12:35

Parsa Pourali

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Registered: February 2014

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Hi Ed.,

Thanks a lot for your beautiful explanation. I just have a few questions on copying:
1) The actual resource is an XText resource. I don't think that makes any difference in my case, right?

2) should I use ecoreutils.copy to copy or there is a better way such as root.getcontents().add(originalRoot.getallcontents() ? These copies do not point to the same element address (i.e., changing one does not affect the other), right ?

3) If there is an element e.g., root.statemachine1.transition1 in the original model, how can I get it from the copied model? should I get its uri fragment from the original and call it on the coped version?

I'd appreciate it if you could kindly make some notes on the above questions.

Best,
Parsa

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Re: Rollback to a previous state of the model [message #1792644 is a reply to message #1792643]

Fri, 20 July 2018 13:24

Ed Willink

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Registered: July 2009

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Hi

I would caution against using the CommandStack for roll-back since any imperfection in the coding of any undo (or redo) will cause the roll-back to at least partially deficient.

Since you only want the current/saved state you never really need to roll-back; you just point the UI at the one or other of two alternate complete models assigned to Resource.getContents().

You should certainly use the EcoreUtils.copier. The copier maintains a nice map from source to target, but from your description you should never need to use it.

Regards

Ed Willink

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Re: Rollback to a previous state of the model [message #1792669 is a reply to message #1792644]

Fri, 20 July 2018 18:11

Ed Merks

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1) Well yes it makes a difference, because an Xtext resource is a text file, and if you modify directly the model, you would need to destroy (recreate from scratch) the underlying node representation and its textual representation. So direct editing of the model seems not ideal for this case.

2) A Copier is a map. You can create one, call copyAll, and then copyReferences an you'll have a complete map from originals to copies.

3) A copier is a map. You can create the inverse of this map to go from copy to original.

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