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[xpand + xtend]: how to access MWE workflow properties in Xpand templates, with xtend 2.17.x? [message #1805607]

Thu, 18 April 2019 15:00

Mauro Antonaci

Messages: 12
Registered: February 2010

Junior Member

I'm facing a problem tryin to migrate some Xpand-based generator projects from oxygen to eclipse-2019-03 release of eclipse modeling platform.

Until Oxygen release I used to access some MWE workflow properties from Xpand templates using Xtend standard utility library (org.eclipse.xtend.util.stdlib plugin), as described in the following example:

In the MWE workflow definition a bundle of properties is loaded from a properties file, and then the generator is called:

<workflow>
...
        <component class="org.eclipse.xtend.util.stdlib.PropertiesReader">
  		<propertiesFile value="${propertiesFile}"/>
	</component>
...
    <!-- call the generator... -->
</workflow>

In Xpand templates an Xtend (java) extension is used to access property values:

...
String getProperty(String name) : JAVA
  org.eclipse.xtend.util.stdlib.PropertiesExtension.getProperty(java.lang.String);

String getGenerateAppModulesProperty() :
	if getProperty("generate-appmodules") != null then
		""+getProperty("generate-appmodules")
	else
		""; 
...

I don't know if this is the best way to accomplish the task, but it worked since 2009 until oxygen release (with Xtend v.2.2.x).

Tryin to migrate to eclipse-2019-03, and with xtend v. 2.17 I noticed that there is no more xtend.util.stdlib plugin, so that method does not work anymore.

I need some suggestion to find an alternative way.

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Re: [xpand + xtend]: how to access MWE workflow properties in Xpand templates, with xtend 2.17.x? [message #1805614 is a reply to message #1805607]

Thu, 18 April 2019 19:14

Karsten Thoms

Messages: 762
Registered: July 2009
Location: Dortmund, Germany

Senior Member

Xpand is in version 2.2 for years, the plugin org.eclipse.xtend.util.stdlib is still available. You seem to have an inconsistent target platform. Check that and you should be able to use the current extensions further.

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Re: [xpand + xtend]: how to access MWE workflow properties in Xpand templates, with xtend 2.17.x? [message #1805627 is a reply to message #1805614]

Fri, 19 April 2019 07:35

Mauro Antonaci

Messages: 12
Registered: February 2010

Junior Member

Karsten Thoms wrote on Thu, 18 April 2019 21:14

Xpand is in version 2.2 for years, the plugin org.eclipse.xtend.util.stdlib is still available. You seem to have an inconsistent target platform. Check that and you should be able to use the current extensions further.

Thank you for the suggestion. Now I explicitly installed Xpand 2.2 (with Xtend 2.2) from a local update site (still available here) and now it works again.

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