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Partial instance conversion between EMF<->Xtext [message #1849394]

Mon, 17 January 2022 04:30

Eclipse User

Is there any recommended way to perform a partial transformation from EMF->Xtext->EMF?

The first step from EMF->Xtext is trivial. But the second one from (partial)Xtext->EMF seems difficult.

My use-case is the following: we have multiple views on a model. One is an Xtext editor, and a second one is a custom UI which operates on EMF objects. Some content of the model is very hard to edit outside of Xtext, so we would like to not implement a custom UI for that specific object.

I already found something that looks like what we need: the "Popup Xtext Editor" mentioned on this site: https://www.eclipse.org/Xtext/documentation/308_emf_integration.html But it is quite old and I would like to make sure that this is still possible and there are no better ways to do it yet.

Re: Partial instance conversion between EMF<->Xtext [message #1849395 is a reply to message #1849394]

Mon, 17 January 2022 04:42

Eclipse User

Hello Robert,

You may take a look at the Xtext-Sirius Integration (e.g. from Altran : https://altran-mde.github.io/xtext-sirius-integration.io/userguide/index.html), there could be some information that helps you further.

Hope that helps,
Tamás

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