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How to get content assist to work with table names from a database [message #550632] Tue, 03 August 2010 23:36 Go to next message
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I am new to xtext and I am trying to figure out how to have my DSL bring up the table names in my database. So I need to "link" my language to my postgres database. I believe I need to use scoping but I don't how to write the scopeprovider. Does anyone have an example of how this is done? If I am completely off in how this is supposed to be done please forgive me. Any help would be appreciated Embarrassed
Re: How to get content assist to work with table names from a database [message #550729 is a reply to message #550632] Wed, 04 August 2010 08:30 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Am 8/4/10 1:36 AM, schrieb Pam:
> I am new to xtext and I am trying to figure out how to have my DSL bring
> up the table names in my database. So I need to "link" my language to
> my postgres database. I believe I need to use scoping but I don't how to
> write the scopeprovider. Does anyone have an example of how this is
> done? If I am completely off in how this is supposed to be done please
> forgive me. Any help would be appreciated :blush:

I did this once by exporting the schema as an ecore model. This also
allows developers to work in offline mode.
You could of course also do the conversion "on the fly" but it should be
converted to EMF somehow. It will work out of the box that way.

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Re: How to get content assist to work with table names from a database [message #550916 is a reply to message #550729] Wed, 04 August 2010 15:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Thank you for your response. Is there documentation on how to export the schema as an emf?
Re: How to get content assist to work with table names from a database [message #550955 is a reply to message #550916] Wed, 04 August 2010 16:44 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On 8/4/10 5:52 PM, Pam wrote:
> Thank you for your response. Is there documentation on how to export the
> schema as an emf?

This is not a small task...
Consult:
- Documentation for your DB (how to read the schema)
- The EMF book (how to construct an ecore model programatically)

Regards
- henrik
Re: How to get content assist to work with table names from a database [message #551085 is a reply to message #550916] Thu, 05 August 2010 07:31 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Hi,

if the schema does not permanently change (and you would have to read it
for every content assist invocation or validation), you may also
consider having an Xtext grammar for a simple representation of the
tables/columns, something like

table t1{column1, column2, column3}
table t2{column1}...

Such a text representation should be easy to produce (much easier than
producing the ecore file). Xtext takes care of the model construction.
This model can then be used for the content assist.

Again, much depends on your grammar. Do you directly reference table or
column types (in which case you have to customise scoping) or do you
only have IDs, so that you have to customise code completion and
validation (heavily).

Alex


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Re: How to get content assist to work with table names from a database [message #551306 is a reply to message #551085] Thu, 05 August 2010 20:58 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Re: How to get content assist to work with table names from a database [message #551308 is a reply to message #551085] Thu, 05 August 2010 21:08 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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The language I am trying to achieve is a rework of SQL

namespace PubArticle{
	/* Gets the  Articles and Videos for the Homepage for a specific website and LandingPageSection with Related Vehicle*/
	Query PubArticle.Top.HomePageArticlesVideos.bySection{
		[Description: Brings back available articles, images, and Videos for Homepage Sections]
		[Filter: 	PubArticleLandingPageWebSiteId*, PubArticleLandingPageSectionName*]
		[Return:	PubArticleArticle.PubArticleDatePrintCover,
					PubArticleArticle.PubArticleId,
					PubArticleArticle.PubArticlePromoTeaser,
					PubArticleArticle.PubArticlePromoTeaserLarge,
					PubArticleArticle.PubArticlePromoTitle,
					PubArticleArticle.PubArticleSlug,
					PubArticleArticle.PubArticleSubtitle,
					PubArticleArticle.PubArticleUrl,
					VehicleStrongHoldVehicle.VehicleMake As VideoVehicleMake,
					VehicleStrongHoldVehicle.VehicleModel As VideoVehicleModel,
					VehicleStrongHoldVehicle.VehicleYear As VideoVehicleYear,
					Video.VideoDescription,
					Video.VideoId,
					Video.VideoThumbnailUrl,
					Video.VideoTitle,
					LandingPageSectionVideoArticle.PubArticleLandingPageSectionArticleOrder,
					VehicleMake.VehicleMake,
					VehicleModel.VehicleModel,
					PubArticleVehicleCache.VehicleYear,
					PubArticleImageTypeSpecific.PromoSmallFileMasterId,
					PubArticleImageTypeSpecific.PromoLargeFileMasterId,
					PubArticleImageTypeSpecific.HomepageFileMasterId,
					PubArticleImageTypeSpecific.HeaderFileMasterId
		]
		[From:		LandingPageSectionVideoArticle
		    Inner Join PubArticleLandingPageSection On LandingPageSectionVideoArticle.PubArticleLandingPageSectionId=PubArticleLandingPageSection.PubArticleLandingPageSectionId
		    Inner Join PubArticleLandingPage On PubArticleLandingPageSection.PubArticleLandingPageId=PubArticleLandingPage.PubArticleLandingPageId
		    Left Join PubArticleArticle On LandingPageSectionVideoArticle.PubArticleId=PubArticleArticle.PubArticleId 
			Left Join Video On  Video.VideoId=LandingPageSectionVideoArticle.VideoId
		    Left Join PubArticleImageTypeSpecific On PubArticleArticle.PubArticleId=PubArticleImageTypeSpecific.PubArticleId
		    Optional Left Join VideoVehicle On Video.VideoId=VideoVehicle.VideoId
		    Optional Left Join VehicleStrongHoldVehicle On VideoVehicle.PubArticleVehicleId=VehicleStrongHoldVehicle.PubArticleVehicleId
			Optional Left Join PubArticleVehicleCache On PubArticleArticle.PubArticleId=PubArticleVehicleCache.PubArticleId
			Optional Left Join VehicleMake On PubArticleVehicleCache.VehicleMakeCache=VehicleMake.VehicleMake
			Optional Left Join VehicleModel On PubArticleVehicleCache.VehicleModelCache=VehicleModel.VehicleModel
			
		]
		[Where: PubArticleLandingPage.PubArticleLandingPageName='Homepage']
		[Order: PubArticleLandingPageSectionArticleOrder]
							}
							
					
							
		/*For  Gets Articles for a specific Category not on the homepage with images of specific sizes header', 'homepage', 'promo_large', 'promo_small given */

			Query PubArticle.Top.ArticlesImages.byCategory{
			[Description: Gets Articles for A Specific Category not already on the Homepage]
			[Filter: SiteId*, PubArticleSiteCategoryCategory*]
			[Return: 	PubArticleArticle.PubArticleUrl,
						PubArticleArticle.PubArticleDatePrintCover,
						PubArticleArticle.PubArticleId,
						PubArticleArticle.PubArticlePromoTeaser,
						PubArticleArticle.PubArticlePromoTeaserLarge,
						PubArticleArticle.PubArticlePromoTitle,
						PubArticleArticle.PubArticleSlug,
						PubArticleArticle.PubArticleSubtitle,
						PubArticleImageTypeSpecific.PromoSmallFileMasterId,
						PubArticleImageTypeSpecific.PromoLargeFileMasterId,
						PubArticleImageTypeSpecific.HomepageFileMasterId,
						PubArticleImageTypeSpecific.HeaderFileMasterId
			]
			[From: PubArticleArticle
				Inner Join PubArticleSiteCategoryCache On PubArticleArticle.PubArticleId=PubArticleSiteCategoryCache.PubArticleId
				Left Join PubArticleImageTypeSpecific On PubArticleArticle.PubArticleId=PubArticleImageTypeSpecific.PubArticleId
				Left Join LandingPageSectionVideoArticle On PubArticleArticle.PubArticleId=LandingPageSectionVideoArticle.PubArticleId
							and PubArticleLandingPageName='Homepage'
				]
			[Where:  LandingPageSectionVideoArticle.PubArticleId is null]
			[Order: PubArticleDatePrintCover desc, PubArticlePromoTitle]
			}
			
		}



The grammar is not yet complete because of the multiple options that one can have for each section. This is what I have so far but it still needs to be refined quite a bit

grammar org.xtext.MyDsl with org.eclipse.xtext.common.Terminals

generate myDsl "http://www.xtext.org/MyDsl"

Model:
	(namespace+=NameSpace)*;
	
NameSpace:
	'Namespace' name=ID "{"
			(query+=Query)*
			"}";
	
Query: 
	'Query' name=[NameSpace]("." ID)*  "{"
		("[" 'Description:' description=MYSTRING"]")
		("[" 'Query:'queryName=QueryName"]")?
		("[" 'Filter:' filter+=ColumnName'*'? (',' filter+=ColumnName'*'?)*"]")?
		("[" 'Return:' return+=QualifiedTableReference 'As'? ID? (',' return+=QualifiedTableReference 'As'? ID?)* "]")?
		("[" 'From:'(from+=TableName) 
		((innerjoinexpression+=InnerJoinExpression?)*)
		((outerjoinexpression+=OuterJoinExpression?)*) 
		"]")?
		("["(where=Where)?"]")?
		//("[" 'Order:' order+=ColumnName " "|"desc"|"asc"(',' order+=ColumnName)" "|"desc"|"asc"*"]")?
		"}";

Where:
'Where:' QualifiedTableReference(expression=WhereExpression);
		
QueryName:
Queryname=[NameSpace]("." ID);


 
InnerJoinExpression:
('Optional')? 'Inner Join' name=TableJoinName
  "On" QualifiedTableReference"="QualifiedTableReference*
  (("And" QualifiedTableReference"="QualifiedTableReference)?);
OuterJoinExpression:
 ('Optional')? 'Left Join' name=TableNameExtended
  "On" QualifiedTableReference"="QualifiedTableReference*
  (("And" QualifiedTableReference"="QualifiedTableReference)?)
  (("And" QualifiedTableReference"="STRING)?);  
  
WhereExpression:
	 ("=" STRING|INT)| "is null"| "is not null"|">" INT|"<" INT|">="INT;	
	

MYSTRING:
ID(" "ID)*;
			
ColumnName: 
	name=ID;
	
TableJoinName:
	name=ID;	

TableName:
	name=ID;
	
TableNameExtended:
	name=ID;	
		

QualifiedTableReference:
ID'.'ID;


Re: How to get content assist to work with table names from a database [message #551372 is a reply to message #551308] Fri, 06 August 2010 08:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Hi,

a first brief response... You don't use cross references in your
grammar, but store a column name as a string only.

What are the consequences of that:
writing a basic code completion will not be too difficult (once you get
the column names from the actual database), but writing a sophisticated
code completion will get "messy" (e.g. propose in a Return only column
names of tables that were declared in From).
Now assume you have the code completion working. This will not keep the
user from writing any other x.y string as a column name. The user won't
get a feedback either, whether the column actually exists (other than by
trying out code completion at that position to see whether the current
column is among the proposals). So you may have to implement (quite
complex) validation ensuring that the column references are OK.

One solution to this problem is using cross references and scoping for
restricing the visibility of columns.

Also, your overall use case is not quite clear to me, yet. You work on
this grammar currently to get editor support for the files. But somebody
else writes another parser (or has already done so) for transforming
them into the target syntax?
I ask because some of the elements that seem vital are not bound to a
feature in your grammar (such as the "as-name" of a qualified table
reference in the return part of a query). In the long run it would seem
more reasonable to generate the target syntax directly from the model
instantiated from the file. (why having to maintain two parsers?)

I will prepare a longer response with some hints as to the grammar later on.

Alex


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Re: How to get content assist to work with table names from a database [message #551395 is a reply to message #551308] Fri, 06 August 2010 09:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Hi,


the following is a first grammar suggestion for using cross references
on tables and columns (excuse if you have to adapt comments I made
within the grammar because of automatic formatting issues). This gives
you immediate code completion and validation for references. However,
you will have to adapt the scoping, e.g. in order to restrict visibility
of columns in a join to those from the involved tables and return
columns to thos reachable from the From statement.
You basically provide a separate file containing the tables with their
columns (I will provide an example).

Please do not expect *me* to provide much more help, e.g. on the scoping
(estimate the time I spent so far on your problems to be about one
working day and figure the fee you would have had to pay for a day of
professional consulting). There are several threads within this forum
dealing with scoping.

Here is the Grammar.

//we do not only allow queries, but also
//table definitions, so that we can easily refer to columns
Model: TableDefinitions|NameSpaces;

//make tables and columns available, it should be trivial to
//automatically produce this format
TableDefinitions:{TableDefinition}'tabledefinitions' tables+=Table*;
Table: name=ID'{'columns+=Column*'}';
Column: name=ID;

//the actual queries
NameSpaces:{NameSpaces}
(namespace+=NameSpace)*;

NameSpace:
'Namespace' name=ID "{"
(query+=Query)*
"}";

Query:
//question: is the order of the elements fixed (desc, query, ...)
//or can the order vary (in which case unordered groups could be used

//separate the namespace from the name of the query because
//when calculating the fully qualified name of Query, the
//container (NameSpace) is automatically added
'Query' namespace=[NameSpace] ("." name=QualifiedName) "{"
//a description is mandatory?
("[" 'Description:' description=MYSTRING"]")
//is this a reference to a different query or this query
//then use ("[" 'Query:'queryName=[Query|QualifiedName]"]")?
//or simply a name different than the one that would be calculated
//from the name definition above
("[" 'Query:'queryName=QueryName"]")?
("[" 'Filter:' filter+=Filter (',' filter+=Filter)*"]")?
//no return fragments yet
("[" 'Return:' return+=ReturnElement (',' return+=ReturnElement)* "]")?

("[" 'From:' from=[Table]
(innerjoinexpression+=InnerJoinExpression)*
(outerjoinexpression+=OuterJoinExpression)*
"]")?
("[" 'Where:' where=Where"]")?
//("[" 'Order:' order+=ColumnName " "|"desc"|"asc"(','
order+=ColumnName)" "|"desc"|"asc"*"]")?
"}";

//I would like to use cross references for the filter, but there would
be some
//work involved referring to them without specifying the table name as well
Filter: column=ID (multi?='*')?;

ReturnElement: ref=[Column|QualifiedTableReference] ('As' asname=ID)?;

Where: column=[Column|QualifiedTableReference] (expression=WhereExpression);

QueryName:
Queryname=[NameSpace]("." ID);

//metamodel inference, so that common parts of inner and outer join
//can be treated easier
JoinExpression: InnerJoinExpression|OuterJoinExpression;

//sorry for my shallow SQL knowledge, but your examples contain little hints
//on the full join syntax (are several Ands possible (in this case
replate ? by *)
InnerJoinExpression:
//store optional flag in the model, don't use keywords containing a space
//refer to the table
(optional?='Optional')? 'Inner' 'Join' jointablename=[Table]
"On" equals+=ColumnRefEqualsExpression
("And" equals+=ColumnRefEqualsExpression)?;

//can only an outer join have an comparison to a string
//if not, one could merge the two joins into one rule
//only differentiating them via 'Inner' and 'Left' (e.g. as a stored
enum value)
OuterJoinExpression:
('Optional')? 'Left' 'Join' jointablename=[Table]
"On" equals+=ColumnRefEqualsExpression
("And" equals+=ColumnRefEqualsExpression)?
//this will have to be adapted if you want to reference columns without
//the table name prefix
(("And" equals+=ColumnStringEqualsExpression)?);

ColumnRefEqualsExpression: left=[Column|QualifiedTableReference] '='
right=[Column|QualifiedTableReference];
ColumnStringEqualsExpression: left=[Column|QualifiedTableReference] '='
right=STRING;

WhereExpression:
IntCompareExpression|NullExpression|NotNullExpression|String EqualsExpression;

NullExpression: "is" "null"{NullExpression};
NotNullExpression: "is" "not" "null"{NotNullExpression};

IntCompareExpression: comparator=Comparator value=INT;
StringEqualsExpression: '=' value=STRING;
enum Comparator: equals = "="| greater=">"|less="<"|
lessequals="<="|greaterequals= ">=";

//you possibly have to add keywords to the list, otherwise a description
//cannot for example contain the word 'As'
MYSTRING hidden(): (ID|WS|INT|STRING|'not'|','|ANY_OTHER)*;


//don't allow spaces or comments whithin a qualified name
QualifiedName hidden():ID('.'ID)*;


QualifiedTableReference hidden():
ID'.'ID;


//END OF GRAMMAR

Here is the sample file containing column definitions which should make
the sample models you gave in your posts to work almost completely

tabledefinitions
PubArticleArticle{
PubArticleDatePrintCover
PubArticleId
PubArticlePromoTeaser
PubArticlePromoTeaserLarge
PubArticlePromoTitle
PubArticleSlug
PubArticleSubtitle
PubArticleUrl
PubArticleLandingPageName
}

VehicleStrongHoldVehicle{
VehicleMake
VehicleModel
VehicleYear
PubArticleVehicleId
}

Video{
VideoDescription
VideoId
VideoThumbnailUrl
VideoTitle
}

VideoVehicle{
VideoId
PubArticleVehicleId
}

LandingPageSectionVideoArticle{
PubArticleLandingPageSectionArticleOrder
PubArticleLandingPageSectionId
PubArticleId
VideoId
}

VehicleMake{
VehicleMake
}

VehicleModel{
VehicleModel
}

PubArticleVehicleCache{
VehicleYear
PubArticleId
VehicleMakeCache
VehicleModelCache
}

PubArticleImageTypeSpecific{
PromoSmallFileMasterId
PromoLargeFileMasterId
HomepageFileMasterId
HeaderFileMasterId
PubArticleId
}

PubArticleLandingPage{
PubArticleLandingPageId
PubArticleLandingPageName
}

PubArticleLandingPageSection{
PubArticleLandingPageId
PubArticleLandingPageSectionId
}

PubArticleSiteCategoryCache{
PubArticleId
}

PostalCodeRegionCountyCity{
CityId
CountyId
RegionId
PostalCode
}
City{
CityId
}
County{
CountyId
}
Region{
RegionId
}
//END OF TABLE DEFINITIONS

Alex


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Re: How to get content assist to work with table names from a database [message #551498 is a reply to message #550632] Fri, 06 August 2010 16:30 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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First Let me just say Thank You for your explicit response. I am going to go through this today.. I can't tell you how much I appreciate all this help.
Re: How to get content assist to work with table names from a database [message #551504 is a reply to message #550632] Fri, 06 August 2010 17:54 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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This is incredible. Thanks again. The language was originally created using a separate parser created by a Java Developer. The idea was to create this in xtext and then only use one parser.

Just so I understand what you did I have a couple of questions:

What is the purpose of the keyword hidden()?

What does it mean when you have the curly brackets with rule inside:
NullExpression: "is" "null"{NullExpression};


Also to answer your questions:
1: Order of Elements is not important. So unorderered groups could be used. Can you explain that a little bit for me.
2. Description is Mandatory
3. The query referred to is a previously existing query not the current one.
4. Yes Several Ands are possible
5. Only the Left Join would have the comparison string otherwise it would be in the where clause


Thanks again.
Re: How to get content assist to work with table names from a database [message #551688 is a reply to message #551504] Mon, 09 August 2010 07:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Hi,

> What is the purpose of the keyword hidden()?
The purpose of hidden tokens (the default use cases are white spaces and
comments) is that they can be written in the model file but that they
need not be specified in the grammar at each position where they are
allowed to appear. E.g. if you have the following in a rule
'Namespace' name=ID
you basically say: as the first element the keyword 'Namesapce' has to
appear and after that an ID. But you don't say explicitly: and in
between there can be an arbitrary number of white spaces and comments.
This is implicit as by default WS, SL_COMMENT and ML_COMMENT are hidden
(see the definition of the Terminals grammar you import at the beginning
of your grammar).

For
QualifiedName:ID('.'ID)*;

x/*stupid comment*/ .//another one
y

or

x . y

would be valid, as comments and white spaces are ignored.

By writing

QualifiedName hidden():ID('.'ID)*;

I require that no tokens should be hidden for that rule. Thereby I
disallow white spaces and comments within a qualified name. The above
would thus cause syntax errors while x.y is OK.

See also the Xtext documentation.



> What does it mean when you have the curly brackets with rule inside:
> NullExpression: "is" "null"{NullExpression};
My design choice for where-expressions was having objects of different
type for each possibility. That way I can use polymorphism when
generating something from the model or when working with the model in
general.
NullExpression: "is" "null"
is a datatype rule as there are no assignments. That is, this rule does
not create an object but a datatype. The curly braces represent an
unassigned action, causing the creation of an object of type NullExpression.

See also the Xtext documentation.

NullExpression: "is" "null"{NullExpression};

> 1: Order of Elements is not important. So unorderered groups could be
> used. Can you explain that a little bit for me.

<x> & <y> & <z>

basically requires that x,y and z appear *exactly* once in the file, but
the order of them is not specified. If you want one to appear *at most*
once, you simply make it optional using the question mark.

See also the Xtext documentation.

> 2. Description is Mandatory
See grammar below

> 3. The query referred to is a previously existing query not the current
> one.
To be achieved via scoping, excluding the current query, if you want
sophisticated validation and code completion

> 4. Yes Several Ands are possible
See grammar below

> 5. Only the Left Join would have the comparison string otherwise it
> would be in the where clause
See grammar below

Alex

Adapted grammar.

//we do not only allow queries, but also
//table definitions, so that we can easily refer to columns
Model: TableDefinitions|NameSpaces;

//make tables and columns available, it should be trivial to
//automatically produce this format
TableDefinitions:{TableDefinition}'tabledefinitions' tables+=Table*;
Table: name=ID'{'columns+=Column*'}';
Column: name=ID;

//the actual queries
NameSpaces:{NameSpaces}
(namespace+=NameSpace)*;

NameSpace:
'Namespace' name=ID "{"
(query+=Query)*
"}";

Query:
//question: is the order of the elements fixed (desc, query, filter,...)
//or can the order vary (in which case unordered groups could be used

//separate the namespace from the name of the query because
//when calculating the fully qualified name of Query, the
//container (NameSpace) is automatically added
'Query' namespace=[NameSpace] ("." name=QualifiedName) "{"
(

//a description is mandatory?
("[" 'Description:' description=MYSTRING"]")
&
("[" 'Query:'queryName=[Query|QualifiedName]"]")?
&
("[" 'Filter:' filter+=Filter (',' filter+=Filter)*"]")?
&
//no return fragments yet
("[" 'Return:' return+=ReturnElement (',' return+=ReturnElement)* "]")?
&
("[" 'From:' from=[Table]
joinespression+=JoinExpression*
"]")?
&
("[" 'Where:' where=Where"]")?
&
("[" 'Order:' order+=Order (',' order+=Order)*"]")?

)
"}";

//I would like to use cross references for the filter, but there would
be some
//work involved referring to them without specifying the table name as well
Filter: column=ID (multi?='*')?;

ReturnElement: ref=[Column|QualifiedTableReference] ('As' asname=ID)?;

Where: column=[Column|QualifiedTableReference] (expression=WhereExpression);

//rather use references, same issue as in Filter
Order: column=ID (direction=Direction)?;
//the first element is the default one used, when
//nothing is specified
enum Direction: ascending="asc"|descending="desc";

//assigned actions might be the better alternative to
//handle the joins
JoinExpression: InnerJoinExpression|OuterJoinExpression;

InnerJoinExpression:
(optional?='Optional')? 'Inner' 'Join' jointablename=[Table]
"On" equals+=ColumnRefEqualsExpression
("And" equals+=ColumnRefEqualsExpression)*;

OuterJoinExpression:
('Optional')? 'Left' 'Join' jointablename=[Table]
"On" equals+=ColumnRefEqualsExpression
("And" equals+=ColumnEqualsExpression)*;

ColumnEqualsExpression:ColumnRefEqualsExpression|ColumnStrin gEqualsExpression;
ColumnRefEqualsExpression: left=[Column|QualifiedTableReference] '='
right=[Column|QualifiedTableReference];
ColumnStringEqualsExpression: left=[Column|QualifiedTableReference] '='
right=STRING;

WhereExpression:
IntCompareExpression|NullExpression|NotNullExpression|String EqualsExpression;

NullExpression: "is" "null"{NullExpression};
NotNullExpression: "is" "not" "null"{NotNullExpression};

IntCompareExpression: comparator=Comparator value=INT;
StringEqualsExpression: '=' value=STRING;
enum Comparator: equals = "="| greater=">"|less="<"|
lessequals="<="|greaterequals= ">=";

//you possibly have to add keywords to the list, otherwise a description
//cannot for example contain the word 'As'
MYSTRING hidden(): (ID|WS|INT|STRING|'not'|','|ANY_OTHER)*;
QualifiedName hidden():ID('.'ID)*;
QualifiedTableReference hidden():ID'.'ID;


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Re: How to get content assist to work with table names from a database [message #551805 is a reply to message #550632] Mon, 09 August 2010 15:27 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Thank you for all your explanations and your help. I appreciate your time and expertise. We should definitely be able to take it from here.
Re: How to get content assist to work with table names from a database [message #1332250 is a reply to message #551805] Sun, 04 May 2014 14:32 Go to previous message
Cristiane Huve is currently offline Cristiane HuveFriend
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Hi Pam,
Now i'm new as Xtext.
Could you send me your grammar.
I try to create a grammar with Hive Language and i think that is a similar situation that you develop.
Thanks if you can help me!
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