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[Xtend/Xpand] Encoding problem [message #557327]

Mon, 06 September 2010 18:25

Volker Wegert

Messages: 182
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hello all,

I've got a problem with an Xtend/Xpand project that ocurred only after
migrating to Eclipse HELIOS and upgrading the M2T components accordingly. The
project in question consists of a standalone application that contains the
workflow and template files embedded in a plug-in. The workflow is called
programmatically from within the running application (that was itself launched
from Eclipse) and - since the migration - invariably aborts with the error "no
viable alternative at input 'Â' on line 1.". The workspace default encoding is
set to UTF-8, and I've checked that the file is set to respect the workspace
default encoding. I've double-checked with a hex editor that the file is
indeed UTF-8 encoded. From the error message I guess that some component reads
the UTF-8 file as ISO-8859-1(5). I've tried to set the file encoding in the
workflow file using <fileEncoding value="UTF-8"/>, but that didn't change
anything. What else could I try?

Thanks
Volker Wegert

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Re: [Xtend/Xpand] Encoding problem [message #557331 is a reply to message #557327]

Mon, 06 September 2010 19:26

Christian Dietrich

Messages: 14665
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi,

how did you set the encoding? did you set it as the docs tell?

<component class="org.eclipse.xpand2.Generator">
 <metaModel idRef="mm_emf"/>
 <expand
  value="template::Template::main FOR model" />
 <outlet path="${src-gen}" >
  <postprocessor class="org.eclipse.xpand2.output.JavaBeautifier" />
 </outlet>
 <resourceManager class ="org.eclipse.xtend.expression.ResourceManagerDefaultImpl">
  <fileEncoding value="UTF-8"/>
 </resourceManager>
</component>

~Christian

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[Updated on: Mon, 06 September 2010 19:39]

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Re: [Xtend/Xpand] Encoding problem [message #557767 is a reply to message #557331]

Wed, 08 September 2010 19:04

Volker Wegert

Messages: 182
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Christian,

thanks for the info.

Christian Dietrich <christian.dietrich@itemis.de> writes:
> <component class="org.eclipse.xpand2.Generator">
> <metaModel idRef="mm_emf"/>
> <expand
> value="template::Template::main FOR model" />
> <outlet path="${src-gen}" >
> <postprocessor class="org.eclipse.xpand2.output.JavaBeautifier" />
> </outlet>
> <resourceManager class ="org.eclipse.xtend.expression.ResourceManagerDefaultImpl">
> <fileEncoding value="ISO-8859-1"/>
> </resourceManager>
> </component>

No, I did it the way the example in the online help shows (Xpand --> Reference -->
XPand / ... Reference --> Xpand2 --> Generator Workflow Component) - that is,
placing the <fileEncoding directly beneath the <component. Your way of
specifying the encoding worked, so maybe the other documentation needs an
update?

And btw, I wonder whether there's something wrong with the chapter and tree
structure of the AOP section of the documentation - it looks rather weird...

Volker

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