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MoDisco for annotation processing [message #639808]

Wed, 17 November 2010 21:32

Laurent Legrand

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Registered: November 2010
Location: France

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Hello,

I'm discovering MoDisco and I'm wondering if MoDisco could be used to do some Java annotation validation.

The idea is to first declare a Model Facet Set on top of the Java metamodel containing:
* A Facet will correspond to a Java annotation. For instance, for the Java annotation MyAnnotation, there will be a corresponding MyAnnotationFacet
* A Facet will extends EClass from the Java metamodel depending on the java.lang.annotation.Target specified on the Java annotation declaration. For instance, if MyAnnotation has Method as target, MyAnnotationFacet will extend MethodDeclaration.
* A FacetStructuralFeature will be declared for each property defined in the Java annotation
* ...

Once done, If I'm right, the Model Browser will highlight in a Java model the elements annotated with MyAnnotation thanks to MyAnnotationFacet.

But could I go a step further and use the faceted model (the virtual one on top of the Java model) for annotation validation in a project? Could I use an EMF based constraint language (OCL, Epsilon) to check rules against instances of classes defined in the Facet Set (I mean define rules using MyAnnotationFacet) ?

I hope my question makes sense.

Regards,

Laurent

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Re: MoDisco for annotation processing [message #639884 is a reply to message #639808]

Thu, 18 November 2010 09:22

Gregoire Dupe

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Registered: September 2009
Location: France

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Laurent Legrand wrote on Wed, 17 November 2010 16:32

This looks good.

Laurent Legrand wrote on Wed, 17 November 2010 16:32

But could I go a step further and use the faceted model (the virtual one on top of the Java model) for annotation validation in a project? Could I use an EMF based constraint language (OCL, Epsilon) to check rules against instances of classes defined in the Facet Set (I mean define rules using MyAnnotationFacet) ?

The only way to use the facets in a program is the MoDisco's Java API. (cf. http://wiki.eclipse.org/MoDisco/Components/FacetManager/Docu mentation/0.8#How_to_programmatically_use_the_MoDisco_facet_ set_catalog)

We plan to provide a mechanism to be able to use any languages next year (Juin 2012).

Regards,
Gregoire Dupe

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Re: MoDisco for annotation processing [message #640121 is a reply to message #639884]

Fri, 19 November 2010 08:40

Laurent Legrand

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Registered: November 2010
Location: France

Junior Member

Thanks for the answer.

Unfortunately, I will have to stick to Java annotation processors.

But what do you think of the approach?
do you think it is valuable or is it better to
* directly extending the Java metamodel
* applying a M2M (from a Java model to my model)
* and then verifying constraints?

Regards,

Laurent

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Re: MoDisco for annotation processing [message #640240 is a reply to message #640121]

Fri, 19 November 2010 18:04

Gregoire Dupe

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Registered: September 2009
Location: France

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Hi,

It should work. After you will have transformed the Java model to an extended Java model, you can then use MoDisco's queries, facets and customizations to visualize the constraint violations in the model browser.

Here are some presentations which contain examples which look like what you want to do:
http://fmadiot.blogspot.com/2010/11/eclipse-modeling-week.ht ml
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&i d=1173

Regards,
Gregoire

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