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[Acceleo] Overriding templates (provided by an installed plugin) in a dev project [message #666743] Fri, 22 April 2011 06:39 Go to next message
Martin Taal is currently offline Martin TaalFriend
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Hi,
I want to achieve the following:
- I provide templates through a plugin, this plugin makes it possible for people to right click on an ecore file and
generate some code. This plugin is installed inside eclipse.
- A user has a development project with a model (an ecore file), in a templates folder he/she overrides one of my
templates provided through the plugin installed in the IDE
- the user sets the extension point for dynamic overrides and adds the installed plugin as a dependency

What will happen when the user right clicks the model file and select the menu option I provide to generate code? I
mean, will Acceleo find the overriding template in the users development project?

Did I miss a setting which can be important, or is it fine as I describe it above?

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Re: [Acceleo] Overriding templates (provided by an installed plugin) in a dev project [message #666749 is a reply to message #666743] Fri, 22 April 2011 07:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Stephane Begaudeau is currently offline Stephane BegaudeauFriend
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Hi Martin,

The overriding templates need to be in an installed plugin. The project being in the workspace, its extension points are not registered in the current Eclipse instance and thus are not accessible for your Acceleo generator deployed as a plugin.

Stephane Begaudeau, Obeo
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Re: [Acceleo] Overriding templates (provided by an installed plugin) in a dev project [message #666774 is a reply to message #666749] Fri, 22 April 2011 12:27 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Martin Taal is currently offline Martin TaalFriend
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Okay this won't work for me, is there another way I can override change the template import process of Acceleo? So that
I can read the templates from another place?

I mean my logic knows that there are templates located in a certain folder, can it force acceleo to import/read them
(and their emtl) files?

gr. Martin

On 04/22/2011 09:45 AM, Stephane Begaudeau wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> The overriding templates need to be in an installed plugin. The project being in the workspace, its extension points are
> not registered in the current Eclipse instance and thus are not accessible for your Acceleo generator deployed as a plugin.
>
> Stephane Begaudeau, Obeo
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>


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Re: [Acceleo] Overriding templates (provided by an installed plugin) in a dev project [message #667059 is a reply to message #666743] Tue, 26 April 2011 15:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Stephane Begaudeau is currently offline Stephane BegaudeauFriend
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Hi Martin,

I mean my logic knows that there are templates located in a certain folder, can it force acceleo to import/read them (and their emtl) files?


The dynamic module mechanism will only work with deployed Eclipse plugin but if you know where your modules are, you just have to load them (ModelUtils.load) in the resource set containing the modules of your generator.

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Re: [Acceleo] Overriding templates (provided by an installed plugin) in a dev project [message #667539 is a reply to message #666743] Fri, 29 April 2011 12:54 Go to previous message
Stephane Begaudeau is currently offline Stephane BegaudeauFriend
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Hi Martin,

It seems that my answer was incomplete. You should look at org.eclipse.acceleo.engine.service.AcceleoDynamicTemplatesRe gistry. If you want to programmatically contribute dynamic modules.

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