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[Acceleo] Can Acceleo do something like JET's c:dump [message #672255]

Fri, 20 May 2011 13:11

Ronan B

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Registered: July 2009

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Hi,
I'm an Acceleo noob. I'm looking to use it as a replacement for some of our simpler JET templates to get a feel for the language/environment.

My question is can Acceleo do something similar to the JET c:dump whereby on a template match the exact input and its contents can be transferred to the output. My use case is an Ecore/XML model is the input and I want todo some minor manipulations on the outer most element before directly copying the inner contents to the output text model. This is quite easy in JET.

I see Acceleo supports "Generation Patterns" but this isn't exactly what I had in mind as this exposes all my metamodel to the M2T transform making maintenance an issue.

Thanks!
Ronan

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Re: [Acceleo] Can Acceleo do something like JET's c:dump [message #673299 is a reply to message #672255]

Mon, 23 May 2011 07:30

Stephane Begaudeau

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Registered: April 2010
Location: Nantes (France)

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Hi Ronan,

Acceleo does not have something similar to the JET c:dump, you could always try to use some Java services to get the content of the XML of your model but since they are no equivalent in Acceleo, you won't find a "nice" solution to this very specific problem.

Stephane Begaudeau, Obeo
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