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Model not being generated after plugin rename [message #987856]

Wed, 28 November 2012 12:11

Christopher Brind

Messages: 9
Registered: October 2011

Junior Member

Not long after first generating the plugins for our grammar we renamed them as they didn't fit in with our naming convention. For example we went from:

com.example.project.lang.grammar

to:

com.example.project.lang

Ever since then, when we "Generate Xtext artifacts" it no longer create a Java model for the grammar. However, it does create a genmodel and if we manually "generate model" from that, it seems to work just fine.

I've tried various things like tinkering with the workflow and even debugged the entire workflow, but to be honest that didn't help and I just ended up a bit lost.

The obvious fix to try is to go back to the old name for the plugins, but a) that might not work and b) seems a little restrictive.

There will come a point where we don't have to work on the DSL any more so it will become less of a pain, but at the moment we are rapidly developing the DSL and it is causing pain for developers on the team.

Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

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Re: Model not being generated after plugin rename [message #987879 is a reply to message #987856]

Wed, 28 November 2012 13:39

Ed Willink

Messages: 7655
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi

Have you checked that MANIFEST.MF and plugin.xml have been manually
updated from their *_gen counterparts?

Regards

Ed Willink

On 28/11/2012 12:11, Christopher Brind wrote:
> Not long after first generating the plugins for our grammar we renamed
> them as they didn't fit in with our naming convention. For example we
> went from:
>
> com.example.project.lang.grammar
>
> to:
>
> com.example.project.lang
>
> Ever since then, when we "Generate Xtext artifacts" it no longer
> create a Java model for the grammar. However, it does create a
> genmodel and if we manually "generate model" from that, it seems to
> work just fine.
>
> I've tried various things like tinkering with the workflow and even
> debugged the entire workflow, but to be honest that didn't help and I
> just ended up a bit lost.
>
> The obvious fix to try is to go back to the old name for the plugins,
> but a) that might not work and b) seems a little restrictive.
> There will come a point where we don't have to work on the DSL any
> more so it will become less of a pain, but at the moment we are
> rapidly developing the DSL and it is causing pain for developers on
> the team.
>
> Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

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