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Adding Property to EMF Objects Dynamically [message #1385051]

Wed, 04 June 2014 02:13

Kunal Khaware

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Location: Hyderabad,India

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Hi,

I want to add a property to EMF Object Dynamically for eg, if we have a grammar below :

Model:
greetings+=Greeting*;
Greeting:
'Hello' name=ID '!';

After EMF classes is generated, I want to add another property lets say greetingID to
Greeting Class at runtime. Is there any way to do achieve this ?

Cheers

Kunal

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Re: Adding Property to EMF Objects Dynamically [message #1385053 is a reply to message #1385051]

Wed, 04 June 2014 04:26

Christian Dietrich

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http://christiandietrich.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/customizing-xtext-met
amodel-inference-using-xtend2/

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Re: Adding Property to EMF Objects Dynamically [message #1385054 is a reply to message #1385051]

Wed, 04 June 2014 04:35

Christian Dietrich

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P.s. and for actually setting it you could use iderivedstatecomputer
BTW what is your actual/real usecase

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Re: Adding Property to EMF Objects Dynamically [message #1385055 is a reply to message #1385054]

Wed, 04 June 2014 05:02

Kunal Khaware

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Hi Christian,
Thanks for the reply. My Actual/Real Use Case is I want to assign a property Id to each of my EMF Classes and that property should not be part of grammar ie it should not be displayed in Xtext editor . In other sense, I want a variable in Xtext Grammar and it should not be accessible in Xtext Editor but it can be accessed via generated EMF Classes.

Cheers

Kunal

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Re: Adding Property to EMF Objects Dynamically [message #1385064 is a reply to message #1385055]

Wed, 04 June 2014 07:12

Lorenzo Bettini

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Location: Firenze, Italy

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On 04/06/2014 07:02, Kunal Khaware wrote:
> Hi Christian,
> Thanks for the reply. My Actual/Real Use Case is I want to assign a
> property Id to each of my EMF Classes and that property should not be
> part of grammar ie it should not be displayed in Xtext editor . In other
> sense, I want a variable in Xtext Grammar and it should not be
> accessible in Xtext Editor but it can be accessed via generated EMF
> Classes.

Hi

you need to swtich to a custom Ecore first (see, e.g.,
http://www.lorenzobettini.it/2014/02/switching-from-an-inferred-ecore-model-to-an-imported-one-in-your-xtext-grammar/
) and then you can add the additional field as "transient" so that it
won't be serialized when you save the file (it won't be shown in the
editor either).

cheers
Lorenzo

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