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Hi there, actually, I just noticed that ST *is* able to pull properties (in the C# or Java beans sense) into the template, which it obviously done through reflection. That way, I am already able to use any kind of model expressed in for form of bean-like metamodel classes... Love it. Mike Mike Pagel schrieb: Hi Oliver, you are right, this is what I want to do achieve, but: I was wondering whether this could be done the ANTLR way, i.e. through grammars and ST templates, instead of using a whole different templating mechanism.One of the main reasons I am after this is that my platform is actually not Java but C#, for which XPAND is not available. The Microsoft template engine T4 from their DSL tools is still in a pretty early state, so... since there is ANTLR with a C# target and ST#, I was trying to see whether you could select model fragments declaratively through a grammar and then emit templates from it. Would be pretty cool I think. Of course, the model is already much like an AST so what you'd need is something like a tree grammar to walk the model. Best, Mike Oliver Zeigermann schrieb:I think what you were looking for is not Xtext, but raher Xpand2: http://www.eclipse.org/gmt/oaw/doc/4.3/html/contents/core_reference.html#xpand_reference_introduction which allows you to generate code from models (there are different types of models you can use). Especially, you can use EMF models based on XMI exported by many UML tools. Xtext instead allows you to define a simple grammar and generates a - meta model, - parser, and - graphical editor based on Eclipse RCP Cheers Oliver 2008/12/4 Arnulf Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:Xtext is a good example of an open source tool that translates models into code using ANTLR http://wiki.eclipse.org/Xtext it's part of openArchitectureWare http://www.openarchitectureware.org/ which in turn is part of topcased (I think): http://topcased.gforge.enseeiht.fr/ At 00:14 04.12.2008, Mike Pagel wrote:Hi there, first of all: I am pretty new to ANTLR and to this mailing list. I did search the archive for information but could not find anything addressing my question. If it's in there, just send the link, please... Now: I am coming from a modeling (UML-like, graphical DSLs) background, where you typically design the abstract syntax of a language in form of a meta-model consisting of meta-classes, their attributes and relations among each other. I have used a number of code generators before but I am wondering whether ANTLR can also generate code from models (=meta-model instances). By this I mean by using grammars similar to how ASTs are walked in a tree grammar. Does something like this already exist? That way you could also generate code from business objects (POJOs) through reflection... Any input and direction is welcome. If this is something not done/possible so far I might try and explore this route a bit. Thanks a lot, Mike List: http://www.antlr.org:8080/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest Unsubscribe: http://www.antlr.org:8080/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your-email-addressList: http://www.antlr.org:8080/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest Unsubscribe: http://www.antlr.org:8080/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your-email-addressList: http://www.antlr.org:8080/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest Unsubscribe: http://www.antlr.org:8080/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your-email-address --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "il-antlr-interest" group. To post to this group, send email to il-antlr-interest@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/il-antlr-interest?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- |
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