EMF Compare/Specifications/EnhanceReadabilityOfTheStructuralDifferences

Evolution Specification: Enhance readability of the structural differences

Current status is DRAFT

Preamble

The difference labels displayed in the structure merge viewer can be quite difficult to read and understand.

_Relevant tickets_ (links to the Bugzilla tickets which are related to the change):

• Bug 398099 - Enhance readability of the structural differences

Introduction

Add some styling to these label to more easily identify:

• if the difference is local or remote,
• the difference kind (addition, change, deletion, move),
• the structural feature affected by the change,
• the label of the element that has changed.

For this purpose, styled texts will be used in the label provider.

Detailed Specification

Here is the new version of the labels:

On each node, the data displayed are: object_name [property_affected type_of_difference]

• The object name: the object concerned by the difference (e.g. class, attribute, reference...)
• The property affected: the property of the object concerned by the difference.
• The type of difference: the type of difference found on the property affected (e.g. add, remove, delete, set, unset, move or change)