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Revision as of 10:24, 24 May 2017
Contents
Model Query Evaluation
- Better compatibility with incorrect notifications, e.g. duplicate delete events: strict mode in Base
bug 514525 - Dangling edges bug 512752
Code generator updates
For users targeting other environment than Eclipse plug-ins, it is now possible to disallow the updating of MANIFEST.MF and plugin.xml files. The bundle manifest is updated to ensure all packages that contain query specifications are exported, while plugin.xml files are used by the query specification registry to load all patterns during runtimes.
This setting is available as a workspace-level preference or a per-project setting. By default, these settings are turned on (so both files are updated on each build), maintaining compatibility with previous releases.
The other major change relates to the handling of private patterns. Given private patterns are not expected to be used outside calling them from patterns in the same vql file, the generated code does not need all the type-safe wrappers generated. However, to make private patterns testable using the query test API, the generated QuerySpecification classes were moved to a dedicated package were they could be made public without exporting them to all users of the query bundles.
Resource mapping support in Maven generator
You can now specify the location of metamodels referred to via platform:/resource URIs with the uriMappings configuration element. See this wiki page for more details. bug 507748
Query Test Framework updates
- New customization options, e.g. EMF Scope, general Java comparison support, see bug 506498, bug 513147 and bug 513391
- Query test coverage can be measured and reported, see the feature's documentation for details.
Documentation updates
To make it easier to get started with VIATRA, a tutorial is added that presents an example for query and transformation development. In order to make the tutorial available for even more users, this documentation is also included in the platform help.
A few error messages in the query editor related to enumerable and non-enumerable references had been reported to hard to understand. In this version the error messages have been updated, and a quick fix was also added that updates a detailed explanation for the message. In future versions we plan to extend this support to make other error messages more understandable.
GEF5-based visualization
The Zest-based graph visualization components (Rete visualizer, Local search debugger and the graph visualization support of Viewers) was updated to rely on the latest GEF version 5.0 (available with Eclipse Oxygen). As GEF5 depends on JavaFX and e(fx)clipse, they have to be available in the runtime.