Difference between revisions of "Xtext Project Plan"

Revision as of 08:31, 2 July 2008

Milestone 1 (due 2008-05-09)

• Bootstrapping

Milestone 2 (due 2008-05-23)

• build process
• error handling in parser and lexer
• support for mixing of imported and generated meta models
• Basic Editor
• parse tree
• parse tree / contains whitespace
• parse tree / reconstruction / bi-directionality
• EMF Resource API adaption

Milestone 3 (due 2008-06-06)

• build process
• error handling in parser and lexer
• language inheritance
• service registry framework
• value converter (i.e. arbitrary Datatypes for lexer rules)
• generator model
• (UI) syntax coloring - Syntax highlighting
• (UI) Preferences
• (UI) Outline
• (UI) Content assist (define interface, integrate Michael)

Milestone 4 (due 2008-06-20)

• use commons logging
  • adapt commons logging to Eclipse's log/trace API (errors go to error log and console, everything else goes to console (std.out) only)
  • see http://www.eclipsezone.com/articles/franey-logging/ for more info
• more Junit tests
• build process
• refactor genmodel (remove GenClass and GenPlugin)
• remove singleton services registration

Milestone 5 (due 2008-07-04)

• partial parsing
• tests and UI use resource API
• GrammarAccess contains accessors to parser and lexer rules
• first draft of content assist - Content assist
• Formatting (partial too) - Code formatting
• Hover Info - Hovering
• Adapt EValidator in UI

Milestone 6 (due 2008-07-18)

• syntactic predicates
• semantic predicates
• Parsetree reconstructor (denormalize CompositeNodes)
• Folding
• Preference page

Features to be implemented

Runtime

• description of lexer rules
• cross-references
• referencing files
• Enum rules
• generated checks based on the grammar
• grammar inheritance (having built-in rules defined in a common super grammar)
• fragments
• migration grammars (i.e. support for automatic migration of old syntaxes, e.g. MWE xml syntax)

Tooling

see Xtext Project Plan/Features/Tooling