Xtext Project Plan

M1 (May 9, 2008)

• Bootstrapping

M2 (May 23, 2008)

• build process (Jan)
• error handling in parser and lexer
• support for mixing of imported and generated meta models
• File:OK green Basic Editor (Dennis / Peter)
• 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 - Preferences
• (UI) Outline - Outline
• (UI) Content assist (define interface, integrate Michael) - Content assist

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
• (UI) Token type definition

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
• (UI) Formatting (partial too) - Code formatting
• (UI) Hover Info - Hovering
• (UI) Adapt EValidator in UI

Milestone 6 (due 2008-07-18)

• validation whether models are serializable
• Parsetree reconstructor (denormalize CompositeNodes)
• (UI) Folding - Folding
• (UI) Preference page - Preferences
• make service framework independent of xtext ui/core
• Outline View improved
• Template proposals
• Content Assist improved
• build process

Milestone 7 (due 2008-08-01)

• cross-referencing
• identification of EObjects (fragments)
• referencing files
• Wizard Framework

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Features to be implemented

Runtime

• syntactic predicates
• semantic predicates
• description of lexer rules
• Enum rules
• 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)
• overwrite default parse error messages / improve default messages

Tooling

see Xtext Project Plan/Features/Tooling