org.eclipse.xtext.generator

Interface IGenerator2

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractGenerator, GeneratorDelegate

public interface IGenerator2

Replacement interface for the IGenerator that adds support for parallel code generation. Clients of IGenerator that want to perform the code generation in the background will check for this extension interface and use beforeGenerate(Resource, IFileSystemAccess2, IGeneratorContext) to prepare the resource set. That is, implementors may alter the state of the resource set in the before hook. This may happen implicitly by resolving proxies or explicitly by loading new resources into the resource set. No changes are allowed while doGenerate(Resource, IFileSystemAccess2, IGeneratorContext) is executed since this may be parallelized by the caller. The afterGenerate(Resource, IFileSystemAccess2, IGeneratorContext) is used to cleanup state. Also access to the file system is guaranteed to be synchronous in the before and after hook.

Since:

2.9

Author:

Sebastian Zarnekow - Initial contribution and API

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	afterGenerate(org.eclipse.emf.ecore.resource.Resource input, IFileSystemAccess2 fsa, IGeneratorContext context) Release any data that is no longer necessary after the generator ran.
void	beforeGenerate(org.eclipse.emf.ecore.resource.Resource input, IFileSystemAccess2 fsa, IGeneratorContext context) Before the generation is triggered, the resource or the entire resource set may be prepared such that no modification will happen while doGenerate(Resource, IFileSystemAccess2, IGeneratorContext) is executed.
void	doGenerate(org.eclipse.emf.ecore.resource.Resource input, IFileSystemAccess2 fsa, IGeneratorContext context) Perform the code generation for the given input resource.

Method Detail

doGenerate

void doGenerate(org.eclipse.emf.ecore.resource.Resource input,
              IFileSystemAccess2 fsa,
              IGeneratorContext context)

Perform the code generation for the given input resource. Any number of files may be created or modified. Write operations to the given file system access may be processed asynchronous and are non-blocking if the given fsa is implementing that pattern. Read operations will happen in the background but are blocking.

beforeGenerate

void beforeGenerate(org.eclipse.emf.ecore.resource.Resource input,
                  IFileSystemAccess2 fsa,
                  IGeneratorContext context)

Before the generation is triggered, the resource or the entire resource set may be prepared such that no modification will happen while doGenerate(Resource, IFileSystemAccess2, IGeneratorContext) is executed.

afterGenerate

void afterGenerate(org.eclipse.emf.ecore.resource.Resource input,
                 IFileSystemAccess2 fsa,
                 IGeneratorContext context)

Release any data that is no longer necessary after the generator ran. This is guaranteed to be called if beforeGenerate(Resource, IFileSystemAccess2, IGeneratorContext) was called. It may be called several times. It may be called even if beforeGenerate(Resource, IFileSystemAccess2, IGeneratorContext) was not called.