OCL-based findOrCreate (#97)

[StephanErb]

Parsing a correct syntax have to be error free. If not an error have to be generate as an Exception. In the modular version of FURCAS(Diplomarbeit) i have to parse a syntax that import a template in an another syntax. But a template has also keywords and symbols that have to be imported. Commenting the symbols in the imported syntax solve (first) the symbol problem but not the keyword problem.
To solve this problem, i have changed in EcoreModelElementFinder.java the exception given when the resultSet size > 1 to a simple System.error message. Just to have a workaround. A real solution would get rid of the createIfMissing construct currently used in TCS.tcs for the creation of keywords and replace it with an OCL based solution.

[StephanErb]

Thomas Goldschmidt ([email protected]) wrote on 2011-02-22 12:47:10

What Christain actually wanted to express with this bug report is that we need to have something like "findOrCreate" as it is currently done using the autoCreate features also for a more OCL based version of the FURCAS mapping language. so that we can get rid of the autoCreate=IfMissing construct which currently relies on the odd "elements in context" stuff.
 
As an example see how keywords are handled in TCS.tcs:
template TCS::LiteralRef
                :
                        referredLiteral{refersTo = value, lookIn = #all, as = stringSymbol, autoCreate = ifmissing, createAs = FURCAS::TCS::Keyword}
                        {{ parentTemplate = lookIn("OCL:#context") }}
                ;