CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is loosely based on Keep a Changelog. The project does not follow Semantic Versioning and the changes are simply documented in reverse chronological order, grouped by calendar month.

December 2024

com.mbeddr.mpsutil

Fixed

• Updated GeneratorFacade helper class to support execution of genplans with Transform steps that have multiple entries (migrated from the old, deprecated languages list) which have to be executed all together in one single generation step.
• Breaking: The language com.mbeddr.mpsutil.httsupport was removed. Please use jetbrains.mps.ide.httpsupport instead.

November 2024

com.mbeddr.mpsutil

Added

• A new language com.mbeddr.mpsutil.collections was added that adds support for a set type nset that use nodes as the values of the set. Equivalence of nodes is checked structurally. The hash code calculation is done for all properties and children and the first level of references. The runtime solution also contains a more general class EquivalenceHashSet to implement hashsets with arbitrary equals and hashcode methods.

Changes

• The language com.mbeddr.spreadsheat was renamed to com.mbeddr.spreadsheet.

Removed

• The language com.mbeddr.mpsutil.projectview.favourites was removed. Please use the MPS bookmarks manager instead: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/mps/navigating-through-the-source-code.html#use_bookmarks
• The stub solution org.apache.batik were removed. Please use de.itemis.stubs.batik from MPS-Extensions instead.
• The stub solution org.xml were removed. Please use de.itemis.stubs.xml from MPS-Extensions instead.

October 2024

com.mbeddr.mpsutil

Added

• Adds a caching mechanism for caching the retrieval of 'ILogicalChild' by 'ILogicalChildOwner'

com.mbeddr.core.base

• Diagrams are not auto-layouted before taking a screenshot.

com.mbeddr.mpsutil.ecore

Fixed

• Some unncessary dependencies were removed from com.mbeddr.mpsutil.ecore.stubs.

September 2024

• Breaking change: debugger and spawner were not maintained and were removed.

com.mbeddr.mpsutil.interpreter

Added

• Added user defineable call back function when trace node is added to the trace tree

com.mbeddr.mpsutil.conceptdiagram

Fixed

• The auto-layout on init flag is now working correctly.

com.mbeddr.mpsutil.actionsfilter

Fixed

• The preference component now shows the actively loaded profile correctly.

com.mbeddr.mpsutil.checkinHandler

Added

• A new kind of Checkin handlers (background handler) now support the interface CommitCheck which allows more options like running the code after the commit or in the background.

com.mbeddr.mpsutil.margincell

Fixed

• When the attached cell can't be found (e.g. it is collapsed), the next suitable anchestor cell is now used to align the margin cell.

com.mbeddr.mpsutil.ecore

Fixed

• The handling of enumeration properties by the Ecore importer/exporter has been improved, esp. if and how default literals are persisted on MPS and EMF side.

August 2024

com.mbeddr.platform

Added

• A new language com.mbeddr.mpsutil.checkinHandler was added that can be used to execute pre-commit handlers which can approve or reject commits or execute arbitrary code before the checkin happens.

Removed

• The tests build script (com.mbeddr.platform.tests.ts.build) is no longer part of the com.mbeddr.platform build solution.

com.mbeddr.rcp, com.mbeddr.allInOne

Removed

• RCP, installer, and all-in-one distribution was removed.

com.mbeddr.mpsutil.traceExplorer

Added

• Added trace explorer option to decorate nodes with values of evaluated counterparts, which are not part of the model.

Changed

• Added method to interface ITraceRecord

July 2024

com.mbeddr.analyses

Removed

• The complete com.mbeddr.analyses project (integration with static checkers for C) was removed as it was unmaintained and apparently no longer used.

com.mbeddr.mpsutil.comparator

Added

• In addition to some null checks, node annotations can now be compared and also children of references. The node difference descriptions were also improved.

June 2024

General

• Some classloading issues with stubs were fixed.

com.mbeddr.mpsutil

Deprecated

• The language com.mbeddr.mpsutil.favourites was deprecated in favor of the builtin MPS bookmark manager. See: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/mps/navigating-through-the-source-code.html#use_bookmarks

com.mbeddr.mpsutil.conceptdiagram

Fixed

• The usability of the language was improved and buttons were added to automatically populate a diagram. Auto-layout on init and saving the layout information can also be customized. The diagrams are now also more compact.

Added

• A new option was added to supported automatically populating the diagram based on the declared language or the language that the diagram is contained in.

May 2024

com.mbeddr.core

Added

• The image aspect ratio is now kept when scaling the image in the presentation mode down to the maximum size.
• Antialising is now activated for images displayed in the presentation mode.

com.mbeddr.mpsutil

Added

• A new generic class Traversal<T> is provided. It allows to do breadth-first traversals on data structures like graphs or trees. It is robust against cycles.

April 2024

com.mbeddr.core

Added

• Base: Added possibility to explicitly not display roots of concept IMbeddrIDERoot in mbeddr menus.

com.mbeddr.doc.aspect.ui

Fixed

• A null pointer was fixed that was related to showing the documentation when the documentation tab is not opened.
• The documentation Tool is now only updated when the selection changed.
• com.mbeddr.mpsutil.compare: the diff preview feature now also works in external classes and not only test cases.

com.mbeddr.mpsutil

Fixed

• An initialization issue related to the context actions tool was fixed.
• EditingGuide: ProgramFragments support error suppression, i.e. all model-checking errors are suppressed in ProgramFragments, so modelchecker will disregard them and not clutter.
• EditingGuide: Fragment module depends on its original module, to access data that is needed, but in the original module and not copied to the temporary exercise model.
• Hyperlink: HyperlinkUtil.openInBrowser() behaves like no-op instead of raising an exception on null or empty URLs.
• Asynccell: Stops polling for the calculated value in case the poll-request throws an exception and shows to the user, that the calculation has failed together with the thrown exception, instead of spamming the log on each poll with the exception.

Added

• The comparator language now supports a diff tool that can be activated through the show diff checkbox.

Changes

• The interface IIsDocumentationComment is now integrated into the MPS TODO window and the old mbeddr todo viewer was completely removed.

March 2024

com.mbeddr.mpsutil

Added

• Interpreters now support data flow analysis.
• Action profiles now support priorities if multiple profiles are activated by default.

Fixed

• Some small issues with the action profiles were fixed as well.

com.mbeddr.doc

Added

• When embedding a documentation section or model content as image, the inspector can now be rendered instead of the editor.

Fixed

• Many usability were fixed and the editors (including presentation mode) polished.
• Higher level of nesting in sections is now support by all generators.
• PlantUML was updated to PlantUML to v1.2023.13 EPL version (regression bug).

January 2024

com.mbeddr.mpsutils

Changed

• A dummy computation trace is now used when the computation trace is not available in the interpreter to prevent NullPointerExceptions.
• Referenced actions in action profiles now emit a warning when they can't be found.

com.mbeddr.doc

Changed

• The Java library xmlbeans of the spreadsheet language was upgraded from version 2.6.0 to 4.0.0
• The Java library Apache Poi of the spreadsheet language was upgraded from 2.6.0 to 5.0.0

Removed

• The deprecated language com.mbeddr.mpsutil.coverage.emma was removed. As a replacement, the JaCoCo code coverage integration from mbeddr/mps-qa can be used (more information).

Added

• The removed language com.mbeddr.mpsutil.nodediff was added back since the MPS action can only compare root nodes and not arbitrary nodes.

December 2023

General

• The project was relicensed from EPL 1.0 to EPL 2.0 and PlantUML was updated to PlantUML to v1.2023.13 EPL version.

com.mbeddr.doc

Fixed

• The escaping of the new line character works again.

com.mbeddr.mpsutils

Changed

• Enhanced TraceExplorer to hide toolbar buttons.

Removed

• The language com.mbeddr.mpsutil.lantest was removed since it isn't fully working anymore.

com.mbeddr.core.base

Changed

• Assessement result entries with invalid references are now automatically removed.
• The cell editor screenshooter doesn't trim the offset of the editor component anymore.

Fixed

• The cell editor screenshooter now supports editor extensions and the rendering quality was slightly improved.

com.mbeddr.core.base.intentions

• Fix the issue where the documentation annotation interferes with other annotations.

November 2023

com.mbeddr.doc

Changed

• Enhanced generateScreenshots to support multiple output models (forks in genplans).

com.mbeddr.mpsutils

Changed

• Enhanced TraceExplorer to allow custom filters on trace nodes, choose filters by menu and stores and can restore a manually unfolded trees.
• The language will no longer attempt to generate screenshots when run from an MpsEnvironment (i.e. the <generate> Ant task) but will instead output a warning. Use mps-gradle-plugin, mps-build-backends, MPS tests, or other means to run the MPS make process in an IDEA environment.
• plantuml was upgraded to v1.2023.12.

Fixed

• When actionsfilter was enabled, MPS will no longer display an error saying that settings could not be saved.

October 2023

com.mbeddr.mpsutils

Changed

• Added possibility to update the ToolWindow contents of context action 2 even if the Window is not visible.

com.mbeddr.doc.aspect

Added

• For documentation annotations of concepts there is a new flag override children in the inspector. It allows to show the document of a node even if the currently selected child node would have its own documentation.
• By default, this new behavior is switched off. The documentationAspectConfiguration extension point now has a configuration option allowOverrideChildren which has to be set to true in order to use the override functionality.
• A cache has been added to speed up the look-up and display of concept-specific documentation in the documentation view.

September 2023

com.mbeddr.doc.aspect

Changed

• The aspect documentation now can handle solution-level documentation as well and is not limited to extending languages.

com.mbeddr.core

Changed

• Improved the assessment editor to better separate individual assessments in an assessment container.

June 2023

com.mbeddr.doc.aspect

Fixed

• Concept SectRefWord, i.e. @sect[a section]: It was only possible to open a referenced section in the same Document by clicking the section-link in the documentation-tool-window. With this change it's possible to open a referenced section from another Document in the same model.

• Concept DocRefWord, i.e. @doc[a document]: The reference to another Document was not shown as a reference/link in the documentation-tool-window. It would also not open the referenced Document on click. By adding a special editor, similar to SectRefWord, document references are now perceived as references/links and open the referenced documentation, scrolled to the top, on click on the DocRefWord.

July 2023

The following languages/plugins were removed:

• com.mbeddr.mpsutil.testScope (superseded by MPS test scopes)
• com.mbeddr.mpsutil.runconfiguration (the workaround is included in MPS nowadays)
• com.mbeddr.mpsutil.rcpconfig (an internal module that is not needed anymore)
• com.mbeddr.mpsutil.nodediff (replacement: selected two nodes in the logical view, right-click -> Compare two nodes)
• com.mbeddr.mpsutil.licensemanager.common (an internal module that is not needed anymore)
• com.mbeddr.mpsutil.langstats (not very useful, was never meant as a productive language)
• com.mbeddr.mpsutil.gradlesupport (incomplete; use the language com.dslfoundry.plaintextgen from MPS-extensions instead)
• com.mbeddr.mpsutil.buildutil (an internal module that is not needed anymore)
• com.mbeddr.mpsutil.forms (experimental language that was never completed)

May 2023

mbeddr.core

Update mbeddr.core languages to MPS version 2022.2

build.gradle

• use jbr 17 instead of jbr 11
• download jbr with mps gradle plugin

com.mbeddr.mpsutil

Fixed

• com.mbeddr.mpsutil.smodule.runtime.lib.ModelHelper#createModel() method (used to implement the addModel operation of language com.mbeddr.mpsutil.smodule) no longer deadlocks when run from EDT.

April 2023

com.mbeddr.doc

Fixed

• @doc[some document] causes broken build unless a "some document" was also used in include.

March 2023

com.mbeddr.mpsutil

Changed

• c.m.m.xml.fix: Go back to the old behavior of escaping all special characters in the text. There is an XMLExtension point which can be used to revert this change.

com.mbeddr.doc

Fixed

• Resource editor by default uses forward slashes instead of platform-specific forward and backward slashes

General

Fixed

• Don't throw exceptions when the output path doesn't exist.

Changed

com.mbeddr.mpsutil.conceptdiagram

• Run auto layout on init for the diagrams.

com.mbeddr.mpsutil.filepicker

Fixed

• Fix freeze when opening the filepicker.

com.mbeddr.doc

Fixed

• Make the "documents" annotation deletable.
• Fix generation of references in the text.

Added

• Support previewing gifs with image paragraphs.

com.mbeddr.doc.aspect

Added

• There is a new extensions point DocumentationAspectConfiguration with a method showReferenceConceptDocumentation. When the method is set to true, the documentation for the reference's concept is shown and not the referenced node (this is the old standard behavior).

Fixed

com.mbeddr.mpsutil.hyperlink

Fixed

• Fix issues with loading and unloading the language.

com.mbeddr.analyses

• Fix exception + adjust fonts in analyses results tool

Fixed

com.mbeddr.core.base

Fixed

• Fix layout issues caused by missing style in CRHelperCell

com.mbeddr.mpsutil.logicalChild

Added

• Added two interfaces: ILogicalChild and ILogicalChildOwner to define child relation between nodes in different roots.

February 2023

com.mbeddr.mpsutil

Changed

• c.m.m.xml.fix: in 2021.3.2 the jetbrains.mps.core.xml language escapes the generated XML automatically and the escaping functionality of xml.fix is no longer necessary and is removed. However, the auto-escaping contains a bug in 2021.3 (fixed in 2022.2) where " is incorrectly escaped as " and a new workaround is introduced for this bug.
• Documentation: replace ModuleIdentity with ModulePointer in ModuleRefWord. This was a deprecated concept.

Fixed

• Datepicker: Fix entering dates in the datepicker field (#1359).
• Trace explorer: don't try to highlight a node when there is no node in the tool.
• Trace explorer: Fix exception that occured when the rerun button is pressed when there is no trace.
• Fix exception NullPointer: Cannot create configurable in userstyles language.
• json: Added paste and import action for json snippets and files.

com.mbeddr.core.base

Fixed

• Don try attaching the mbeddr root menu when the model or repository is null.

November 2022

com.mbeddr.mpsutil

Fixed

• Set caption of CopySource action to "Copy sources to clipboard". It was previously set to "Zoom In".

com.mbeddr.doc

Changed

• To avoid deadlocks, screenshots are now rendered from a Make facet rather than from the generator.
• Any screenshots that fail to render will cause the build to fail.
• The concepts SectionAsImageParagraph and Visualization now also use correct generation paths inside the doc_gen folder.

Fixed

• Visualization of glossary term dependencies (com.mbeddr.doc.terms).
• Doc aspect: Activate editor extensions for the tools' editor component (styles like margin and border from celllayout work now).

com.mbeddr.core

Added

• CellEditorScreenshooter#takeScreenshotSynchronously method that renders screenshots synchronously in the caller's thread.

• Documentation xhtml generator: links are now generated to referenced documents not only in the table of contents but also in the document itself.