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Implementing Domain-Specific Languages with Xtext and Xtend

You're reading from   Implementing Domain-Specific Languages with Xtext and Xtend Learn how to implement a DSL with Xtext and Xtend using easy-to-understand examples and best practices.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786464965
Length 426 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Lorenzo Bettini Lorenzo Bettini
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface Preface to the second edition
1. Implementing a DSL FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Your First Xtext Language 3. Working with the Xtend Programming Language 4. Validation 5. Code Generation 6. Customizing Xtext Components 7. Testing 8. An Expression Language 9. Type Checking 10. Scoping 11. Continuous Integration 12. Xbase 13. Advanced Topics 14. Conclusions
A. Bibliography
Index

Classes of the same package

Just like in Java, SmallJava classes should be able to refer to external classes in the same package without importing the package. However, this is not yet the case in the current implementation. For example, given the following two SmallJava files, they are not able to refer to each other without an explicit import, although they are in the same package:

// first file
package my.pack;

class A {
  B b;
}

// second file
package my.pack;

class B extends A {}

To solve this problem, we need to go back to our custom SmallJavaImportedNamespaceAwareLocalScopeProvider that we implemented in section Default imports. The idea is to customize internalGetImportedNamespaceResolvers so that when the context is a SmallJava program then we add an implicit import of the same package of the current SmallJava program, if the program has a package.

To do that, we create an ImportNormalizer. We have already used ImportNormalizer in section Default imports. This is the implementation...

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