This sounds great! Thanks to you both for wanting to contribute this.
I'm not familiar with XText or how we would integrate it with the
project, so I'd be interested in a quick explanation if you guys don't mind.
rb
On 10/15/2015 08:13 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Hi,
I ran into a similar problem a while back. I have a project that
generates Avro schemas from Eclipse EMF and creates a resource loader
that stores EMF data in avro format instead of XMI. One of the problems
that I ran into was a way to display the Avro schemas (avsc - not idl)
so I created an XText parser for the schema. It works up to the point
of having a type defined and then used later in the schema. The scoping
rule built into XText needs to be modified, but I haven't gotten around
to it yet.
Feel free to use anything useful you find here:
https://github.com/LangleyStudios/eclipse-avro
The XText schema for the AVSC is here:
https://github.com/LangleyStudios/eclipse-avro/blob/master/plugins/net.langleystudios.avro.dsl/src/net/langleystudios/dsl/AvroSchema.xtext
I would love to help out with an XText for Avro IDL. XText is fun.
-J. Langley
Quoting Damiaan van der Kruk <[email protected]>:
Hallo,
I'm new here, so first a short introduction: I'm Damiaan and finished my
Master in Computer Science some months ago. I have worked at different
software companies where I used; Java, C#, JavaScript, modelling
techniques
(like EMF, Xtext, Sirius) and more. I now working for a company who is
interested in using Avro and I want mostly likely contribute to it. For
this reason the following question:
Is there any syntax-directed editor for Avro IDL? I was searching around
and couldn't find any.
If it doesn't exists, I would like to create/contribute one based on
Xtext
if you are interested? Also is there any language specification (in for
example EBNF) for the Avro IDL? I only found
https://avro.apache.org/docs/current/idl.html and some pages on the wiki.
Damiaan
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Ryan Blue
Software Engineer
Cloudera, Inc.
