Edition services¶

The edition service provide simple text editors that can be opened to display the contents of a file:

• the edition service interface is IEditionService.
• the IEditionService instance can be obtained from the IModelioServices via the module IModuleContext.

Open a text editor¶

A text editor can be opened on a (model element, file) association pair by using the openEditor() method service of IEditionService. Being coupled to a model element, the editor will automatically close if the element is deleted.

Here is an example how to invoke a text editor:

 import org.modelio.api.editor.EditorType;
 import org.modelio.api.editor.IEditionService;
 import org.modelio.api.editor.IMDATextEditor;
 import org.modelio.api.modelio.Modelio;
 import org.modelio.metamodel.uml.infrastructure.ModelElement;
 
 IModuleContext ctx = MyModule.getInstance().getModuleContext();
 IEditionService editionService = ctx.getModelioServices().getEditionService();
 Element toEdit = ...;
File fileToEdit = ...;
EditorType editorType = EditorType.TXTEditor;

IMDATextEditor editor = editionService.openEditor(toEdit, fileToEdit, editorType, false);

React to save and close of an editor¶

A listener can be put on the editor to be notified when the editor is saved or closed. Then the file content can be retrieved, parsed or reversed.

 IMDATextEditor editor = ... ;
 
 editor.setListener( new IMDAEditorListener() {
   public void documentSaved(IMDATextEditor anEditor) {
     // retrieve file content in the model here
     File savedFile = editor.getFile();
     ...
   }
 
  public void editorClosed(IMDATextEditor anEditor) {
  }
});