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Bug 338247

Summary:	Xpand: Feature Request: Include Statement to include static text like copyright headers for source files
Product:	[Modeling] M2T	Reporter:	Olaf Bigalk <bib.odo>
Component:	Xpand	Assignee:	Project Inbox <m2t.xpand-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	karsten.thoms, sebastian.zarnekow, sven.efftinge
Version:	unspecified	Flags:	karsten.thoms: kepler+
Target Milestone:	M6
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Olaf Bigalk

2011-02-25 12:17:49 EST

Build Identifier: 

It would be nice if the Xpand language had an INCLUDE statement to include boilderplate text like copyright and licence text. Even nicer would it be if the included text is parsed for Xpand statements.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
N/A

Comment 1 Karsten Thoms

2011-02-25 13:45:58 EST

I'm not sure if this would be realized. We try to keep the language as small as possible and don't introduce concepts that could be solved with existing means. In this case, this could be solved (and is so in many projects) by providing an Xtend function that does the job. You could even call the XpandFacade in this function, which would solve your second need. 

But maybe it would be a good idea to add such a function to stdlib?

Comment 2 Sven Efftinge

2013-02-13 11:05:02 EST

@Karsten: Could you outline briefly what you are going to do here?

Comment 3 Karsten Thoms

2013-02-13 11:06:52 EST

I would add extensions to org::eclipse::xtend::util::stdlib::io named "includeFile":

   String includeFile (String filePath, String encoding)
   String includeFile (String filePath)

In Xpand it could be used like this:

   «EXTENSION org::eclipse::xtend::util::stdlib::io»
   ...
   «includeFile("header.txt")»

Comment 4 Sven Efftinge

2013-02-13 11:07:46 EST

I see sounds good.

Comment 5 Karsten Thoms

2013-02-13 12:02:46 EST

Added with changeset 10f89fbae927c8ecd0e3e8e35f819cda98ea0062

Comment 6 Sebastian Zarnekow

2013-02-13 12:24:12 EST

You may want to use the value of the coding parameter.

Comment 7 Karsten Thoms

2013-02-14 03:00:14 EST

Fixed

Comment 8 Eclipse Webmaster

2017-10-31 11:26:22 EDT

Requested via bug 522520.

-M.