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Bug 347006

Summary: Front end needs to be designed - refactoring, validation framework, etc.
Product: z_Archived Reporter: Paul Harmon <pharmon>
Component: EDTAssignee: Project Inbox <edt.ide.core-inbox>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P1 CC: smythew, svihovec, tww
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard:

Description Paul Harmon CLA 2011-05-24 11:35:17 EDT 
The entire validation framework needs to be redesigned. This will entail (but not limited to):

1) Removing the primitive types. Bindings should be created for the external types that are now define in the EGL mof model that represent these types (such as AnyString). The defined operations/converters on these bindings will be used to do the validation (type compatibility, overloaded function resolution), etc.

2) Make much of the validation extensible. The various stereotypes and annotations for a given part/member should register validator classes that will be used to do the bulk of the validation work. This will enable EDT validation to be extended.


In addition, the refactoring framework will need to come over from RBD. Most (all?) of this framework is fairly general (update references, change package names, change imports, etc). Some rework will be needed since EDT will enforce 1 part per file.
Comment 1 Brian Svihovec CLA 2011-12-16 15:45:00 EST 
Tim, I believe you have said that this needs to be completed in the .8 time frame under the Extensibility theme.  If that is the case, we need to have this discussion sooner than later.
Comment 2 Brian Svihovec CLA 2012-01-27 14:23:49 EST 
I believe this is a duplicate of 368352.  If that is the true, please close one of these enhancements.  If we keep this enhancement, I believe the component should be Compiler and not IDE Core.
Comment 3 Matt Heitz CLA 2013-01-03 14:21:55 EST 
Setting the Target Milestone correctly for all bugs (set to Future in this case).