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Bug 331374 - Template extension inside of a file block appears to be broken
Summary: Template extension inside of a file block appears to be broken
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Acceleo
Classification: Modeling
Component: Core (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows Vista
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
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Reported: 2010-11-29 14:16 EST by Glenview Jeff CLA
Modified: 2016-04-05 03:14 EDT (History)
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Description Glenview Jeff CLA 2010-11-29 14:16:25 EST 
Build Identifier: M20100211-1343

If I try to create a template that looks like this, everything works as expected.

[module a extends b]
[template public ItemActivity(i : ItemActivity) overrides Activity]
	[file ('/src/abc/'.concat(i.name.concat('.java')), false, 'Cp1252')]
		[doOtherTemplateStuff(i)/]
	[/file]
[/template]
[template public doOtherTemplateStuff(i : ItemActivity) overrides doOtherTemplateStuff]
   [super/]
   xyzzy1
[/template]
[/module]

[module b]
[template public Activity(a : Activity)]
	[doOtherTemplateStuff(a)/]
[/template]
[template public doOtherTemplateStuff(a : Activity)]
   [super/]
   xyzzy2
[/template]
[/module]



If on the other hand I do this (changing [doOtherTemplateStuff(i)/] to [super/]:

[module a]
[template public ItemActivity(i : ItemActivity) overrides Activity]
	[file ('/src/abc/'.concat(i.name.concat('.java')), false, 'Cp1252')]
		[super/]
	[/file]
[/template]

[template public doOtherTemplateStuff(i : ItemActivity) overrides doOtherTemplateStuff]
   [super/]
   xyzzy1
[/template]
[/module]

[module b]
[template public Activity(a : Activity)]
	[doOtherTemplateStuff(a)/]
[/template]
[/module]

[template public doOtherTemplateStuff(a : Activity)]
   xyzzy2
[/template]
[/module]



then I get no output. 

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Laurent Goubet CLA 2016-03-30 10:42:40 EDT 
Associated gerrit https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/69534/ will fix the [super/] call.

However, Acceleo has the issue of never going "back down" to the sub-modules in  case of a super call.

In other words, "a.itemActivity" will properly go up to its super "b.Activity", but when "b.Activity" calls "doOtherTemplateStuff", the template called will be "b.doOtherTemplateStuff" and not "a.doOtherTemplateStuff" as one could expect.

There are no plans to fixing that behavior for now.