Sirius – Provide representation location rule (experimental)

Goals

An experimental mode to serialize representations in different files is available with the system property createRepresentationInSeparateResource=true. That means all new representations will be saved, by default, in a separate file with *.srm extension.
Developer may need to override this rule by choosing to add one or several representations in a specific resource.

Override the representation location rule.

The DRepresentationLocationRule interface

• boolean provides(DRepresentation representation, Resource dViewResource): Indicates if this DRepresentationLocationRule provides a custom URI for this kind of representation and the resource that holds the DView. If not and if there is no other DRepresentationLocationRule that provides, Sirius fall back to the default implementation.

• URI getResourceURI(DRepresentation representation, Resource dViewResource): Provides the new URI for the given representation.

• Boolean isARepresentationResource(String fileExtension): Indicates if the given file extension is considered as a representation file. This extension point allows to define its own extension to hold representations. The developer still needs to register the Resource Factory to org.eclipse.emf.ecore.extension_parser extension point.

Provide your DRepresentationLocationRule using the org.eclipse.sirius.dRepresentationLocationRule extension point

Please refer to this extension point documentation for more details.