Towards an Incremental Update Approach for Concrete Textual Syntaxes for UUID-Based Model Repositories

Abstract

Textual concrete syntaxes for models are beneficial for many reasons. They foster usability and productivity because of their fast editing style, their usage of error markers, autocompletion and quick fixes. Several frameworks and tools from different communities for creating concrete textual syntaxes for models emerged during recent years. However, these approaches failed to provide a solution in general. Open issues are incremental parsing and model updating as well as partial and federated views. On the other hand incremental parsing and the handling of abstract syntaxes as leading entities has been solved within the compiler construction communities many years ago. In this short paper we envision an approach for the mapping of concrete textual syntaxes that makes use of the incremental parsing techniques from the compiler construction world. Thus, we circumvent problems that occur when dealing with concrete textual syntaxes in a UUID based environment.