Authoring Design Decisions ‐ RulePad
- When the user makes a change in the Graphical Editor, the Graphical Editor parser modifies the text in the Textual Editor.
- Alternatively, if the user changes the text in the Textual Editor, the grammar parser parses the text, and using the parse tree, the elements in the Graphical Editor are generated.
- To create a checkable design rule, the text in the Textual Editor is parsed by the grammar parser and then the parse tree is translated into XPath queries by the XPath generator.
- The XPath queries along with other information create the design decision.
- RulePad also provides instant feedback for design rules by checking the rule against the code and extracting snippets from the code.
Active Documentation uses ANTLR 4.
- The grammar is stored in
rulePadGrammar.g4. - The generated code with ANTLR is created through gradle script.
- The
gradle.buildfile is located in the root directory of the project. - Run
gradle generateParser- The generated files will be stored in
src/core/generated-parser.