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In ganymede it is not possible to compare UML models using text compare. The solution from the FAQ (http://wiki.eclipse.org/EMF_Compare_FAQ#How_to_force_text_comparison.3F) does not work in 3.4.
It's the same with *.xmi files. They're even listed as 'locked' under 'Content Types' 'Text' -> 'XML' -> 'XML Metadata Interchange (XMI)'. This is very annoying since graphical Ecore Compare of my *.xmi files is pretty useless for me. Thanks for fixing. Greetz, Ruben
Ruben, humm we shouldn't have xmi compared through EMF Compare in the first place, the impossibility to compare files textually should only be true with ecore and uml. If xmi gets compared with EMF Compare, then you most likely have it added under the "EMF Compare" content type. Simply remove it from there.
(In reply to comment #2) > Ruben, > > humm we shouldn't have xmi compared through EMF Compare in the first place, the > impossibility to compare files textually should only be true with ecore and > uml. If xmi gets compared with EMF Compare, then you most likely have it added > under the "EMF Compare" content type. Simply remove it from there. > Hi Laurent, nope, *.xmi isn't listed anywhere but under 'Text' ... '.. (XMI)'. "EMF Compare" has only those three types: '*.ecore', '*.emfdiff' and '*.uml'. Ruben
Ruben, Could you provide me with a little more info then? With only those three content types listed under "EMF Compare", you select two ".xmi" files, right click and select compare with => each other and still it is EMF Compare that's called up? Are you sure it isn't WTP or another of your plugins that's providing a custom tool for xmi comparison? What puzzles me even more is that we have had the opposite problem issued to us : http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/article.php?id=5468&group=eclipse.technology.emft . We've never seen EMF Compare being used were it shouldn't have been before :(.
(In reply to comment #4) > Ruben, > > Could you provide me with a little more info then? With only those three > content types listed under "EMF Compare", you select two ".xmi" files, right > click and select compare with => each other and still it is EMF Compare that's > called up? Are you sure it isn't WTP or another of your plugins that's > providing a custom tool for xmi comparison? > > What puzzles me even more is that we have had the opposite problem issued to us > : > http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/article.php?id=5468&group=eclipse.technology.emft > . > > We've never seen EMF Compare being used were it shouldn't have been before :(. > Hi Laurent, yes, no matter how I'm trying to compare an .xmi file to another (history, cvs, rightclick) no text compare schows up. WTP is not installed. It's eclipse-modeling-ganymede-SR1-incubation-win32.zip with only AnyEditTools manually added (tried already without it). I'm not sure it's "EMF Compare". How can I tell which editor/compare is beeing shown? It looks like "EMF Compare" as far as I can tell. (comparing .ecore files looks similar) Ruben
Created attachment 121817 [details] location of the export menu Then there is a good chance it *is* EMF Compare ... Yet how can it be selected as the comparison engine for files which are *not* registered under the content-type EMF Compare I truly fail to understand. A good way to see if it is indeed EMF Compare is to look at the little save icon on the top right of the comparison UI (see attached image): if it contains a drop down item "As emfdiff", then it's EMF Compare' UI.
Created attachment 121931 [details] my compare view
(In reply to comment #6) > Created an attachment (id=121817) [details] > location of the export menu > > Then there is a good chance it *is* EMF Compare ... Yet how can it be selected > as the comparison engine for files which are *not* registered under the > content-type EMF Compare I truly fail to understand. > > A good way to see if it is indeed EMF Compare is to look at the little save > icon on the top right of the comparison UI (see attached image): if it contains > a drop down item "As emfdiff", then it's EMF Compare' UI. > Hi Laurent, there's no save icon in the upper right corner (see (previously attached) attachment). The compare uses the same look & feel (element icons) as the "Sample (Reflective) Ecore Model Editor". The same is true for .ecore model files (editing and comparing looking similar). Ruben
Yes , apart from the missing structural differences and save icon, this seems awfully close to EMF Compare :(. I have never seen it called were it shouldn't have been and have to idea how it could even be called on xmi files if *.xmi isn't in the EMF Compare content-type... let alone help you on that matter :/. Could you open the plug-in registry and filter on "org.eclipse.compare.diff.engine" to see if any plugin in your configuration provides a diff engine on "xmi" file-extension? And another filter on org.eclipse.compare.contentMergeViewer to see if any plugin provides a custom comparison for xmi files? Just send me screenshots with those filter activated, either here or via mail :). Thanks for your time
Created attachment 122076 [details] plug-in registry contentMergeViewers Hi Laurent, with filtering on 'org.eclipse.compare.diff.engine' nothing showed up. Filtering on 'org.eclipse.compare.contentMergeViewer' hit. I found a contentTypeBinding for 'org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xmi' under 'org.eclipse.emf.compare.ui' (see attached screenshot). Does this help/explain? Sparing some of my time for getting help could be seen as selfish :). Thanks for yours. Ruben
Ruben, ok that makes it clear and it is indeed a problem on our side ... seems the behavior has changed since my first tests in 3.4. This will be fixed in our very next build but, out of curiosity, which version of Eclipse are you using?
(In reply to comment #11) > Ruben, > > ok that makes it clear and it is indeed a problem on our side ... seems the > behavior has changed since my first tests in 3.4. This will be fixed in our > very next build but, out of curiosity, which version of Eclipse are you using? > Hi Laurent, Eclipse Version: Eclipse Platform Version: 3.4.1 Build id: M20080911-1700 5th donwload on www.eclipse.org/downloads 'Eclipse Modeling Tools...', filename 'eclipse-modeling-ganymede-SR1-incubation-win32.zip'. Thanks for fixing. Ruben
Ruben, After some more investigation, this is something we cannot fix directly within EMF Compare :(. EMF Compare being called for xmi files comparison will not be fixed directly : we'll have to find a way to allow users to force the text comparison (hence fixing this bug) so that you can at least fall back to the default comparison. What causes your files to be compared with EMF Compare even though their extension isn't registered is the FIX mentionned on bug 217986 , comment #2. This bug also shows links to bug against the compare framework that prevent us from totally fixing these issues.
We found a way to work around bug #210001 to fix bug #199882 , a way to call for a textual comparison from EMF compare UI should be provided in the coming builds.
Adding bug 220457 as a blocker of this one since its resolution will resolve this
Fixes for compare bug 266476 solved this problem, allowing users to change the comparator to be used from the compare editor.
FIX available through Eclipse platform 3.5M6
Closing our "resolved" and "verified" bugs.
