Description Dietmar Stoll 2016-04-18 12:30:23 EDT

A Xtend file with lots of else-if-statements leads to a stack overflow. (A generator in an existing project created the Xtend file with about 500 else-if-statements.)

Steps to reproduce:
- Create an Xtend file with a method containing, for instance, 500 "else if" statements in a text editor
def void multiElseIf() {
if (true) {	return 	} 
		else if (true) { return } 
		else if (true) { return } 
    // ... x500
	}    

- open the file in the Xtend editor
Expected: File opens without errors
Actual:  java.lang.StackOverflowError

A workaround would be to use Xtend case statements. The Eclipse Java editor handles multiple else-if-statements in Java of the same quantity without errors Manual Java code:
		if (true) { return; }
		else if (true) { return;}
		else if (true) { return;}
		// ...

The generated Java code from the Xtend snippet looks like this:
    if (true) {
      return;
    } else {
      if (true) {
        return;
      } else {
...