AGX: A Generator for X (eggs)

Now after two successful days of the sprint  we have a good outcome.

Michael Launay and Vincent Fretin from Ecreall  (Lille/ France) arrived Wednesday evening after a 1000km car-ride and joined Robert and Jens at BlueDynamics Office in Innsbruck Thursday morning. After synchronizing our minds showing what was done so far we started pair-programming. We expected Gogo from Vienna to join us in the evening, but he got ill and was not able to get on his flight. But fortunately he started to help out remotely.

Michael + Jens worked on the UML internal model. The import of XMI to UML, and the internal model (class-diagram) representaion was already finished by Jens and Robert in the last 3 weeks. Now the real difficult work had to be done: Get useful information out of the model. We wrote some convinience classes following roughly the adpater pattern (but not using ZCA here). Its all tested and documented by doctests - I'd say we have a very good coverage. Most of the time was needed to find the edge-cases in modelling.

Vincent + Robert paired to work on the transformation and generation of Python-code. The connection of the transformations as a chain works now. The generation for filesystem-structures is almost done. Python generation is work in progress and task for today. Gogo helped here by taking specific tasks. All code is tested and documented with doctests as well.

Today we plan to finish the UML convinience API and get the core work for Python-code-representation in a tree done. If this is done we can start writing our first real code generation chain: And what will it be? No, not Plone-code: We will generate AGX-generators! This means: python eggs, packages, modules, methods, classes and decorators.

for the agx-sprint team

-- Jensens