Question : Outlet without cleaning strategy

[didos36]

Hello,

I have a Xtext Language that define several output configuration, but with some different strategy regarding delete existing files. One delete existing file, the other only create file is not exiting.

I tried someting like
outlets { DEFAULT_OUTPUT { producesJava = true } DEFAULT_OUTPUT_ONCE { producesJava = true cleanAutomatically = false } }

but this is working.
Any idea?

[oehme]

What is not working? Can you please provide a reproducible example project on GitHub?

[peterssas]

I have the same problem, are there any solution for this?
A small example: https://github.com/peterssas/xtext-gradle-problem.git
The File "TestEntityGenOnce" is modified and will be overwritten during next gradle build

The option "cleanAutomatically = false" causes that the output folder won't be cleared, but the files will be overwritten.

[oehme]

Thanks for the example! I had wrongly assumed that Xtext merges the output configuration, but that's not the case. So the the Gradle plugin needs to do it instead.

[didos36]

Hello,

Do you plan a bug fix?

[oehme]

Not at the moment but pull requests are welcome