eclipse.plugin.generator.visualizer

Eclipse Plugin to mark / visualize code affected by a code generator.

Mark code which was

• generated
• not modified manually
• added manually
• modified manually
• removed

Add shortcuts in order

• to jump directly to the generated counterpart
• to compare the counterparts

Give actions in order

• to disable the plugin
• to ignore certain line of codes in the compare view (tree diff)
• to set colour / way of visualization

Installation

The eclipse plug-in could be installed from the following eclipse update site:

http://seerhein-lab.github.io/eclipse.plugin.generator.visualizer/0.1.0/

Use the plugin

As you can see in the following screenshot your editor view will be enhanced by markers, annotations and actions:

Configure the plugin

You can configure the plugin with the following two screens:

1. Eclipse Preferences: General > Editors > Text Editors > Annotations Here you can setup the four Annotations added by this plugin (added, deleted, generated, modified).

   

2. Eclipse Preferences: Generator Visualizer In that screen to can configure the general behaviour of the plugin.

   

Developing

You need Maven 3.x.

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