Release Notes for Sirius

Release Notes for Sirius

This document contains the release notes for recent major releases of Sirius. See also the release notes from previous versions for details about older releases.

Changes in Sirius 4.1.7

Developer-Visible Changes

Migrations

Added A new class org.eclipse.sirius.ext.gmf.runtime.gef.ui.figures.SiriusDefaultSizeNodeFigure has been added in plugin org.eclipse.sirius.ext.gmf.runtime. The goal of the class is to workaround a GMF bug. So if you have created class which inherits from org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.gef.ui.figures.DefaultSizeNodeFigure, you must now use the new SiriusDefaultSizeNodeFigure instead.

User-Visible Changes

Added In previous versions, it was not possible to open or delete a corrupted sequence diagram (actually a sequence diagram with a corrupted message because of a proxy anchor). In this version, opening or deleting the corrupted sequence diagram is possible but the cause of the corruption has not yet been found and fix. Opening a corrupted sequence diagram now warns the user by logging a warning in the error log about the corrupted message and how to fix it (see bugzilla #525684 for more details).

Changes in Sirius 4.1.6

User-Visible Changes

Added An automatic migration has been added in this version to fix diagram with edge labels corrupted (see bugzilla #517437 for more details). Contrary to all previous migrations, this one logs an information in the Error Log view to inform how many labels have been fixed in concerned diagrams. If detected as “corrupted label”, the label is reset to its default location (as if you launch the “Snap Back” action of it). If at least one label is detected as “corrupted label”, the layout is also potentially corrupted (nodes, children of the diagram, with x or y coordinate very big). In this case, the concerned nodes are moved near 5000 (or -5000) as new coordinate. A message is added in this case: Some nodes have also been moved as the layout of this diagram is corrupted. A Reset Origin and/or manual layout is probably needed for this diagram. The rules applied to detect a corrupted label are the following:
- If the label is less than 250 pixels away from the reference point on its corresponding edge, the label is not considered as distant.
- If the label is more than 1000 pixels away from the reference point on its corresponding edge, the label is considered as distant.
- Between these 2 limits, the label is considered as distant if the distance between the center of the label and the edge is higher than “four times the size of the nearest segment”.

Specifier-Visible Changes

Modified Since this version, in manual refresh mode ( Automatic Refresh Sirius preference disabled), when the Force Refresh option of a tool is enabled in your VSM, only the current representation is refreshed when the tool is applied. Before this version, all open representations were refreshed.

Developer-Visible Changes

Migrations

Added A migration has been added to fix diagram with edge labels corrupted (see bugzilla #517437 for more details). The corresponding version, stored in attribute version of viewpoint:DAnalysis of the aird file, is 11.1.6.201706261600.

Changes in Sirius 4.1.5

User-Visible Changes

Modified The label alignment of Notes from the Palette has been modified from Juno to Luna or newer versions of Eclipse. The label alignment changed from TOP & CENTER to MIDDLE & LEFT. The initial alignment (TOP & CENTER) has been restored. This is done with an automatic migration of the aird file.

Developer-Visible Changes

Migrations

Added A migration is added in this version to fix the alignment of the text in notes (as explained in user visible changes). The corresponding version, stored in attribute version of viewpoint:DAnalysis of the aird file, is 11.1.5.201704181500.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui`

Added Constants org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.business.api.query.ViewQuery.SPECIFIC_STYLES & org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.business.api.query.ViewQuery.VERTICAL_ALIGNMENT have been added to retrieve the initial label alignment of Notes from the Palette (see user-visible changes ). Currently the vertical alignment can not be changed (potential new feature later).

Changes in Sirius 4.1.4

User-Visible Changes

ModifiedThe “straighten to” actions previously had a limitation concerning overlap detection. This is no longer the case. The previous known limitation was removed from the documentation ( In case of multi-selection, the overlap check is done in the current context of existing border nodes and not in the context of location of border nodes after each straighten edges.).

Developer-Visible Changes

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.ui`

Added The method org.eclipse.sirius.ui.tools.api.views.modelexplorerview.resourcelistener.DefaultModelingProjectResourceListener.isPotentialSemanticResource2(IFile) has been added but directly in deprecated. Indeed, it is a part of a temporary fix, waiting for a more impacting fix made in Sirius 5.0.0. This method will be removed in Sirius 5.0.0. It is not intended to be used by clients.

Changes in Sirius 4.1.3

Developer-Visible Changes

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.tests.junit.support`

Added The utility method org.eclipse.sirius.tests.support.api.TestsUtil.setTargetPlatform() has been added to allow to load a PDE target platform according to all known OSGi bundles. It is usefull to compile a plug-in in the execution runtime of the tests.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support`

Modified A new AtomicBoolean parameter has been added to the utility method mouseDragWithKey(int, int, int, int, int) in classes org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support.api.editor.SWTBotSiriusDiagramEditor, org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support.api.editor.SWTBotSiriusGefViewer and org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support.api.widget.SWTBotSiriusFigureCanvas. This allows to correctly wait the end of the drag’n’drop.
- Sample of code to use:

final AtomicBoolean dragFinished = new AtomicBoolean(false);
editor.dragWithKey(start.x, start.y, endpoint.x, endpoint.y, SWT.F3, dragFinished);
// Wait that the drag is done (the async Runnable simulating the
// drag)
bot.waitUntil(new ICondition() {
    @Override
    public boolean test() throws Exception {
        return dragFinished.get();
    }

    @Override
    public void init(SWTBot bot) {
    }

    @Override
    public String getFailureMessage() {
        return "The drag'n'drop operation has not finished.";
    }
});
// Wait that the figures are redrawn. In a fast environment, figures
// are not really redrawn and the rest of the test is not reliable.
SWTBotUtils.waitAllUiEvents();

Changes in Sirius 4.1.2

User-Visible Changes

Added

A new preference named Maximum size of tabs name is available in the Sirius Properties View preference page. This preference is used to shorten the tabs names when the default rules are used to render the properties view.

Developer-Visible Changes

Added org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.format.SiriusFormatDataManagerWithMapping class has been added to handle copy/paste format with mapping information when an element target of a format pasting has many source diagram format corresponding to its key. In this case, we use the mapping information to get the more precise data format. And if no result matched, then we return the first found by using the key.

Added org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.format.SiriusFormatDataManagerWithMapping.getFormatData(FormatDataKey, RepresentationElementMapping) method has been added to retrieve during format pasting the data format corresponding to the given key and mapping when more than one result correspond to the key. If no result matches the mapping, then the first result found by using the key is returned.

Added org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.format.SiriusFormatDataManagerWithMapping.addFormatData(FormatDataKey, RepresentationElementMapping, AbstractFormatData) method has been added to allow data format manager to register data format with mapping information when copying format.

Deprecated

org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.format.SiriusFormatDataManager.getFormatData(FormatDataKey) It is replaced by org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.format.SiriusFormatDataManagerWithMapping.getFormatData(FormatDataKey, RepresentationElementMapping) to better handle copy/paste format cases.

Deprecated

org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.format.SiriusFormatDataManager.addFormatData(FormatDataKey, AbstractFormatData) It is replaced by org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.format.SiriusFormatDataManagerWithMapping.addFormatData(FormatDataKey, RepresentationElementMapping, AbstractFormatData) to better handle copy/paste format cases.

Changes in Sirius 4.1.1

User-Visible Changes

ModifiedThe “straighten to” actions were previously disabled when an edge is connected to border nodes that have several edges. It is now allowed.

Developer-Visible Changes

Added org.eclipse.sirius.table.business.api.helper.TableHelper.getEStructuralFeature(DLine, DColumn) method has been added to retrieve the EStructuralFeature associated to a table column.

Changes in Sirius 4.1.0

User-Visible Changes

Added Copy/Paste Layout has been completed with Copy/Paste Style and Copy/Paste Format. Paste Format is equivalent to paste Layout and Style action. See chapter Copy/paste of format in User Manual for more details.
Added The snap to shape feature is now available on border nodes.
Added It is now possible to display an attachment link between an edge and its labels when label or edge is selected. This is not the default behavior but it can be activated by a preference in Sirius/Sirius Diagram/Connections preference page. See chapter Display attachment link between edge and its labels in User Manual for more details.
Added It is now possible to straighten an edge to top, bottom, left or right. These actions are available on edge contextual menu Layout/Straighten. See chapter Straighten an edge in User Manual for more details.
Added It is now possible to disable the Default and Semantic properties tabs (visible when selecting and element from the Model Explorer or from a Sirius editor, respectively) when using modelers which provide fully-functional replacements defined directly with Sirius. This is controled in the new Sirius > Sirius Properties View preference page.
Added Sirius-defined properties view are now enabled for semantic elements selected directly from inside the Model Explorer (as long as the selected element is from inside an open Sirius session/project). Previously only elements selected from inside a Sirius editor were supported.
Modified In the Sirius-provided Properties View, the edition of a text field is only taken into account when pressing Enter or leaving the field. Previously it was triggered asynchronously after a small delay without activity, which could be confusing.
Modified When trying to open a session which holds a representation resource or a VSP which was saved using a more recent version of Sirius than the one you are using, the session will be automatically closed displaying an error message. You can overload this behavior by providing you own implementation of UICallBack in which you can have an UI feedback letting you choose if you want to open the session anyway. Warning: if you choose to proceed, there is no guarantee that the resulting session will be usable. It may even lead to data loss or corruption; use at your own risk.

If a viewpoint has been defined with a more recent version of Sirius than the one you are using, the ViewpointRegistry will not register it and a warning is logged in the error log view to inform the user.

Modified The move edge group feature now also work for a selection of edge group.
Modified In a diagram editor, the zoom with mouse wheel is now zooming on mouse location instead of center of the editor. See user documentation .
Modified The direct edit on a Note or Text is now accessible by a slow double click like any other diagram element.
Modified The shortcut Ctrl+&, for Reset Origin action, has been replaced by Ctrl+HOME.

Specifier-Visible Changes

Added It is now possible to inline a copy of the default Properties Views model inside the VSM. This is a copy of the model Sirius would use if no Properties View Description was specified. It can be used as a starting point for manual customization, or as a complement for elements for which you do not provide any custom rules.
Added In the definition of the Properties view, hyperlink and label widgets can now have widget actions.
Added Hyperlink and label widgets now have a displayExpression, if blank the result of the value expression will be used after a call to the method java.lang.Object#toString().
Added Hyperlink and label widgets now support optional associated actions (visible as buttons on the right of the widget).
Added A new widget named List with the same behavior as the multiple reference widget.
Added Page and Group descriptions in Properties View models now support a preconditionExpression, which behaves in the same way as preconditions for mappings on representation descriptions.
Modified The rules concerning the layout of compartments have been changed/completed. You can have a look at the dedicated chapter in the specifier documentation for more details.
Modified In the VSM editor, all dialogs which ask for selecting elements from the VSM will now show the fully qualified path of each element, instead of just their name, to allow distinguishing elements with the same name appearing in different places.
Modified The properties fontSize and labelFontSize have been renamed into fontSizeExpression and labelFontSizeExpression since both of them were already treated as expression.
Modified In the VSM editor, the Identifier attribute of many Prroperties View related elements has been moved into the Advanced tab and renamed Extension Id, as it is not actually required on common use cases but only for extensibility purposes.
Modified The property Domain Class Expression in DynamicMappingFor elements (in properties views definitions) has been renamed into Iterable Expression.
Modified The Properties View widget which was named Reference in Sirius 4.0 has been renamed as List, as it corresponds to an arbitrary list of elements with customizable buttons for acting on them. A new Reference widget was added for handling plain EReference edition with minimal configuration needed.
Modified When opening a VSM, the editor now automatically expands the first few levels to immediatly reveal the interesting elements (representation descriptions).
Deprecated The extension point org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.layoutDataManager is deprecated. It is replaced by the new extension point org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.formatDataManager. The deprecated extension point will be removed in the next 5.0 Sirius major release. Several classes associated with this deprecated extension point are also deprecated (see Developer-Visible Changes for details).

Developer-Visible Changes

Added As the first step to save the DRepresentation in its own resource, org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.DView.getOwnedRepresentationDescriptors() has been added as a wrapper of the DRepresentation. The DRepresentationDescriptor is contained by the DView and the DRepresentationDescriptor have a reference to the DRepresentation. In this step, the main impact is that the Sirius common navigator does not display the DRepresentation anymore but the DRepresentationDescriptor instead. All the actions and commands are then based on DRepresentationDescriptor.
Added As the second step to save the DRepresentation in its own resource, org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.DView.getOwnedRepresentations() has been removed. The DRepresentation is now created as root element of the representations resource. The main impact is on the core of Sirius but also potentially on client Sirius customization. Each peace of code that makes the supposition that the DView is the container of the DRepresentation must be reworked. The code using methods in the following list may be concerned by the rework:
- EObject.eContainer(). If the object is a DRepresentation, its container is now null.
- EcoreUtil.getRootContainer(xxx). The root container of a DDiagramElement is the DRepresentation and not the DAnalysis any more.
- EcoreUtil.isAncestor(xxx). the DView is not an ancestor of a DRepresentation (or its content) anymore.
Added As a developer, the followings utility methods will help you to migrate your code following the second step described above:
- org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.query.DViewQuery.getLoadedRepresentations() replaces the removed DView.getOwnedRepresentations() method. It provides all the loaded representations holds by a DView. In this step, all that representations are always loaded as they are into the .aird resource.
- org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.query.DViewQuery.getAllContentInRepresentations(final Predicate<? super EObject>) provides the content of a DView according to a predicate.
- org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.query.DRepresentationQuery.getRepresentationDescriptor() provides the DRepresentationDescriptor which references the DRepresentation.
- org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.query.EObjectQuery.getDAnalysis() allows to retrieve a DAnalysis from a DRepresentationElement

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius`

Added A new extension point named org.eclipse.sirius.interpretedExpressionQueryProvider (with the associated new interface org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.dialect.description.IInterpretedExpressionQueryProvider) allows external contribution of IInterpretedExpressionQuery specific to some particular expression occurrences in the VSM. This is used in particular for VSM extensions which do not fit well into the hard-coded assumptions about IInterpretedExpressionQuery. In Sirius 4.1, this is used to add completion and validation support for expressions used in properties views descriptions.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.migration.AirdResourceVersionMismatchException exception has been added to cancel Sirius session opening due to an .aird version mismatch, i.e. when one the of the loaded Representation resources is coming from a newer Sirius release.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.DView.getOwnedRepresentationDescriptors() has been added as the first step to save the DRepresentation in its own resource. In this step, the DRepresentationDescriptor life cycle is the same as the associated DRepresentation.
- org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.dialect.command.RenameRepresentationCommand
- org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.dialect.command.DeleteRepresentationCommand
- org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.dialect.command.MoveRepresentationCommand
- org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.dialect.command.CopyRepresentationCommand
Added getAvailableRepresentationDescriptions(Collection<Viewpoint>, EObject), getAllRepresentationDescriptors(Session ), getRepresentationDescriptors(EObject, Session) and getRepresentationDescriptors(RepresentationDescription, Session ) have been added in org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.dialect.DialectServices and implemented in org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.dialect.AbstractRepresentationDialectServices. These methods are used, instead of their equivalent with DRepresentation, for every functionality which relies on DRepresentationDescriptor instead of DRepresentation such as actions, wizards or views.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.dialect.AbstractRepresentationDialectServices.isSupported(DRepresentationDescriptor) has been added because actions, wizards or views that were related to DRepresentation are now related to DRepresentationDescriptor.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.ui.business.api.dialect.DialectUIServices.canHandle(DRepresentationDescriptor) has been added because actions, wizards or views that were related to DRepresentation are now related to DRepresentationDescriptor.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.ui.business.api.dialect.DialectUIManager.canExport(DRepresentationDescriptor, ExportFormat) has been added because actions, wizards or views that were related to DRepresentation are now related to DRepresentationDescriptor.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.query.DRepresentationQuery.getRepresentationDescriptor() has been added to retrieve the DRepresentationDescriptor that references the DRepresentation.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.session.CustomDataConstants.DREPRESENTATION_DESCRIPTOR_FROM_DESCRIPTION and org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.session.CustomDataConstants.DREPRESENTATION_DESCRIPTOR have been added. They are used to get or put DRepresentationDescriptor in the model managed by the Session through the org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.session.SessionService.putCustomData(String, EObject, EObject) and SessionService.getCustomData(String, EObject) methods.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.query.EObjectQuery.getDAnalysis() has been added to retrieve a DAnalysis from a DRepresentationElement
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.session.danalysis.DAnalysisSessionHelper.findContainerForAddedRepresentation(DAnalysis, DRepresentation) has been changed to findDViewForRepresentationDescription(DAnalysis , final RepresentationDescription) because that API was previously badly defined.
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.dialect.DialectServices.deleteRepresentation(DRepresentation, Session) has been changed to deleteRepresentation(DRepresentationDescriptor, Session) because now the DRepresentationDescriptor is the entry point to delete the DRepresentation and itself.
Modified DRepresentationDescriptor is now the entry point to move, control or uncontrol a DRepresentation instead of the DRepresentation itself. Accordingly, the return type or parameter of the followings have changed to switch from DRepresentation to DRepresentationDescriptor
- constructors of org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.control.SiriusControlCommand
- the constructor org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.dialect.command.MoveRepresentationCommand.MoveRepresentationCommand(Session, DAnalysis, Collection<DRepresentationDescriptor>)
- the method org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.session.danalysis.DAnalysisSession.moveRepresentation(DAnalysis, DRepresentationDescriptor)
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.session.danalysis.DAnalysisSessionHelper.updateModelsReferences(DView) has replaced updateModelsReferences(DAnalysis, Iterator<DSemanticDecorator>) because it is more suited to the client needs.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.ui`

Added The class org.eclipse.sirius.ui.business.api.dialect.HierarchyLabelProvider has been added to provide a generic label provider for VSM model element giving hierarchical label. This label provider replaces the one returned by deprecated method DialectUIServices.getHierarchyLabelProvider().
Modified AbstractSWTCallback provides a default implementation of UICallBack.askSessionReopeningWithResourceVersionMismatch() method to give feedback about version mismatch and give the choice to reopen session despite a potential corruption.
Modified The method org.eclipse.sirius.ui.tools.api.control.SiriusControlHandler.getRepresentationsToMove(Shell, Session, EObject) and SiriusControlHandler.collectExistingRepresentations have been renamed to getRepresentationDescriptorsToMove(Shell, Session, EObject) and SiriusControlHandler.collectExistingRepresentationDescriptors. The return type of both that methods and SiriusControlHandler.askUserWhichRepresentationToSplit has been changed to DRepresentationDescriptor as DRepresentationDescriptor is the entry point to work with a DRepresentation instead of DRepresentation itself.
Deprecated The method org.eclipse.sirius.ui.business.api.dialect.DialectUIServices.getHierarchyLabelProvider() has been deprecated in favor of generic label provider HierarchyLabelProvider.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.diagram`

Added org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.business.api.diagramtype.IDiagramDescriptionProvider.allowsCopyPasteFormat(DSemanticDecorator) has been added in replacement of allowsCopyPasteLayout(DSemanticDecorator) that is now deprecated. This 2 methods must return the same result. allowsCopyPasteLayout(DSemanticDecorator) will be removed in the new major version.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui`

Added The constant EDGE_SNAP_BACK has been added in class org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.ui.actions.ActionIds. It corresponds to the new snap back label action id that is present on edges.
Added 2 methods are added in org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.layout.SiriusLayoutDataManager (and also in org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.layout.AbstractSiriusLayoutDataManager):
- applyFormat(IGraphicalEditPart): Apply the current format data (layout data and style data) to the given edit part.
- applyStyle(IGraphicalEditPart): Apply the current style data to the give edit part.
Added 2 methods are added in org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.editor.tabbar.AbstractTabbarContributor:
- createCopyFormatContribution(IDiagramWorkbenchPart): In replacement of createCopyLayoutContribution(IDiagramWorkbenchPart) that is now deprecated.
- createPasteFormatContribution(IDiagramWorkbenchPart): In replacement of createPasteLayoutContribution(IDiagramWorkbenchPart) that is now deprecated.
Added New action ids have been added in org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.ui.actions.ActionIds:
- COPY_FORMAT: Action contribution id for the copy format. It replaces the old COPY_LAYOUT.
- PASTE_FORMAT: Action contribution id for the paste format. It does not replace the old PASTE_LAYOUT. The paste format paste the layout and the style. The paste layout only paste layout.
- PASTE_STYLE: Action contribution id for the paste style.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.business.api.query.NodeQuery.isDescendantOf(View) has been added to know if a view is a descendant of another view.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.business.api.query.ViewQuery.getAncestor(int...) has been added to retrieve the first ancestor of the view, or itself, that has at least one of the visualID passed as parameter.
Added The new preference key PREF_SHOW_LINK_EDGE_LABEL_ON_SELECTION has been added in org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.preferences.SiriusDiagramUiPreferencesKeys. It corresponds to the preference shown in Sirius/Sirius Diagram/Connections Eclipse preferences.
Added The new figure org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.figure.SiriusWrapLabelWithAttachment is a specific SiriusWrapLabel that allows to show an attachment between the label and its edge.
Added A new kind of request, org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.requests.StraightenToRequest, has been added to handle the new Straighten to actions. The corresponding id has also been added: org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.requests.RequestConstants.REQ_STRAIGHTEN.
Added 4 action ids have been added in org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.ui.actions.ActionIds:
- STRAIGHTEN_TO_TOP: For Straighten to top action,
- STRAIGHTEN_TO_BOTTOM: For Straighten to bottom action,
- STRAIGHTEN_TO_LEFT: For Straighten to left action,
- STRAIGHTEN_TO_RIGHT: For Straighten to right action.
Added Constants have been added in org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.image.DiagramImagesPath for the icon path of the four new straighten actions.
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.layout.AbstractSiriusLayoutDataManager is deprecated, use org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.format.AbstractSiriusFormatDataManager instead.
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.layout.ILayoutDataManagerProvider is deprecated, use org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.format.IFormatDataManagerProvider instead.
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.layout.LayoutDataHelper is deprecated, use org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.format.FormatDataHelper instead.
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.layout.LayoutDataKey is deprecated, use org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.format.FormatDataKey instead.
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.layout.SiriusLayoutDataManager is deprecated, use org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.format.SiriusFormatDataManager instead.
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.layout.SiriusLayoutDataManagerForSemanticElementsFactory is deprecated, use org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.format.SiriusFormatDataManagerForSemanticElementsFactory instead.
Moved The translation key HierarchyLabelProvider_elementWihtoutNameLabel has been removed from the org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui plug-in’s Messages class, and moved into the org.eclipse.sirius.ui's Messages class.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.ext.gmf.runtime`

Added The class SiriusSnapFeedbackPolicy has been copied from org.eclipse.sirius.ext.gef.editpolicies to org.eclipse.sirius.ext.gmf.runtime.editpolicies. The old class in plug-in org.eclipse.sirius.ext.gef is deprecated and will be removed in the next version.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.tests.junit.support`

Added The utility methods getRepresentationDescriptors(final String), getRepresentationDescriptors(final String , final Session ) and getRepresentationDescriptorFromRepresentation(DRepresentation) have been added in class org.eclipse.sirius.tests.support.api.SiriusTestCase to adapt tests considering the DView.ownedRepresentationDescriptors addition.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support`

Added The utility method mouseScrollWithKey(int, int, int, int), has been added in classes org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support.api.editor.SWTBotSiriusDiagramEditor, org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support.api.editor.SWTBotSiriusGefViewer and org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support.api.widget.SWTBotSiriusFigureCanvas to allow testing events occurring after a mouse scroll combined to a keyboard key pressed at a given absolute position.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.properties`

Modified The property domainClassExpression has been renamed into iterableExpression.
Modified The properties fontSize and labelFontSize have been renamed into fontSizeExpression and labelFontSizeExpression since both of them were already treated as expression.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.ui.properties`

Added Four utility classes have been added as API in the package org.eclipse.sirius.ui.properties.api in order to help with the transformation of the description of custom widgets. The class AbstractDescriptionConverter can now be used as superclass for all the converters. The classes DefautDescriptionConverter, DefautStyleDescriptionConverter and DefautDescriptionWithInitialOperationConverter, now accessible, should handle most of the use cases.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.ecore.extender`

Modified The message org.eclipse.sirius.ecore.extender.business.api.permission.exception.LockedInstanceException.PERMISSION_ISSUE_MESSAGE has been modified. You should now use the MessageFormat. Example: LockedInstanceException.PERMISSION_ISSUE_MESSAGE + getText(lockedElements) must be replaced by MessageFormat.format(LockedInstanceException.PERMISSION_ISSUE_MESSAGE, getText(lockedElements)).
Modified The org.eclipse.sirius.ecore.extender.business.api.accessor.ModelAccessorsRegistry has been refactored to avoid problem with ModelAccessor lifecycle. The constructor has no longer a parameter.

Changes in Sirius 4.0.0

User-Visible Changes

Added The user can now filter elements according to a Typed variable (String, Integer, EEnum or any EDataType). If a user applies a filter containing Typed Variables, a dialog is displayed to allow user entering the Typed Variable values. That values can be used as variables in the Condition Expression of the Variable Filter.
Added When the diagram is larger than the editor, you can move it in all directions pressing the middle-button and dragging the mouse (keeping the button pressed).
Modified Now if an object is locked and cannot be modified according to IPermissionAuthority, the properties view will not be editable if this locked object is selected from the Model Explorer view.
Modified When trying to reconnect an edge end on another edge, the edge is now highlighted only if a reconnect tool is found (the precondition of the tool is not tested here).
Modified List items now have the same margin whichever their parent is a simple list or a compartmentalized list. The margin in compartmentalized list was incorrectly set to 0 pixel.
Modified The wizard to ask the new representation name has been changed. These concerns the title of the wizard and the input label. Example with a new Entities diagram for EcoreTools:

Modified The export of diagram as image handles the gradient color for container background for BMP, JPG, PNG and SVG formats. Before, it only works for JPG format.
Modified The Apply Appearance Properties action has been modified to use the last selected element as base style instead of the first one.

Specifier-Visible Changes

Added Sirius 4.0 introduces experimental support for specifying the properties views of your modelers directly from inside the VSM. This feature uses the same dynamic approach as for specifying diagrams, tables and trees, with a very flexible configuration language and no code generation involved (including live preview of any change). As of Sirius 4.0, this feature should be considered in an experimental state with details subject to changes until Sirius 4.1, and is not installed by default. To install it, make sure either the Eclipse Neon repositry or the Sirius 4.0 and EEF 1.6 repositories are available, and then to install the following features (from in the Modeling category of Neon, or Sirius Experimental Features of the Sirius repository ):
- Sirius Properties Views – Runtime Support ( org.eclipse.sirius.properties.feature.feature.group): needed at runtime for deployed modelers which have properties views defined in their specification.
- Sirius Properties Views – Specifier Support ( org.eclipse.sirius.specifier.properties.feature.feature.group): provides support for editing the configuration model directly inside the VSM editor and the specifier documentation.

Once this is done, you can find the actual documentation in the Sirius Specifier Manual, under the Properties View section.

Added All static strings defined in the VSMs which are visible to the end-user of the modeler, like viewpoint and tools names, can now be internationalized. Simply replace the name with a translation key reference of the form %myUniqueKey in the VSM, and define the value in the Viewpoint Specification Project's plugin.properties (for the default value), or plugin_XX.properties for locale XX. The underlying mechanism is the same as for Eclipse/OSGi plug-ins, so translations can even be contributed by physically separate plug-in fragments. See the corresponding section in the documentation for more details.
Added It is possible to create Typed Variable under Variable Filter.
Added A new class org.eclipse.sirius.ext.emf.edit.EditingDomainServices (from plug-in org.eclipse.sirius.ext.emf.edit) has been added with a complete set of service methods to leverage most of the features of the “EMF Edit” framework, for example the various Item Providers associated to semantic elements. See the documentation for details.
Added The specifier can now restrict the border node authorized sides. This new option is available in the advanced tab of the border node style. See the specifier documentation for more details.
Modified The use of type literals in operations like filter() or oclIsKindOf() requires to explicitly add the domain meta-models plug-ins to the dependencies of the Viewpoint Specification Project. The documentation has been modified to recommend this.
Modified Warning: Before this version, a style customization of an EEnum attribute, like labelFormat, worked with a value expression using a Java service returning a EEnumLiteral. It is now forbidden. You must return an Enumerator. The documentation about Styles Customization now details this case.
Modified The BorderSizeComputationExpression migration has been corrected to recursively handle the sub container mappings. VSM created or migrated with Sirius 3.1.0, 3.1.1 or 3.1.2 might require a manual modification for the style descriptions of sub container mappings with border size computation equals to 0 as we cannot determine if they were added (or updated) after or before the migration: starting with Sirius 3.1.0, no border will be displayed for a 0 pixel value whereas with older version container always had at least a 1 pixel border.
Modified The variable under VariableFilter, previously named “Variable”, is renamed to “Select Model Element Variable”. It is functionally equivalent.

Developer-Visible Changes

Added It is now possible to provide a full customized tab-bar by implementing the ITabbarContributor through the org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tabbarContributor extension-point. See the developer documentation for more details.
Added It is now possible to provide new shapes for basic shape styles through the org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.bundledImageShape extension-point. See the developer documentation for more details.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius`

Added The method org.eclipse.sirius.ui.business.api.session.SessionEditorInput.getStatus() has been added to have the status about session opening, i.e. if it has been correctly opened, cancelled or an exception has occurred.
Added A new variant of org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.helper.task.TaskHelper.buildTaskFromModelOperation(EObject, ModelOperation) has been added, which does not require to specify a DRepresentation in the context. It allows the creation of a task which executes a behavior specified by ModelOperations outside of the context of a specific representation, provided the ModelOperations work in that context.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.description.TypedVariable has been created.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.description.InteractiveVariableDescription has been created as tag interface for variables that require user interaction to be valued.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.tools.api.command.ui.UICallBack.askForTypedVariable(List<TypedVariable>, List<String>) has been created.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.tools.api.command.ui.NoUICallback.askForTypedVariable(List<TypedVariable>, List<String>) has been created.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.dialect.DialectServices.getRequiredViewpoints(DRepresentation) has been added to have mean to get required viewpoints to use a representation.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.dialect.AbstractRepresentationDialectServices.getRequiredViewpoints(DRepresentation) has been added to have a default implementation of DialectServices.getRequiredViewpoints(DRepresentation) method.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.dialect.AbstractRepresentationDialectServices.isRelatedViewpointSelected(Session, RepresentationDescription) protected method has been added to check if a RepresentationDescription is usable in the context of the specified session.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.tools.api.command.ui.UICallBack.askForDetailName(String, String, String) method has been added to replace the deprecated org.eclipse.sirius.tools.api.command.ui.UICallBack.askForDetailName(String, String). This method now uses the description name as title for the wizard. This new method has been implemented by org.eclipse.sirius.ui.tools.api.command.AbstractSWTCallback and org.eclipse.sirius.tools.api.command.ui.NoUICallback.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.ui.tools.api.project.ModelingProjectManager.loadAndOpenRepresentationsFile(URI, boolean) has been added to specify if job used to open a session must be considered as launched by the user or not, because by default with ModelingProjectManager.loadAndOpenRepresentationsFile(URI) the job was not considered as launched by the user.
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.description.tool.SelectModelElementVariable now implements org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.description.InteractiveVariableDescription.
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.description.tool.AbstractVariable has been moved to org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.description.AbstractVariable.
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.description.tool.SubVariable has been moved to org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.description.SubVariable.
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.modelingproject.ModelingProject.getMainRepresentationsFileURI() methods no more update workspace resource about markers, now this must be done in caller on IllegalArgumentException catch in a workspace aware operation.
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.dialect.command.RefreshRepresentationsCommand.canExecute() now returns false if a DRepresentation cannot be refreshed, by calling DialectManager.canRefresh(DRepresentation).
Modified Several methods of org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.session.danalysis.DAnalysisSessionHelper now return a fr.obeo.dsl.viewpoint.DView instead of a fr.obeo.dsl.viewpoint.DRepresentationContainer:
- findContainer(EObject, Viewpoint, Collection<DAnalysis>, DAnalysisSelector),
- findContainerForAddedRepresentation(EObject, Viewpoint, Collection<DAnalysis>, DAnalysisSelector, DRepresentation),
- findContainerForAddedRepresentation(DAnalysis, DRepresentation), findFreeContainer(Viewpoint, Collection<DAnalysis>, DAnalysisSelector)
- findFreeContainer(Viewpoint, Collection<DAnalysis>, DAnalysisSelector).
Removed The org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.DRepresentationContainer EClass have been removed. It used to be the only implementation of org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.DView, the models derived transient reference has been moved to DView. An automatic migration has been added during the loading of the representation to handle this change.
Removed The class org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.extender.MetamodelDescriptorProvider2 has been deleted and is now MetamodelDescriptorProvider.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.common`

Added A method getInferredVariableTypes(Boolean value) in org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.interpreter.ValidationResult so that IInterpreter implementations able to infer more specific types based on predicates result provides this information to Sirius which will then use it for validating other expressions. You might want to look at org.eclipse.sirius.common.acceleo.aql.business.internal.AQLSiriusInterpreter which is an implementation providing this type inference.
Added A helper org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.util.MessageTranslator providing getMessage(EObject, String) and getMessage(Bundle, String) service dedicated into processing a translatable message to return the translation in the active language when available. This service returns the String without modification if not translatable or no translation is available.
Added The “INFO” severity has been added to org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.interpreter.IInterpreterStatus to reflect all kind of language validation severity (of AQL for example).

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.diagram`

Added org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.VariableValue, org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.TypedVariableValue and org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.EObjectVariableValue has been created.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.description.filter.impl.VariableFilterImpl.resetVariables() has been created to indicate that variables have to be computed again.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.description.style.Side EEnum has been added to define a border node side on the parent.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.description.style.NodeStyleDescription#forbiddenSides attribute has been added to set the border node forbidden sides on the parent.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.business.api.query.DNodeQuery.getForbiddenSide() has been added to retrieve the forbidden sides of a DNode (make sense only for Border Nodes).
Modified The type of org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.description.filter.VariableFilter.ownedVariable has been changed to org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.description.InteractiveVariableDescription.
Modified The type of org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.FilterVariableHistory.ownedValues has been changed to org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.VariableValue.
Modified The return type of org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.business.api.helper.SiriusDiagramUtil.findRepresentationContainer(DDiagram) has been changed from org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.DRepresentationContainer to org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.DView.
Removed org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.description.filter.FilterVariable has been removed. It is replaced by org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.description.tool.SelectModelElementVariable.
Removed org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.description.filter.impl.VariableFilterImpl.setFilterContext() has been removed. This method was, in part, useless and is replaced by org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.description.filter.impl.VariableFilterImpl.resetVariables().

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.ui`

Added org.eclipse.sirius.ui.tools.api.command.AbstractSWTCallback.askForTypedVariable(List<TypedVariable>, List<String>) has been created.
Added The new internationalizable label Messages_createRepresentationInputDialog_DefaultRepresentationDescName has been added (available through org.eclipse.sirius.ui.tools.api.Messages.createRepresentationInputDialog_DefaultRepresentationDescName. Its value is “Representation”.
Modified The internationalizable label Messages_createRepresentationInputDialog_NewRepresentationNameLabel has been replaced by “Name:” (previous value was “Representation name:”).
Modified The internationalizable label Messages_createRepresentationInputDialog_RepresentationDescriptionLabel has been replaced by “Representation description: {0}” (previous value was “Representation description: ”).
Modified The internationalizable label Messages_createRepresentationInputDialog_Title has been replaced by “New {0}” (previous value was “New Representation”).
Removed The internationalizable label org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.provider.Messages.OpenRepresentationsFileJob_initModelingProjectsTask has been removed as this message is no more used.
Removed The class org.eclipse.sirius.ui.business.api.editor.SpecificSessionManager has been removed.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui`

Added A new system property named org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.svg.maxCacheSizeMB has been added. It can be used to tweak the maximum size (in megabytes) of pre-rendered SVG images to keep in cache. The default is 50, corresponding to 50MB of bitmaps of 4 8-bit channels. Increasing the limit can improve performance when using diagrams with a lot of SVG images, at the cost of increased memory usage.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.editor.tabbar.ITabbarContributor interface has been added to provide a customized tab-bar for a specific selection.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.editor.tabbar.AbstractTabbarContributor is an abstract implementation of ITabbarContributor that allows reusing one or several of the default Sirius contribution items.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.editor.properties.sections.style.bundledimagedescription.BundledImageDescriptionShapePropertySectionSpec has been added to have a custom display in the VSM for provided basic shape.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.edit.api.part.AbstractDiagramBorderNodeEditPart.createNodeFigure() has been created to factorize the DNode2EditPart and DNode4EditPart constructors.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.figure.DBorderedNodeFigure.setForbiddenSides(int...) has been added to set the figure forbidden sides on its parent.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.figure.DBorderedNodeFigure.getAuthorizedSides() has been added to retrieve the figure authorized side (by default all sides).
Added The following protected methods have been added to org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.figure.SVGFigure : String getKey(Graphics), Image getImage(Rectangle, Graphics), static boolean doRemoveFromCache(String).
Added 2 methods are added in org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.part.DiagramEditPartService to manage gradient color in export to PNG or SVG formats: DiagramEditPartService.saveSVGToFile(IPath, SiriusDiagramSVGGenerator, IProgressMonitor) and org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.part.DiagramEditPartService.saveToFile(IPath, SiriusDiagramSVGGenerator, ImageFileFormat, IProgressMonitor). These 2 methods are copy of parent methods with SiriusDiagramSVGGenerator as parameter instead of a DiagramSVGGenerator.
Added The method org.eclipse.sirius.ui.tools.api.color.VisualBindingManager.getGradientPaintFromValue(int, int, int, int, Color, Color) has been added to handle a cache for java.awt.GradientPaint as it is the case for org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Pattern with getPatternFromValue().
Added Methods have been added in org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.figure.GradientHelper to handle java.awt.GradientPaint as org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Pattern: getGradientPaintDiag(Rectangle, Color, Color), getGradientPaintLeftToRight(Rectangle, Color, Color), getGradientPaintTopToBottom(Rectangle, Color, Color) and getGradientPaint(int, Rectangle, Color, Color).
Added org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.ui.actions.ActionIds.ACTION_SIRIUS_COPY_APPEARANCE_PROPERTIES has been added to identify the new Sirius Copy Appearence Properties action.
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.figure.BundleImageFigure now overrides the method setBorder(Border border). It also provides the accessors for the new field mainBorderSize.
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.figure.BundledImageFigure now inherits directly from SVGFigure instead of AbstractCachedSVGFigure.
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.figure.SVGWorkspaceImageFigure now inherits directly from SVGFigure instead of AbstractCachedSVGFigure.
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.figure.SVGFigure now implements interfaces StyledFigure, ITransparentFigure and ImageFigureWithAlpha.
Removed The following mehtods have been removed from org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.figure.SVGFigure: NodeList getNodes(String), Color getColor(Element, String), void updateRenderingHints(Graphics), staticImage toSWT(Device, BufferedImage), boolean checkContentAvailable(), Rectangle2D getAreaOfInterest(), void setAreaOfInterest(Rectangle2D), boolean isSpecifyCanvasWidth(), void setSpecifyCanvasWidth(boolean), boolean isSpecifyCanvasHeight(), void setSpecifyCanvasHeight(boolean), boolean getSpecifyCanvasWidth(), boolean getSpecifyCanvasHeight().
Removed The class org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.figure.AbstractCachedSVGFigure has been removed. Its functionality was merged directly into SVGFigure.
Removed The static org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.figure.SVGWorkspaceImageFigure.createImageFigure(ContainerStyle) method has been removed; it was broken and not called anywhere.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.ext.emf.ui`

Modified org.eclipse.sirius.ext.emf.ui.properties.ExtensiblePropertySource.collector field is now in protected visibility to be modifiable and accessible by subclass.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.ext.gmf.runtime`

Added The interface org.eclipse.sirius.ext.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.tools.MoveInDiagramDragTracker has been added to declare states used by all DragTrackers which manage move in diagram using mouse middle click.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.ui`

Added org.eclipse.sirius.ui.tools.api.properties.SiriusExtensiblePropertyDescriptor has been added to provide a specific ExtensiblePropertyDescriptor which test IPermissionAuthority to make properties view editable or not.
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.ui.tools.api.properties.SiriusExtensiblePropertySource has been modified to use SiriusExtensiblePropertyDescriptor to provide not editable properties view when the object, selected from the Model Explorer view, cannot be modified.
Removed The org.eclipse.sirius.ui, and thus the whole org.eclipse.sirius.runtime feature no longer depends on the JDT (technically the dependency towards org.eclipse.jdt.core has been removed). If you need the JDT Core in your environment, you will need to add the dependency explicitly. The Sirius specification environment ( org.eclipse.sirius.editor) still depends on PDE (and thus indirectly the JDT too).

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.tests.junit.support`

Added The class org.eclipse.sirius.tests.support.api.DefaultTestMemento has been created. It help to simulate a real IMemento for editor restoration.
Added The method SiriusTestCase.initViewpoint(String, Session, boolean) has been added to allow viewpoint activation without creating representations.
Added The methods initLoggers() and disposeLoggers() of class org.eclipse.sirius.tests.support.api.SiriusTestCase have now a protected visibility (instead of private) to allow subclasses to use this logger without all the genericSetUp behavior.
Deprecated The method SiriusTestCase.initViewpoint(String, Session, EObject) has been deprecated because the last parameter is useless to activate a viewpoint.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support`

Added The method getTreeItem(final SWTBotTreeItem[], final String) has been added in org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support.utils to retrieve recursively a SWTBotTreeItem in a SWTBotTreeItem array.
Added The class org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support.api.condition.ShellChangedCondition has been added to wait until the current active shell has changed.
Added The class org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support.api.condition.TreeItemWithImageCondition has been added to wait until the given treeItem has the expected image.
Modified A second String parameter has been added to the method org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support.api.business.UILocalSession.newDiagramRepresentation(String, String). This parameter is the label of the representation description. It is necessary since the change of the wizard to ask the new representation name (see User-Visible Changes for detail).
Modified A third String parameter has been added to the constructor of org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support.api.business.UINewRepresentationBuilder for the same above reasons.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.common.xtext`

Modified The dependency from org.eclipse.sirius.common.xtext to the JDT plug-in org.eclipse.jdt.core is now optional. If you need the JDT Core in your environment, you will need to add the dependency explicitly. The Sirius specification environment ( org.eclipse.sirius.editor) still depends on PDE (and thus indirectly the JDT too).

Changes in Sirius 3.1.0

User-Visible Changes

Added A new feature allows to snap to all shapes (instead of just to snap to sibling shapes). The F4 shortcut key activates this mode when you resize a node, move a node or move a bendpoint of an edge, see the documentation for details.
Added A new feature allows to move the edge group (Edge, Label, Border Nodes) if the F3 shortcut is pressed during the edge moving/dragging. This feature is only available for the case of edges with border node as source and target. See documentation for more details.
Added The label of edges now stays as much as possible near the edge when it is moved.

Sample before Sirius 3.1:

Same sample since Sirius 3.1:

Added It is now possible to collapse compartments using the handle visible on the following illustrations. The handle’s position varies depending on the label alignment to avoid overlapping (depending on the list elements alignment for a list with an hidden label).

Modified The Snap to Grid and Snap to Shapes features are now automatically disabled on Sequence diagrams. As indicated in the user documentation, to work correctly, Sirius sequence diagrams must have a tight control on where the graphical elements are placed on the diagram and on their synchronization with the underlying semantic model. Previously, the user had to explicitely disable the snap features.
Modified The Link with Editor behavior has changed. The link with editor was previously unidirectional from the Common Navigator (Model Explorer view or Project view) toward the active representation. Now, when selecting one or several elements in the representation, the corresponding semantic elements are selected in the Common Navigator.
Modified The Arrange Linked Bordered Nodes tabbar action has been renamed to Arrange Linked Border Nodes as it is border nodes which are layouted and not bordered nodes.

Specifier-Visible Changes

Modified The Acceleo Query Language (AQL) interpreter has been improved. AQL, and its support in Sirius, is no longer considered experimental, and instead is now the recommended query language to use for new VSMs. Improvements mostly concern better completion and validation, and more precise error reporting. In particular AQL expressions will now be able to display warnings and errors in the Interpreter view. The message displayed in the Interpreter view after an evaluation has also been improved to display the qualified name of the type of the value computed ( ePackageName::eClassName). The improvements realized can be viewed by clicking on the image below (click to zoom).

Modified Related to the previous point, the projects created by the Viewpoint Specification Project wizard are now configured to use AQL by default (instead of Acceleo 3/MTL before). They depend on org.eclipse.sirius.common.acceleo.aql instead of org.eclipse.sirius.common.acceleo.mtl, and do not have the Acceleo nature anymore (it is not needed by AQL). If you want to use another language in your queries, make sure you set the appropriate dependencies so that the Sirius support for that language will be present at runtime to interpret the queries.
Modified The support for containers with vertical or horizontal compartments on diagrams was introduced in Sirius 3.0.0 as an experimental feature. Several improvements and corrections have been done around the behaviors of this feature which is no longer considered experimental. Validation rules and tooltips in the VSM editor are here to help the specifier create a consistent mapping structure.
Modified Experimental New, experimental support for recursive compartments on diagrams: the children presentation property of a Container Mapping, which is defined as a compartment (its parent ContainerMapping has a VerticalStack or HorizontalStack children presentation), can now also be set to Vertical Stack and Horizontal Stack. It allows to define complex stacks of compartments mixing both stack directions. While working reliably, this support is marked experimental in Sirius 3.1.0 as there are still some behaviors which do not behave as expected. If you make use of this feature, be aware that some details may still change in future releases, including 3.1.x maintenance releases.
Modified You now really have the capability to set the BorderSizeComputationExpression as 0 for style of ContainerMapping. Before Sirius 3.1.0, a size of 0 was interpreted as 1 at runtime. For compatibility reason, all existing BorderSizeComputationExpression equals to 0 for style of ContainerMapping are automatically set to 1 (ditto for results of this expression in representations file for container elements). For ContainerMapping, the default value of BorderSizeComputationExpression for new style is now 1, except for Worskpace Image where the value is 0.
Modified The delete command availability computation has been changed. In case of a delete tool, the availability is now computed considering first the precondition of the tool and then the delete authorisation (using IPermissionAuthority) of the potential to delete objects. This is the reverse order of what was done before, and can have performance impacts if the precondition is slow. The specifier will to take care to ensure a good performance for the precondition expression of the delete tool.

Developer-Visible Changes

Partial support for internationalization

Sirius 3.1 introduces partial support for internationalization: all literal strings from the runtime part of Sirius are now externalized and can be localized by third parties by providing the appropriate “language packs” as OSGi fragments. Note that this does not concern the VSM editor’s UI, the VSMs themselves, or the parts of the UI inherited from Eclipse/EMF/GEF/GMF and other libraries and frameworks used by Sirius.

Some API changes were required to enable this. While technically breaking changes if interpreting strictly the OSGi versioning rules, the major version number of the impacted bundles was not incremented as the changes only concern classes that should not impact the vast majority of users. Most breaking changes concern the plug-in/activator classes from each bundle. They are:

Added org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.layoutdata.LayoutDataPlugin, a subclass of org.eclipse.emf.common.EMFPlugin has been added. The corresponding OSGi bundle activator is the internal class LayoutDataPlugin.Implementation.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.sequence.SequenceDiagramPlugin, a subclass of org.eclipse.emf.common.EMFPlugin has been added. The corresponding OSGi bundle activator is the internal class SequenceDiagramPlugin.Implementation.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.common.xtext.internal.XtextIntegrationPlugin, a subclass of org.eclipse.emf.common.EMFPlugin has been added. The corresponding OSGi bundle activator is the internal class XtextIntegrationPlugin.Implementation.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.ext.base.BasePlugin, a subclass of org.eclipse.emf.common.EMFPlugin has been added. The corresponding OSGi bundle activator is the internal class BasePlugin.Implementation.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.ext.draw2d.Draw2DExtPlugin, a subclass of org.eclipse.emf.common.EMFPlugin has been added. The corresponding OSGi bundle activator is the internal class Draw2DExtPlugin.Implementation.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.ext.e3.ui.Eclipse3UIExtPlugin, a subclass of org.eclipse.emf.common.EMFPlugin has been added. The corresponding OSGi bundle activator is the internal class Eclipse3UIExtPlugin.Implementation.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.ext.emf.EMFExtPlugin, a subclass of org.eclipse.emf.common.EMFPlugin has been added. The corresponding OSGi bundle activator is the internal class EMFExtPlugin.Implementation.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.synchronizer.internal.SynchronizerPlugin, a subclass of org.eclipse.emf.common.EMFPlugin has been added. The corresponding OSGi bundle activator is the internal class SynchronizerPlugin.Implementation.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.tree.tools.internal.TreePlugin, a subclass of org.eclipse.emf.common.EMFPlugin has been added. The corresponding OSGi bundle activator is the internal class TreePlugin.Implementation.
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.common.acceleo.mtl.ide.AcceleoMTLInterpreterIDEPlugin is no longer an OSGi BundleActivator, and instead extends org.eclipse.emf.common.EMFPlugin. The actual bundle activator is the new internal class AcceleoMTLInterpreterIDEPlugin.Implementation.
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.common.acceleo.mtl.ide.AcceleoMTLInterpreterPlugin is no longer an OSGi BundleActivator, and instead extends org.eclipse.emf.common.EMFPlugin. The actual bundle activator is the new internal class AcceleoMTLInterpreterPlugin.Implementation.
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.common.ocl.DslOclPlugin is no longer a org.eclipse.core.runtime.Plugin (nor an OSGi BundleActivator), and instead extends org.eclipse.emf.common.EMFPlugin. The actual bundle activator is the new internal class DslOclPlugin.Implementation.
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.DslCommonPlugin is no longer a org.eclipse.core.runtime.Plugin (nor an OSGi BundleActivator), and instead extends org.eclipse.emf.common.EMFPlugin. The actual bundle activator is the new internal class DslCommonPlugin.Implementation.
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.DiagramPlugin is no longer a org.eclipse.core.runtime.Plugin (nor an OSGi BundleActivator), and instead extends org.eclipse.emf.common.EMFPlugin. The actual bundle activator is the new internal class DiagramPlugin.Implementation.
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.ecore.extender.business.internal.ExtenderPlugin is no longer a org.eclipse.core.runtime.Plugin (nor an OSGi BundleActivator), and instead extends org.eclipse.emf.common.EMFPlugin. The actual bundle activator is the new internal class ExtenderPlugin.Implementation.
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.table.tools.internal.TablePlugin is no longer a org.eclipse.core.runtime.Plugin (nor an OSGi BundleActivator), and instead extends org.eclipse.emf.common.EMFPlugin. The actual bundle activator is the new internal class TablePlugin.Implementation.
Renamed, Modified org.eclipse.sirius.eef.adapters.Activator has been renamed into org.eclipse.sirius.eef.adapters.EEFAdapterPlugin and is no longer an OSGi bundle activator (hence the name change, to avoid confusion). Instead it extends org.eclipse.emf.common.EMFPlugin. The actual bundle activator is the new internal class EEFAdapterPlugin.Implementation.
Renamed, Modified org.eclipse.sirius.common.acceleo.interpreter.Activator has been renamed into org.eclipse.sirius.common.acceleo.interpreter.InterpreterViewPlugin and is no longer an OSGi bundle activator (hence the name change, to avoid confusion). Instead it extends org.eclipse.emf.common.EMFPlugin. The actual bundle activator is the new internal class InterpreterViewPlugin.Implementation.
Renamed, Modified org.eclipse.sirius.table.ui.ext.Activator has been renamed into org.eclipse.sirius.table.ui.ext.TableUIExtPlugin and is no longer an OSGi bundle activator (hence the name change, to avoid confusion). Instead it extends org.eclipse.emf.common.EMFPlugin. The actual bundle activator is the new internal class TableUIExtPlugin.Implementation.
Renamed, Modified org.eclipse.sirius.ui.ext.Activator has been renamed into org.eclipse.sirius.ui.ext.SiriusUIExtPlugin and is no longer an OSGi bundle activator (hence the name change, to avoid confusion). Instead it extends org.eclipse.emf.common.EMFPlugin. The actual bundle activator is the new internal class SiriusUIExtPlugin.Implementation.
Renamed, Modified org.eclipse.sirius.tree.ui.ext.Activator has been renamed into org.eclipse.sirius.tree.ui.ext.TreeUIExtPlugin and is no longer an OSGi bundle activator (hence the name change, to avoid confusion). Instead it extends org.eclipse.emf.common.EMFPlugin. The actual bundle activator is the new internal class TreeUIExtPlugin.Implementation.
Renamed org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.sequence.ui.SequenceDiagramPlugin has been renamed into org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.sequence.ui.SequenceDiagramUIPlugin for consistency and to avoid potential name clashes with the new org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.sequence.SequenceDiagramPlugin.

Additional non-breaking changes:

Added org.eclipse.sirius.ext.base.I18N has been added. It provides common utility code to support internationalization.
Added The translation keys (and default values) have been added to all the concerned bundles, in their plugin.properties file. These (translated) messages are available at runtime as static fields of new Messages classes, added to all concerned bundles (always in the same package as their plug-in/activator class). The concerned bundles are:
- org.eclipse.sirius
- org.eclipse.sirius.ext.base
- org.eclipse.sirius.ecore.extender
- org.eclipse.sirius.synchronizer
- org.eclipse.sirius.common
- org.eclipse.sirius.common.acceleo.aql
- org.eclipse.sirius.common.acceleo.aql.ide
- org.eclipse.sirius.common.acceleo.mtl
- org.eclipse.sirius.common.acceleo.mtl.ide
- org.eclipse.sirius.common.ui
- org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.layoutdata
- org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.sequence
- org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.sequence.ui
- org.eclipse.sirius.diagram
- org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui
- org.eclipse.sirius.eef.adapters
- org.eclipse.sirius.interpreter
- org.eclipse.sirius.table
- org.eclipse.sirius.table.ui
- org.eclipse.sirius.tree
- org.eclipse.sirius.tree.ui
- org.eclipse.sirius.ui

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.common`

Added The method invokeMethod has been added in class org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.util.ReflectionHelper to call a private method. Warning: This method must be used carefully.
Added The method invokeMethodWithoutException has been added in class org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.util.ReflectionHelper to call a private method. This method returns true (and not the result of the method) if it is called without exception. It returns false otherwise. Warning: This method must be used carefully.

Added The new interface org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.interpreter.IInterpreterWithDiagnostic has been added. It allows an interpreter to evaluate an expression and return not only the result of the evaluation but also a diagnostic.
Added The new class org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.contentassist.ContentProposalWithReplacement has been added. It allows interpreters to provide proposals for the code completion which can replace an existing part of the expression used. This behavior can be used if the user has started to type a value that would be returned by the code completion. For example, if the user types aql:self.na and if he selects the content proposal name, it can replace the existing part of the expression na to write aql:self.name instead of just appending name to create aql:self.naname.
Added The new class org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.contentassist.ContentProposalBuilder used to build the content proposals with their various parameters more easily.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius`

Added The method addEvaluateSelectionExpressionTask has been added in class org.eclipse.sirius.tools.api.command.AbstractCommandFactory to allow selection after tool execution.
Added The class org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.interpreter.StandardServices has been added. This class owns methods used for service: interpreter.
Added The class org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.extender.MetamodelDescriptorProvider2 has been added and should be preferred instead of implementing MetamodelDescriptorProvider.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.componentization.ViewpointRegistryImpl.addViewpointFileCollector() method has been added to replace deprecated ViewpointRegistryImpl.addSiriusFileCollector().
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.ecore.extender.business.api.permission.IPermissionAuthority.canDeleteInstance(EObject) when called for an object will not be called for children of this object as we know it will return true because if we can delete a parent object we can delete its children.
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.tools.api.command.DCommand no longer inherits from IUndoableCommand since undo/redo is managed by EMF Transaction.
Deprecated org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.componentization.ViewpointRegistryImpl.addSiriusFileCollector() method has been deprecated as it is about ViewpointFileCollector and not SiriusFileCollector.
Removed org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.helper.task.ICommandTask.undo()/redo() methods removed because they are useless since undo/redo is managed by EMF Transaction.
Removed org.eclipse.sirius.tools.api.command.IUndoableCommand interface removed because it is useless since undo/redo is managed by EMF Transaction.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.ui`

Added org.eclipse.sirius.ui.business.api.session.SessionEditorInput.getInput() method has been added to get the real input for a DRepresentation.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.ui.business.api.session.SessionEditorInput.getSession(boolean) method has been added to let the caller choose to create and open a new Session or not when the known session is closed or does not exist. The getSession method calls getSession(true).
Added org.eclipse.sirius.ui.business.api.dialect.DialectUIServices.selectAndReveal(DialectEditor, List<DRepresentationElement>) method has been added to explicitly indicate to reveal elements out of the screen (hidden because of the scrollbars location) when selecting them.
Deprecated org.eclipse.sirius.ui.business.api.session.SessionEditorInput.dispose() method has been deprecated as an IEditorInput can be reused by several instances of IEditorPart through the navigation history view.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui`

Added The class org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.graphical.edit.policies.RegionRegionContainerResizableEditPolicy has been added to handle DNodeContainer which are both Region and RegionContainer: during resize they might have to propagate the resize to their children and/or parents.
Added The constant org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.layout.LayoutUtils.COLLAPSED_VERTICAL_REGION_HEIGHT has been added to centralize the minimum height of a collapsed Region from a Region Container with a vertical stack children presentation.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.edit.api.part.IDiagramNodeEditPart/IDiagramBorderNodeEditPart.getNodeLabel() methods has been moved up to org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.edit.api.part.IAbstractDiagramNodeEditPart.getNodeLabel() as both IDiagramNodeEditPart and IDiagramBorderNodeEditPart inherits of IAbstractDiagramNodeEditPart.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.ui.actions.ActionIds.ARRANGE_BORDER_NODES added to replace org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.ui.actions.ActionIds.ARRANGE_BORDERED_NODES_TOOLBAR which is deprecated
Added org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.ui.actions.ActionIds.ARRANGE_BORDER_NODES_TOOLBAR added to replace org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.ui.actions.ActionIds.ARRANGE_BORDERED_NODES which is deprecated
Added org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.graphical.edit.policies.SetConnectionBendpointsAndLabelCommmand is a new class that allows to update edge label when updating bendpoints. Several existing Sirius commands now extends this new class.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.decorators.AbstractSiriusDecorator.shouldBeVisibleAtPrint() method added to leave AbstractSiriusDecorator extenders indicate if decoration should be visible at diagram export/print.
Deprecated org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.ui.actions.ActionIds.ARRANGE_BORDERED_NODES deprecated in favor org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.ui.actions.ActionIds.ARRANGE_BORDER_NODES as it is an action id about border nodes layout.
Deprecated org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.ui.actions.ActionIds.ARRANGE_BORDERED_NODES_TOOLBAR deprecated in favor org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.ui.actions.ActionIds.ARRANGE_BORDER_NODES_TOOLBAR as it is an action id about border nodes layout.
Removed org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.graphical.edit.policies.EdgeCreationEditPolicy has been removed as it should not be in API and has been replaced by internal org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.internal.edit.policies.SiriusConnectionEditPolicy.
Removed The method setUseLocalCoordinates(boolean) has been removed from org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.figure.GradientRoundedRectangle, org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.figure.ViewNodeContainerParallelogram, org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.figure.ViewNodeContainerRectangleFigureDesc as it was generated by GMF tooling and never used in Sirius whose edit parts and edit policies expect org.eclipse.draw2d.IFigure.useLocalCoordinates() to always return false for its figures.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.synchronizer`

Added org.eclipse.sirius.synchronizer.CreatedOutput.synchronizeChildren() method takes now a RefreshPlan in parameter to have more informations to say if children must be synchronized.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.tests.junit.support`

Added The class org.eclipse.sirius.tests.support.api.AbstractToolDescriptionTestCase has been created. It contains utility methods about tools.
Modified The class org.eclipse.sirius.tests.support.api.SiriusDiagramTestCase has been modified
- Modified It now inherits from AbstractToolDescriptionTestCase
- Added The method applyContainerCreationTool(String,DDiagram,EObject) has been added.
- Added The method applyGenericTool(String,DDiagram,EObject) has been added.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support`

Added The methods closePerspective(String), closeSiriusPerspective() and closeModelingPerspective() have been added in class org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support.api.perspective.DesignerPerspectives to allow the closing of perspectives.
Added The org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support.api.condition.PerspectiveActivatedCondition new offers the capability to inverse the test. This condition becomes a DeactivatedCondition instead of an ActivatedCondition by using the new constructor with inverse parameter.
Added The methods isSnapToShape and isSnapToGrid() have been added in class org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support.api.editor.SWTBotSiriusDiagramEditor. They allow to know the state of the corresponding properties.
Added The method org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support.api.editor.SWTBotSiriusDiagramEditor.dragWithKey(int, int, int, int, int) (and also SWTBotSiriusGefViewer.dragWithKey and SWTBotSiriusFigureCanvas.mouseDragWithKey), has an additional fifth parameter compared to drag(int, int, int, int) method, to indicate the key code to press during the drag’n’drop. It is possible to call this method with SWT.None to obtain the standard behavior of drag method. This method also has a correct behavior for the move of bendpoints of edges.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support.api.condition.TopCondition: New condition to wait that top of the edit part is on the expected location.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support.api.condition.BendpointLocationCondition: New condition to wait that a bendpoint is on the expected x or y location.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support.api.condition.TreeChildrenNumberCondition: New condition to wait that a tree has the expected number of children.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support.utils.SWTBotCommonHelper.saveCurrentEditor(Session): This new method is preferable to saveCurrentEditor() because there is a wait condition to ensure that the save is finished.
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support.api.condition.CheckBoundsCondition: This condition now also checks the bounds location if the checkWidth or checkHeight (or both) is false.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.ext.gef`

Added The new class org.eclipse.sirius.ext.gef.query.EditPartQuery has been added. It allows to retrieve all children of the current part.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.ext.jface`

Added The new class org.eclipse.sirius.ext.jface.viewers.IToolTipProvider has been copied from JFace 3.10 from Luna, so that we can use it with Juno and Kepler too.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.ext.gmf.runtime`

Added Two new getIntersection methods have been added in org.eclipse.sirius.ext.gmf.runtime.editparts.GraphicalHelper. They are similar to the existing getIntersection methods, but they consider the nearest point on the figure if there is no intersection.

Changes in Sirius 3.0.0

User-Visible Changes

Added The ability to print table representations has been re-introduced.
Added The quick outline feature has been added for tree and table editors, see documentation for details.
Added The label of a list or container can now be hidden by the user from the outline, the tabbar or the contextual menu.
Added In the Appearance tab, in addition to Bold and Italic, it is now possible to set the font formatting style to Underline and Strike through (or any combination of these).
Added Container elements on diagrams now support vertical and horizontal compartments layout (this is only visible if the modeler configuration makes use of this new feature).
Added In table and tree editors, a Refresh can now be launched by hitting F5 like in diagrams (previously the only way was to click on the Refresh icon or menu item).
Added In table editors, hitting the Del key is now equivalent to selecting Delete Line in the context menu.
Added On diagrams, it is now possible to set a custom background image on list containers.
Modified In the Viewpoint Selection dialog and wizard page, the “plug-in” decorator for viewpoints loaded from plug-ins is removed, and a “Folder” decorator for viewpoints loaded from the current workspace has been added. This makes the icons more visible in the most common where viewpoints come from installed plug-ins.

Specifier-Visible Changes

Added Experimental Optional support for the experimental Acceleo Query Language (AQL) has been added to write interpreted expressions. It is provided by the org.eclipse.sirius.common.acceleo.aql (required for evaluating the expressions) and org.eclipse.sirius.common.acceleo.aql.ide (optional, only needed to provide specification-time features like expression completion) plug-ins. AQL is similar to Acceleo 3/MTL, but simpler and provides much better performance in the Sirius context. If you make use of this feature, be aware that some details may still change in future releases, including 3.0.x maintenance releases. See the AQL documentation for more details on the language itself.
Added Experimental New, experimental support for containers with vertical or horizontal compartments on diagrams: the children presentation property of a Container Mapping has two new values: Vertical Stack and Horizontal Stack. They indicate that a container will present its children containers as a vertical/horizontal stack of compartments. While working reliably, this support is marked experimental in Sirius 3.0.0 as there are still some combinations of mappings, styles and behaviors which do not behave as expected. If you make use of this feature, be aware that some details may still change in future releases, including 3.0.x maintenance releases.
Added Everywhere an image path can be configured in the VSM, a new button is present on the right of the text field. It opens a dialog to select an image, either from the workspace or from an installed plug-in.
Added Everywhere an interpreted expression can be configured in the VSM, a new button is present on the right of the text field. It opens a multi-line dialog to edit long expression more easily. Auto-completion is supported inside the multi-line dialog.
Added Compressed SVG images ( *.svgz) are now supported everywhere normal SVG images were supported.
Added When developing a modeler in “live mode”, with the VSM in the same workspace as the sample session(s) which use it, VSM expressions which use service: or aql: can now invoke Java services which are defined in the workspace (with no need to launch a separate runtime).
Added A quick outline is now accessible in the VSM editor by using the shortcut Ctrl+o. It supports filtering on both an element’s name and properties for quick, keyboard-only navigation in complex VSMs.
Added The “hide label by default capability” has been added to the container styles.
Added In addition to Bold and Italic, Underline and Strike Through styles have been added on the label font format.
Improved Many VSM elements which are required are now created automatically. For example the default layer of a Diagram Description is automatically added to new Diagram Descriptions.
Improved Some default values have been modified to better reflect actual usage. This does not impact existing VSM and only applies to newly created elements.
- The label position on a Node mapping is now node by default (instead of border before).
- The Arc Width and Arc Height are now 10 by default (instead of 1 before).
- The Enable popup bars is now set by default on new diagrams.
- No default value for interpreted expressions use the Acceleo 3 / MTL syntax anymore, but only use the core var: and feature: interpreters, which are always present.
Improved The precision of the VSM validation, especially regarding the typing of computed expressions, has been greatly improved. Other validation rules like static image paths have also been added or improved.
Modified In the VSM editor, the context menu entries (categories and items) have been reorganized to put most common actions/items first.
Modified In diagrams, the style previously named “Lozenge” is now called “Diamond”.
Modified In the Open menu on a representation, the menu is computed from the navigation tool’s label instead of its name/id.
Modified All Acceleo 3 references have been removed from the Sirius metamodels to avoid a dependency to Acceleo 3. An automatic migration has been added during the loading of the VSM to avoid a change of behavior. This migration adds explicitly the old default value ( [eContents()->size()/]) in the VSM, that was implicit before. Customers who want to completely remove this dependency must remove the Acceleo 3 expressions from there VSM after the migration.
Modified The default icons paths of Selection Wizard and Pane-Based Selection Wizard used to reference invalid icons, so the corresponding tools had no icon per default in the palette. The default icons paths have been corrected to reference the icons displayed for those elements in the VSM editor.
Modified " *" can now be used as feature name of a table’s Feature Column to skip the feature name validation during the cell creation. This allow to compute the label of cells for lines whose semantic element types have no common EStructuralFeature (inherited or with same name).

Developer-Visible Changes

The most important and impacting changes in this release are (details below in plug-in specific sections):

Added The new extension point org.eclipse.sirius.ui.siriuspropertiescelleditor, defined in org.eclipse.sirius.ui, can be used to provide customized cell editors for semantic element’s properties as shown in the properties view on a Sirius representation.
Added The new class org.eclipse.sirius.eef.components.SiriusAwarePropertiesEditingComponent can be used as root class of the generated EEF components to greatly improve performances when using both EEF properties views with Sirius representations.
Modified The minimum version of EEF required for using org.eclipse.sirius.eef.adapters is now 1.5.0 (from 1.2 before). EEF 1.5 is source and binary-compatible with EEF 1.2 to 1.4, and no re-generation of the EEF views should be needed to switch to 1.5.
Modified The org.eclipse.sirius.business.internal.session.IsModifiedSavingPolicy saving policy, introduced in Sirius 2.0.0 but not enabled at that time is now the default. The previous implementation, org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.session.SavingPolicyImpl is still available if needed.
Modified All metamodels defined by Sirius have been modified to use EMF’s MinimalEObjectImpl.Container as base class, which reduces memory consumption compared to previous versions.
Modified The RGBValues type used in Sirius to represent colors has been converted into an immutable EMF EDataType, which also reduces memory consumption compared to previous versions.
Modified The AirdResourceImpl type, use for the *.aird resources, no longer inherits from GMF’s GMFResource or depend on GMF in any way. This makes the org.eclipse.sirius now completely independent on GMF.
Modified The DAnalsysis.models reference has been replaced by the DAnalsysis.semanticModels attribute, in conjunction with the new ResourceDescriptor data-type. The DAnalysis.getModels() Java method is still present for compatibility and returns the same values, but the returned list can not be modified. All changes must be made directly on DAnalsysis.semanticModels and will be reflected in the value returned by DAnalysis.getModels(). While not technically deprecated yet, DAnalysis.getModels() should be avoided and may be removed in a future release.
Moved Extensions in plugin.xml that provide UI functionalities have been moved to new org.eclipse.sirius.*.ext plug-ins, to make the contributions to the UI optional. If your product consumed directly the Sirius plug-ins instead of the high-level features, you may need to add the new plug-ins if you want the Sirius UI contributions to stay available.
Removed Many unused types defined in the metamodels have been removed. This should not impact normal client code. Existing models will be automatically migrated on loading if needed.
Removed Sirius no longer installs the AirDCrossReferenceAdapterImpl, which was a subclass of GMF’s CrossReferenceAdapter on session resources ( *.aird). If your code relied on GMF’s implementation to find inverse references, it can use the Sirius session’s Session.getSemanticCrossReferencer() instead, which provides the same service (and more) and avoids the redundant installation of GMF’s version.

Packaging changes:

Added Two new feature have been added concerning the new support for the AQL language:
- org.eclipse.sirius.runtime.aql includes the minimum required to execute AQL queries at runtime. It must be present on end-users' systems for modelers which use AQL expressions to work.
- org.eclipse.sirius.aql includes both the runtime requirements and the development-time features like support for auto-completion of AQL expressions in the VSM editor.
Added The new feature org.eclipse.sirius.specifier includes everything needed to have a complete Sirius specification environment, with support for all dialects. It includes support for Acceleo 3/MTL queries, but not for AQL (provided by org.eclipse.sirius.aql) or OCL (provided by org.eclipse.sirius.runtime.ocl). Future Sirius releases will probably swap AQL and Acceleo 3, making AQL the defaut and part of the main feature, and Acceleo 3/MTL optional in a separate feature.
Added All Sirius releases and milestones are available as zipped archives in addition to a normal p2 repository/update-site. For each version and platform (e.g. 3.0.0 on Eclipse Mars), two archives are available: one with the Sirius core, and one with the Sirius automated test suites and the sample modelers they rely on. See the Sirius wiki and release pages for more details and links to these archives, for example http://download.eclipse.org/sirius/updates/releases/2.0.5/. This is retro-active on all previously released versions of Sirius, but not on milestones before 3.0.0.

Other changes:

Added Sirius now provides an Oomph setup file to automatically create a fully configured Eclipse installation ready for contributing patches to Sirius. The latest version can be obtained here.
Added New patches proposed by contributors on the Sirius Gerrit now automatically trigger a sub-set of the Sirius automated test suites, which give a good feedback on the absence of regressions introduced by the proposed patch.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.common`

Added The org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.util.SiriusCrossReferenceAdapter interface and the org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.util.SiriusCrossReferenceAdapterImpl have been added to have the capability to disable the proxy resolution. This feature is typically used to prevent loading a resource during its unloading. Warning : Every additional custom CrossReferenceAdapter should extend SiriusCrossReferenceAdapterImpl or at least implement SiriusCrossReferenceAdapter with the same implementation as SiriusCrossReferenceAdapterImpl.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.util.ECrossReferenceAdapterWithUnproxyCapability is a specific kind of SiriusCrossReferenceAdapter. It provides the capability to resolve all proxy cross references to a given resource. It is now used by the Session as semantic cross referencer. This type is exposed as API but it is not intended to be used/referenced/extended by user code (as the below LazyCrossReferencer type).
Added The static method org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.util.ReflectionHelper.getFieldValueWithoutException(Class<?>, String) has been added to return an internal static value of a class.
Added org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.resource.ResourceSetSync has a new state CHANGES_CANCELED used to define the state where the user canceled its changes.
Added The org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.resource.ImageFileFormat class has been added (it was in org.eclipse.sirius.ext.swt before).
Added The method org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.util.EclipseUtil.getConfigurationElementsFor() has been added: it calls org.eclipse.core.runtime.Platform.getExtensionRegistry().getConfigurationElementsFor() only if Platform.isRunning().
Added The interface org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.migration.IMigrationParticipant exposes a new method postXMLEndElement([..]) which is called during a migration operation. This method should be overridden by participants which have to hook the loading process after each end of XML tag. The corresponding abstract class org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.migration.AbstractMigrationParticipant provides a default empty implementation.
Added A new class org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.interpreter.JavaExtensionsManager can now be used by langages interpreters to benefit from a consistent handling of Java extensions and support for loading Java services from the workspace.
Added The class org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.interpreter.TypeName has been introduced to represent in the codebase any type which was previously represented as a plain String.
Added A new interface org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.interpreter.TypedValidation has been introduced for IInterpreter implementations able to provide richer information when validating an expression. This information is captured through a org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.interpreter.ValidationResult instance.
Added The class org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.interpreter.VariableType has been introduced to represent the possible types a variable can have in a Viewpoint specification model.
Added The utility class org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.interpreter.IInterpreterContextUtils has been introduced to factorize code related to managing IInterpreterContext instances.
Added The class org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.dialect.description.MultiLanguagesValidator has been introduced to provide a safe and more efficient way to switch to the proper IInterpreter instance when validating expressions.
Added Removed The class org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.util.RefreshIdFactory has been replaced with org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.util.RefreshIdsHolder which no longer rely on a global singleton but attach information to an EObject representing the current scope. This impacts org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.business.api.query.AbstractDNodeQuery , org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.util.CartesianProduct and org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.util.EObjectCouple which are now requiring now a RefreshIdsHolder instance.
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.util.LazyCrossReferencer now extends ECrossReferenceAdapterWithUnproxyCapability and implements resolveProxyCrossReferences(Resource).
Moved The org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.util.LazyCrossReferencer.enableResolve() and disableResolve() methods has been moved to SiriusCrossReferenceAdapter.enableResolveProxy() and disableResolveProxy().
Modified The static method org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.interpreter.DefaultInterpreterContextFactory.createInterpreterContext(...) now requires a Map<String, VariableType> for the accessible variables instead of a Map<String, String>.
Modified The methods org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.interpreter.IInterpreterContext.getVariables() and org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.dialect.description.IInterpretedExpressionQuery.getAvailableVariables() are now returning a map containing VariableType instances instead of encoded Strings.
Modified The method org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.interpreter.IInterpreterStatus.getTargetTypes() no longer returns a list of encoded Strings but a VariableType instance instead.
Deprecated The method org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.interpreter.IInterpreterContext.getTargetTypes() has been deprecated in favor of org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.interpreter.IInterpreterContext.getTargetType() which returns a VariableType instance instead of encoded Strings.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.common.ui`

Added Classes from org.eclipse.sirius.common.ui.tools.api.dialog.quickoutline packages are available in API to allow editor to provide quick outline feature easily.
Added The methods displaySyncExec(Runnable) , displayAsyncExec(Runnable) and synchronizeWithUIThread() have been added in class org.eclipse.sirius.common.ui.tools.api.util.EclipseUIUtil to encapsulate accesses to the current Display instance.
Moved Extensions in plugin.xml that provide UI functionalities have been moved to org.eclipse.sirius.common.ui.ext.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius`

Added The method org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.session.danalysis.DAnalysisSessionHelper.findContainerForAddedRepresentation(DAnalysis, DRepresentation) has been added to return a DRepresentationContainer from the DAnalysis parameter and the added DRepresentation.
Added The method org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.migration.IMigrationParticipant.updateCreatedObject(EObject newObject, String loadedVersion) has been added to update object values in VSM before loading this objects from XML file.
Added The method org.eclipse.sirius.tools.api.ui.RefreshEditorsPrecommitListener.disable() has been added to disable the next refresh attempt in the current precommit loop iteration.
Added The new constant org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.helper.SiriusUtil.ENVIRONMENT_URI_SCHEME declares environment URI scheme.
Added The new constant org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.helper.SiriusUtil.VIEWPOINT_ENVIRONMENT_RESOURCE_URI declares environment:/viewpoint resource URI.
Added The new constant org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.description.util.DescriptionResourceImpl.OPTION_SIRIUS_USE_URI_FRAGMENT_AS_ID added to define a option to enable the use of a id map for odesign resource, id being uri’s fragment.
Added The query org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.query.EObjectQuery has now a new constructor with an additional parameter, ECrossReferenceAdapter. This can be usefull if there is many calls to inverse references methods for the same Session. This avoids to get the semantic cross referencer from the EObject each time. This query also proposes a new method getInverseReferences(Set<EReference>).
Added There is a new capability on Dialect. This capability is to refresh only impacted elements concerned by a list of notifications. It is used, for example, to refresh the opened representations when the user chooses manual refresh mode. Each dialect that want to offer this capability must implement org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.dialect.DialectServices.refreshImpactedElements(DRepresentation, Collection<Notification>, IProgressMonitor). A default implementation that does nothing is done in org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.dialect.AbstractRepresentationDialectServices.
Added A new method has been added in the query org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.query.DAnalysisQuery named getMainModels(). This method returns a Set of the main model and the other non controlled models.
Added A new method has been added in org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.DAnalysis named getSemanticResources(). This method returns a list of org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.resource.ResourceDescriptor which is a descriptor of the semantic resource.
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.RGBValues has been changed from an EClass to an EDataType, it is not an EObject anymore.
Added The API org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.metamodel.helper.FontFormatHelper has been added. It helps to update label format multi valued features.
Modified org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.session.SessionListener.SEMANTIC_CHANGE is no more send to SessionListener and SessionManagerListener listeners on save when a semantic resource is saved. Use a ResourceSyncClient listener on ResourceSetSync to have know if a semantic resource is saved.
Modified The default constructor has been changed in org.eclipse.sirius.tools.api.command.semantic.RemoveSemanticResourceCommand.
- The boolean value removeReferencingResources has been added to indicate if the referencing resources are also to remove.
- The boolean value removeFromControlledResources has been removed because controlled resources are managed internally.
Modified The boolean value removeReferencingResources has been added in org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.session.Session.removeSemanticResource method to indicate if the referencing resources are also to remove.
Modified The getModels() method in org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.DAnalysis returns a non-modifiable list. Use getSemanticResources() instead.
Moved The isBbocked() and setBlocked() methods on the org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.DAnalysisSessionEObject EClass have been removed, as they were not actually used in the internal code.
Deprecated org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.helper.task.ICommandTask.undo()/redo() methods are deprecated because they are useless since undo/redo is managed by EMF Transaction.
Deprecated org.eclipse.sirius.tools.api.command.IUndoableCommand interface are deprecated because it is useless since undo/redo is managed by EMF Transaction.
Deprecated org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.helper.task.TaskExecutor.undo()/redo() methods are deprecated because they are useless since undo/redo is managed by EMF Transaction.
Removed The org.eclipse.sirius.business.api.session.Session.createSemanticResource() method has been removed. Use Session.addSemanticResource() instead.
Removed The ExtendedPackage EDataType which was defined in the http://www.eclipse.org/sirius/1.1.0 package was not actually used anywhere and has been removed.
Removed The DView methods getAllRepresentations(), getReferencedRepresentations() and getHiddenRepresentations() have been removed: getReferencedRepresentations() and getHiddenRepresentations() were never actually used, making getAllRepresentations() strictly equivalent to getOwnedRepresentations(). Code that used getAllRepresentations() can simply use getOwnedRepresentations() instead.
Removed The API org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.DSourceFileLink has been removed.
Removed The API org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.DNavigable has been removed.
Removed The API org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.DNavigationLink has been removed.
Removed The API org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.DValidable has been removed.
Removed The enum org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.NavigationTargetType has been removed.
Removed The API org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.DLabelled has been removed.
Removed The API org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.DContainer has been removed.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.ui`

Added The method org.eclipse.sirius.ui.business.api.dialect.DialectUIServices.completeToolTipText(String, EObject, EStructuralFeature) has been added to customize the tooltip displayed in the VSM editor by using the feature of the current object. The old method org.eclipse.sirius.ui.business.api.dialect.DialectUIServices.completeToolTipText(String, EObject) has been deprecated.
Added The class org.eclipse.sirius.ui.tools.api.properties.SiriusExtensiblePropertySource has been added. It allows developers to make their properties views CellEditor customizable by using the new extension point org.eclipse.sirius.ui.siriuspropertiescelleditor
Added The interface org.eclipse.sirius.ext.emf.ui.ICellEditorProvider has been added to allow clients to provide their own CellEditor - in the Sirius semantic properties views – through the new extension point org.eclipse.sirius.ui.siriuspropertiescelleditor.
Added The method org.eclipse.sirius.ui.business.api.session.IEditingSession.detachEditor(DialectEditor, boolean) has been added to choose whether we should revert the user changes when detaching the editor.
Added A org.eclipse.sirius.ui.tools.api.views.LockDecorationUpdater is now available to add it on a org.eclipse.ui.navigator.CommonNavigator to be refreshed when notifications are send to org.eclipse.sirius.ecore.extender.business.api.permission.IAuthorityListener.
Added A new job org.eclipse.sirius.ui.tools.api.views.RefreshLabelImageJob has been added to refresh the icon of specified elements on a org.eclipse.ui.navigator.CommonNavigator.
Moved Extensions in plugin.xml that provide UI functionalities have been moved to org.eclipse.sirius.ui.ext.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.ecore.extender`

Modified The method org.eclipse.sirius.ecore.extender.business.api.accessor.ModelAccessor.eRemoveInverseCrossReferences() has been changed to return the list of changed objects by the inverse cross references removal.
Modified The method org.eclipse.sirius.ecore.extender.business.api.accessor.IMetamodelExtender.eRemoveInverseCrossReferences() has been changed to return the list of changed objects by the inverse cross references removal.
Modified The method org.eclipse.sirius.ecore.extender.business.api.accessor.CompositeMetamodelExtender.eRemoveInverseCrossReferences() has been changed to return the list of changed objects by the inverse cross references removal.
Removed The exception org.eclipse.sirius.ecore.extender.IllegalURIException has been removed. It was not actually thrown anywhere in the code.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.editor`

Added The static method org.eclipse.sirius.editor.tools.api.assist.TypeContentProposalProvider.bindPluginsCompletionProcessors(AbstractPropertySection, Text) has been added. This method is very similar to org.eclipse.sirius.editor.tools.api.assist.TypeContentProposalProvider.bindCompletionProcessor(AbstractPropertySection, Text), the difference is that it binds the completion processors available in plugins to the text.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.diagram`

Added The org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.tools.api.command.ChangeLayerActivationCommand has been added. This command was previously internal.
Added The new constant org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.business.api.helper.SiriusDiagramUtil.DIAGRAM_ENVIRONMENT_RESOURCE_URI declares the environment:/diagram resource URI.
Added The method org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.business.api.diagramtype.IDiagramDescriptionProvider.completeToolTipText(String, EObject, EStructuralFeature) has been added to customize the tooltip displayed in the VSM editor by using the feature of the current object. The old method org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.business.api.diagramtype.IDiagramDescriptionProvider.completeToolTipText(String, EObject) has been deprecated.
Added New methods have been added to org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.business.api.query.ContainerMappingQuery to test the children presentation mode of the current ContainerMapping: isVerticalStackContainer(), isHorizontalStackContainer(), isRegionContainer() and isRegion().
org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.business.api.query.AbstractDNodeQuery now requires a org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.util.RefreshIdsHolder to check for equality in the context of a refresh operation.
Removed The DNodeList.lineWidth attribute has been removed from the metamodel, the corresponding generated elements do not exist anymore: org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.DNodeList.getLineWidth(), org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.DNodeList.setLineWidth(), org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.DiagramPackage.DNODE_LIST__LINE_WIDTH, org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.DiagramPackage.getDNodeList_LineWidth(), org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.DiagramPackage.Literals.DNODE_LIST__LINE_WIDTH().
Removed org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ComputedStyleDescriptionRegistry.cache reference has been removed from the metamodel as it is no more useful, to limit memory consumed by computed StyleDescription we directly look for them in the ComputedStyleDescriptionRegistry.computedStyleDescriptions list.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui`

Added Modified The org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.figure.ImageFigureWithAlpha interface has been added to identify Figures having the capability to return an alpha value from a coordinate. org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.figure.AbstractCachedSVGFigure and org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.figure.AbstractTransparentImage now implement this new interface.
Added The method org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.figure.locator.DBorderItemLocator.resetBorderItemMovedState() has been added to allow to reset the state of borderItemHasMoved. This method must be used carefully only in case where setConstraint(Rectangle) is called to compute temporary a getValidLocation(Rectangle, IFigure, Collection, List), one time with a new value and just after with the old value.
Added The constant org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.image.DiagramImagesPath.HIDDEN_LABEL_DECORATOR has been added to represent the path of hidden label decorator used in the outline.
Added The class org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.business.api.provider.DDiagramElementContainerLabelItemProvider has been added to represent container and list labels as virtual nodes in the Show/Hide wizards.
Modified The org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.figure.locator.DBorderItemLocator did not take into account the rectangle size passed to getValidLocation. To resolve that limitation, several protected methods that took a Point as location now take a Rectangle:
- locateOnBorder(Point, int, int, IFigure, Collection<IFigure>, List<IFigure>) now takes a Rectangle instead a Point: locateOnBorder(Rectangle, int, int, IFigure, Collection<IFigure>, List<IFigure>);
- locateOnSouthBorder, locateOnNorthBorder, locateOnWestBorder and locateOnEastBorder signatures is now (Rectangle, int, IFigure, Collection<IFigure>, List<IFigure>);
- locateOnParent signature is now locateOnParent(Rectangle, int, IFigure);
- conflicts signature is now conflicts(Rectangle, IFigure, Collection<IFigure>, List<IFigure>).
Moved The constant DiagramImagesPath.LINK_TO_VIEWPOINT_IMG has been moved to org.eclipse.sirius.ui.tools.api.image.ImagesPath.LINK_TO_VIEWPOINT_IMG. This is more coherent because the corresponding image is in core org.eclipse.sirius.common.ui plugin.
Moved org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.layout.PinHelper moved from org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui plugin to org.eclipse.sirius.diagram plugin, i.e. org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.tools.api.layout.PinHelper with PinHelper.IsPinned(IDiagramElementEditPart) removed in favor of PinHelper.IsPinned(DDiagramElement).
Moved External java actions declared as org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.internal.actions.pinning.pinElementsActionId and org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.internal.actions.pinning.unpinElementsActionId are now declared as org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.tools.internal.actions.pinning.pinElementsActionId and org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.tools.internal.actions.pinning.unpinElementsActionId in org.eclipse.sirius.diagram plugin.
Moved Extensions in plugin.xml that provides UI functionalities have been moved to org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.ext.
Deprecated org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.util.GMFNotationHelper.findGMFDiagram() became deprecated in favor of DiagramCreationUtil.findAssociatedGMFDiagram()/getAssociatedGMFDiagram()
Removed The org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.edit.api.part.IDiagramEdgeEditPart.getEAdapterStrokeColor method has been removed as the corresponding adapter was uneffective and is no more used and installed on the edge edit parts.
Removed org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.tools.api.figure.InvisibleResizableCompartmentFigure class has been removed, use a org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.figures.ShapeCompartmentFigure with a org.eclipse.draw2d.MarginBorder or a null border instead.
Removed The method org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.edit.api.part.IDiagramElementEditPart.getEAdapterSemanticElements() has been removed (and all its implementations). For manual refresh, this adapter has been replaced with the RefreshEditorsPrecommitListener.
Removed The method org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.part.SiriusDiagramEditorUtil.findView() has been deleted in flavor of SiriusGMFHelper.getGmfView(). If you was using SiriusDiagramEditorUtil.findView() with a semantic element in parameter, retrieve before the corresponding DDiagram or DDiagramElement and use SiriusGMFHelper.getGmfView(DSemanticDecorator) from this last to get the corresponding GMF View. To get a DDiagram or DDiagramElement from a semantic element, you can use EObjectQuery.getInverseReferences(EReference) API, see org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.business.api.view.ValidateAction.getDSemanticDecorator() for an example.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.table`

Removed The methods org.eclipse.sirius.table.business.api.helper.TableHelper.getColumn() have been removed because they are not useful, TableHelper.getColumn(DLine, int) can be replaced by DTable.getColumns().get(int) and TableHelper.getColumn(DTable, String) should not be used as we can have several columns with a same featureName.
Removed The method org.eclipse.sirius.table.business.api.helper.TableHelper.getEClassifier(DLine, int) has been removed because it is not useful, use TableHelper.getEClassifier(line, column) instead.
Removed The method org.eclipse.sirius.table.business.api.helper.TableHelper.getTableElement(DTableElementStyle) has been removed because it is not useful, DTableElementStyle.eContainer() can be used instead.
Removed The methods org.eclipse.sirius.table.business.api.helper.TableHelper.getCell(DCellStyle) has been removed because they are not useful, use DCellStyle.eContainer instead.
Removed The methods org.eclipse.sirius.table.business.api.helper.TableHelper.getCell(RGBValues) has been removed, RGBValues is not an EObject anymore. The method was looking in the eContainer hierarchy of a an instance of RGBValues to find the parent DCell.
Removed The method org.eclipse.sirius.table.business.api.helper.TableHelper.getCreateCellTool(DCell) has been removed because it is not useful, use TableHelper.getCreateCellTool(line, column) instead.
Removed The method org.eclipse.sirius.table.business.api.helper.TableHelper.getCellDefaultForegroundColor() has been removed because it is not useful, use EnvironmentSystemColorFactory.getDefault().getSystemColorDescription("gray") instead.
Removed The interface DTableElementUpdater has been removed from metamodel. It is now unnecessary. This interface was here to provide operations to activate and deactivate the listeners, that have been replaced by the RefreshImpactedElementsCommand launched from RefreshEditorsPrecommitListener.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.table.ui`

Moved Extensions in plugin.xml that provide UI functionalities have been moved to org.eclipse.sirius.table.ui.ext.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.tree`

Added The method org.eclipse.sirius.tree.business.api.interaction.DTreeItemUserInteraction.refreshContent(boolean fullRefresh) has been added to allow full refresh from a specified DTreeItem.
Added The EMF Command org.eclipse.sirius.tree.business.api.command.DTreeItemLocalRefreshCommand has been added to call DTreeItemUserInteraction.refreshContent(boolean fullRefresh) in an EMF Command.
Added The method org.eclipse.sirius.tree.business.api.interaction.DTreeItemUserInteraction.expand(IProgressMonitor) has been added similar to DTreeItemUserInteraction.expand() but taking a IProgressMonitor in parameter to have progression on DTreeItem expanding.
Added The method org.eclipse.sirius.tree.business.api.interaction.DTreeItemUserInteraction.collapse(IProgressMonitor) has been added similar to DTreeItemUserInteraction.collapse() but taking a IProgressMonitor in parameter to have progression on DTreeItem collapsing.
Added The method org.eclipse.sirius.tree.business.api.interaction.DTreeItemUserInteraction.expandAll(IProgressMonitor) has been added similar to DTreeItemUserInteraction.expandAll() but taking a IProgressMonitor in parameter to have progression on DTreeItem expanding.
Added The method org.eclipse.sirius.tree.business.api.interaction.DTreeItemUserInteraction.refreshContent(boolean, IProgressMonitor) has been added similar to DTreeItemUserInteraction.refreshContent(boolean) but taking a IProgressMonitor in parameter to have progression on DTreeItem expanding.
Added The method DTreeUserInteraction.expand(IProgressMonitor) has been added similar to org.eclipse.sirius.tree.business.api.interaction.DTreeUserInteraction.expand() but taking a IProgressMonitor in parameter to have progression on DTreeItem expanding.
Added The method DTreeUserInteraction.expandAll(IProgressMonitor) has been added similar to org.eclipse.sirius.tree.business.api.interaction.DTreeUserInteraction.expandAll() but taking a IProgressMonitor in parameter to have progression on DTreeItem expanding.
Modified The constructor org.eclipse.sirius.tree.business.api.command.DTreeItemExpansionChangeCommand.DTreeItemExpansionChangeCommand(GlobalContext, TransactionalEditingDomain, DTreeItem, IProgressMonitor, boolean) has an additional IProgressMonitor parameter.
Removed The interface DTreeElementUpdater has been removed from metamodel. It is now unnecessary. This interface was here to provide operations to activate and deactivate the listeners, that have been replaced by the RefreshImpactedElementsCommand launched from RefreshEditorsPrecommitListener.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.tree.ui`

Modified The method org.eclipse.sirius.tree.ui.properties.section.common.AbstractDTreePropertySection.update(final TransactionalEditingDomain domain, final Notification notification) has been replaced by org.eclipse.sirius.tree.ui.properties.section.common.AbstractDTreePropertySection.update(ResourceSetChangeEvent) to allow to update only once per ResourceSetChangeEvent and let subclasses make additional filtering on the notifications.
Modified The return type of the method org.eclipse.sirius.tree.ui.properties.section.common.AbstractDTreePropertySection.getEventListener() has been changed from DemultiplexingListener to ResourceSetListener.
Modified The type of org.eclipse.sirius.tree.ui.properties.section.common.AbstractDTreePropertySection.eventListener has been changed from DemultiplexingListener to ResourceSetListener.
Moved Extensions in plugin.xml that provide UI functionalities have been moved to org.eclipse.sirius.tree.ui.ext.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.synchronizer`

Added The method org.eclipse.sirius.synchronizer.ModelToModelSynchronizer.update(CreatedOutput, boolean, IProgressMonitor) has been added similar to org.eclipse.sirius.synchronizer.ModelToModelSynchronizer.update(CreatedOutput, boolean) but taking a IProgressMonitor in parameter to have progression on synchronization.
Modified The method org.eclipse.sirius.synchronizer.SemanticPartitionInvalidator.hasFastResult(EObject, SemanticPartition, CreatedOutput) now takes a CreatedOutput as additional parameter element to allow to have the parent output element.
Modified The method org.eclipse.sirius.synchronizer.SemanticPartition.evaluate(EObject, CreatedOutput) now takes a CreatedOutput as additional parameter. This CreatedOutput represents the output model element which will become the parent of the elements created from the evaluation result.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.ext.swt`

Moved The org.eclipse.sirius.ext.swt.ImageFileFormat class has been moved in org.eclipse.sirius.common.tools.api.resource (in the org.eclipse.sirius.common plugin).

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.ext.e3.ui`

Added The classes org.eclipse.sirius.ext.e3.ui.dialogs.FilteredTree and org.eclipse.sirius.ext.e3.ui.dialogs.PatternFilter have been added in order to have the latest functionalites of org.eclipse.ui.dialogs.FilteredTree with Eclipse Juno.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.ext.emf.tx`

Added The class org.eclipse.sirius.ext.emf.tx.DelegatingValidateEditSupport has been added to be able to have a ValidateEditSupport which delegate to an existing ValidateEditSupport.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.eef.adapters`

This plug-in now requires the version 1.5.0 of org.eclipse.emf.eef.runtime bundle.

Added The new class org.eclipse.sirius.eef.components.SiriusAwarePropertiesEditingComponent can be used as root class of the generated EEF components to greatly improve performances when using both EEF properties views with Sirius representations. Refer to Using the Extended Editing Framework with Sirius documentation for details.
ModifiedThe following packages are set to x-internal:=true
- org.eclipse.sirius.eef.actions
- org.eclipse.sirius.eef.adapters

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.tests.junit.support`

Added The method org.eclipse.sirius.tests.support.api.EclipseTestsSupportHelper.setReadOnlyStatus(boolean, IResource...) has been added to change the read only status of the given resources.
Added The warnings member variable has been added to org.eclipse.sirius.tests.support.api.SiriusTestCase to allow the recording of warning logs. Methods doesAWarningOccurs(), clearWarnings(), setWarningCatchActive(boolean), isWarningCatchActive() and getWarningLoggersMessage() have also been added to manage the warnings member variable in the same way as the existing errors member variable.
Added The method org.eclipse.sirius.tests.support.api.SiriusTestCase.loadModeler(URI, EditingDomain) has been added to load a VSM resource and make the Viewpoints it defines accessible via the SiriusTestsCase.viewpoints field.
Added The class org.eclipse.sirius.tests.support.api.ImageComposer has been added to the test API to do assertions on image decorators.
Added The enum SiriusTestCase.ResourceURIType and the method SiriusTestCase.toURI(final String, ResourceURIType) have been added to allow choosing the type of URI created ( platform: or plugin:).
Modified The SiriusTestCase.genericSetUp(List<URI>, List<URI>, boolean, URI) method has been set to protected so that it can be called from concrete test cases. This method allows initializing session.
Moved The class TreeItemLabelFontFormatQuery was moved into org.eclipse.sirius.tests.support.api (from org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support.api.widget), as it can be used in non-SWTBot tests..
Deprecated The method org.eclipse.sirius.tests.support.api.SiriusDiagramTestCase.setReadOnly(IFile) has been deprecated, org.eclipse.sirius.tests.support.api.EclipseTestsSupportHelper.setReadOnlyStatus(boolean, IResource...) can be used instead.

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support`

Added The warnings member variable has been added to org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support.api.AbstractSiriusSwtBotGefTestCase to allow the recording of warning logs. Methods doesAWarningOccurs(), setWarningCatchActive(boolean), isWarningCatchActive() and getWarningLoggersMessage() have also been added to manage the warnings member variable in the same way as the existing errors member variable.
Added The method org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support.api.editor.SWTBotSiriusDiagramEditor.getDRepresentation() has been added to return the org.eclipse.sirius.viewpoint.DRepresentation instance available in the diagram editor.
Modified The method org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support.api.AbstractSiriusSwtBotGefTestCase.getSectionButton() now only takes the button’s tooltip instead of a numerical position index and the tooltip.
Modified The methods org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support.api.editor.SWTBotSiriusHelper.selectPropertyTabItem(String) now returns a boolean that is true when the property tab item is found, false otherwise.
Moved The class TreeItemLabelFontFormatQuery was moved into org.eclipse.sirius.tests.support.api (from org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support.api.widget), as it can be used in non-SWTBot tests..
Deprecated The methods org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support.api.business.UIPerspective.deleteProject(UIProject) and org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support.api.business.UIPerspective.deleteProject(String) have been deprecated, org.eclipse.sirius.tests.support.api.EclipseTestsSupportHelper.setReadOnlyStatus(boolean, IResource...) can be used instead.

New plug-ins

The following UI plug-ins has been added:

Added org.eclipse.sirius.ui.ext
Added org.eclipse.sirius.common.ui.ext
Added org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui.ext
Added org.eclipse.sirius.table.ui.ext
Added org.eclipse.sirius.tree.ui.ext

These plug-ins own the extension definitions related to perspective, views, newWizard, menus, contextual menus, editors and preference pages that were previously in org.eclipse.sirius.xxx.ui plug-ins.
Now, downstream projects can define features that do not contain org.eclipse.sirius.xxx.ui.ext, allowing them not have all that functionalities they may not want.

Release Notes for Sirius

Changes in Sirius 4.1.7

Developer-Visible Changes

Migrations

User-Visible Changes

Changes in Sirius 4.1.6

User-Visible Changes

Specifier-Visible Changes

Developer-Visible Changes

Migrations

Changes in Sirius 4.1.5

User-Visible Changes

Developer-Visible Changes

Migrations

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui

Changes in Sirius 4.1.4

User-Visible Changes

Developer-Visible Changes

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.ui

Changes in Sirius 4.1.3

Developer-Visible Changes

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.tests.junit.support

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support

Changes in Sirius 4.1.2

User-Visible Changes

Developer-Visible Changes

Changes in Sirius 4.1.1

User-Visible Changes

Developer-Visible Changes

Changes in Sirius 4.1.0

User-Visible Changes

Specifier-Visible Changes

Developer-Visible Changes

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.ui

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.diagram

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.ext.gmf.runtime

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.tests.junit.support

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.properties

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.ui.properties

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.ecore.extender

Changes in Sirius 4.0.0

User-Visible Changes

Specifier-Visible Changes

Developer-Visible Changes

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.common

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.diagram

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.ui

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.ext.emf.ui

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.ext.gmf.runtime

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.ui

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.tests.junit.support

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.common.xtext

Changes in Sirius 3.1.0

User-Visible Changes

Specifier-Visible Changes

Developer-Visible Changes

Partial support for internationalization

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.common

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.ui

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.diagram.ui

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.synchronizer

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.tests.junit.support

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.ext.gef

Changes in org.eclipse.sirius.ext.jface

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Changes in Sirius 3.0.0

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Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.tests.junit.support`

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support`

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius`

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Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.tests.swtbot.support`

Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.properties`

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Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius.ecore.extender`

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Changes in `org.eclipse.sirius`

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