Sirius Developer Manual

This document gives an overview of the internals of the Sirius platform, and describes the main APIs and extension points.

• Architecture Overview provides a high-level view of how Sirius is structured.
• Architecture and Concepts describes the general architecture of the system, the main concepts and top-level entry points in the APIs.
• Meta-models gives a high-level description of the various meta-models used internally by Sirius, to represent both VSMs and representation files.
• The Sirius platform publishs a set of API, and the next sections describe some which require particular attention:
  • SiriusCrossReferenceAdapter
  • Representations lazy loading (experimental)
  • Diagram Copy-Paste format on new semantic targets
  • SVG Export semantic traceability
• The Sirius platform is extensible, and the next sections describe some common extension scenarios:
  • Integration with Product Life Cycle Management
  • Deploy a Modeler Description File
  • Provide custom save dialog
  • Provide custom arrange-all
  • Provide custom style
  • Provide tab-bar extensions
  • Provide custom representation files migration
  • Provide custom repair participant
  • Provide custom cell editor
  • Provide custom bundled image shape
  • Provide custom widget for the properties view and dialogs
  • Provide custom model operation
  • Provide custom aird editor pages
  • Provide a resource strategy
  • Trigger refresh on specific graphical changes
  • Provide a tool filter to hide tools from the diagram palette