UAA - Using UA Assistant on Documentation - V2

UAA - Limitations

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Limitations

The Universal Assistant will fail the validation of your language package if more than 120 sets of parentheses are present in the xxxLanguagePattern file (i.e. 121 and above).

UAA - Main Window

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Main Window

The main window is displayed when the UA Assistant application is launched:

Importing a package

The first thing you need to do before you can validate a package, is to import it into the UA Assistant. To do so:

Click the browse button ("…") in the Package path section
A standard Windows Browse for Folder dialog box will be displayed
Locate the folder (directory) that contains your MetaModel, LanguagePattern and (optionally) InformationTracking files, then click OK
The path of your package folder will be displayed in the Package path section (as shown above)
Your package is now imported into the UA Assistant

Validating your package

To check that the package is consistent and conforms to a pre-defined CAST structure, click the Validate button. The following checks will be made on your package:

UAA - Pattern Preview Window

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Pattern Preview Window

The Pattern Preview Window is displayed when you click the Preview button in the Main Window:

This dialog box enables you to test your package - in other words, how objects and links are recognized along with their matching code. It uses the following information:

Regular expressions defined in the LanguagePattern file
Parentship description defined in the MetaModel file (using tags)
Set of links, either outgoing from an object (using tags)

The dialog box is a modeless window enabling you to modify your package files (outside the UA Assistant), then open the Main Window, re-validate your package and then resume testing - all without closing the Pattern Preview dialog box.

UAA - What is the UA Assistant?

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What is the UA Assistant?

The UA Assistant is a standalone tool that provides a means to validate your user defined packages for UA languages. The UA Assistant will enable you to check that your language packages are correct and conform to required standards before they are imported into the CAST Knowledge Base, thus avoiding errors during an analysis.

A package consists of a directory whose name is the same as the language name (represented by xxx below). This directory must contain the following XML files (named exactly as shown below) that describe the language to be processed by the Universal Analyzer:

UAA - Using UA Assistant on Documentation - V2

UAA - Limitations

Limitations

See Also

UAA - Main Window

Main Window

Importing a package

Validating your package

UAA - Pattern Preview Window

Pattern Preview Window

UAA - What is the UA Assistant?

What is the UA Assistant?