UAA - Pattern Preview Window
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.
To test a file:
Click the browse button ("…") in the Test file section
A standard Windows Open dialog box will be displayed
Locate and select the MetaModel or LanguagePattern file you want to test (your file’s code will be displayed in the right-hand Report section as shown above)
Click the Test button to launch the objects and links recognition process
On completion of the test process, the left-hand Report section will be populated with information.
Select an item in this section to highlight the corresponding code that has been detected
- For links, code matching the regular expression defined in the linkType tag is displayed. The highlighted token is a “suspension”, that is a potential callee. In a real analysis using a Universal Analyzer job, a link is created when the suspension matches an existing object of the desired type: source code the callee must have been analyzed in the same Analysis Unit, and must be of an object Type defined with CalleeLinkable for this type of link.
- For objects, displayed code is a combination of the
and or tags.
Use the Close button to return to the Main Window.
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