Append dynamic views via dsl files after adding relations via Java code

[blancqua]

Hello,

We've been following the (now removed) example to model the software landscape of the organization. This means we have:

• one workspace DSL for the landscape, containing only personas and systems
• one workspace DSL for each system, extending from the landscape, including relationships
• relationships automatically added using Java code to the former by scanning the latter

Now I want to add a dynamic view on landscape level, using a DSL describing the view. The problem is as follows:

• I cannot just !include this dsl in the landscape dsl, since the relationships are not defined there, and that returns a (validation) error.
• Hence, I'd need to use the "augmented" workspace including the discovered relationships, but I do not find any elegant way to read a "partial DSL" containing the dynamic views for landscape level and inject it AFTER the relationships have been added dynamically.

So basically, it's starting from a DSL, adding some relationships dynamically via java, and then adding some more DSL to the workspace.

Let me know if you need more clarification but any help would be welcome.

[blancqua]

Good news, I managed to find a solution as follows:

• root.dsl, containing all systems, persons and styling, but no relations or lower-level (i.e. container) details
• for each system a DSL which extends from above
• 1 DSL for the landscape which extends from root.dsl, with a !plugin (instead of pure java code) augmenting the model with discovered relations and an !include later in the file to inject dynamic views that assume the relations are defined:

workspace extends ../root.dsl {

  !adrs adr
  !docs doc

  name "_Landscape_"

  !plugin <link to plugin which discovers and adds relations>

  views {
    !include dynamic.dsl
  }

  configuration {
    scope landscape
  }

}

Hope this helps if someone encounters an alike challenge.