This exercise will introduce the usage of the Eclipse Plugin Development Environment for developing new layout algorithms to be used in Eclipse diagram editors. Replace each <login> by your own login name (e.g. msp), and each <Login> by your login name with capitalized first letter (e.g. Msp). For any questions contact msp.

1. Install and set up Eclipse (TODO: describe steps to install and set up Eclipse)
2. Import the following KIELER plugins: (TODO: describe steps to access and import the KIELER plugins and update the list)
   
   • de.cau.cs.kieler.core
   • de.cau.cs.kieler.core.kgraph
   • de.cau.cs.kieler.kiml
   • de.cau.cs.kieler.kiml.service
   • de.cau.cs.kieler.kiml.ui
   • de.cau.cs.kieler.klay.layered
3. Create a new plugin
   
   1. File → New → Other... → Plug-in Development → Plug-in Project
   2. Project name: de.cau.cs.rtprak.<login>.tutorial2
   3. Next → set version to 0.1.0.qualifier, provider to Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, and execution environment to J2SE-1.5 (do this for all plugins that you create!)
   4. The checkboxes in the Options group can be deactivated -> Finish
4. Commit the new plugin project (TODO: describe steps to commit plugin projects)
5. Open the file META-INF/MANIFEST.MF → Dependencies tab
   
   • Add the plugins de.cau.cs.kieler.core and de.cau.cs.kieler.kiml to the list of dependencies, then save the file.test-drawing.png
6. Create a layout provider class with the New → Class wizard
   
   • Package: de.cau.cs.rtprak.<login>.tutorial2
   • Name: <Login>LayoutProvider
   • Superclass: de.cau.cs.kieler.kiml.AbstractLayoutProvider

7. Implement the layout provider class

   1. Add the following constant to the class:

   2. /** default value for spacing between nodes. */privatestaticfinalfloat=15.0f;

          
              DEFAULT_SPACING  
      

   3. Write the following lines at the beginning of the doLayout method:

      .begin("<Login> Layouter",1);=.getData(.class);float=.getProperty(.SPACING);if(<0){=;}float=.getProperty(.BORDER_SPACING);if(<0){=;}

              progressMonitor 
              KShapeLayout parentLayout  layoutNodeKShapeLayout
               objectSpacing  parentLayoutLayoutOptions
               objectSpacing   
                  objectSpacing  DEFAULT_SPACING
              
               borderSpacing  parentLayoutLayoutOptions
               borderSpacing   
                  borderSpacing  DEFAULT_SPACING
              
      

   4. Write the following line at the end of the doLayout method:

      .done();

              progressMonitor
      

   5. Implement the rest of the layouter such that the nodes of the input graph are all put in a row.

      • See the KGraph and KLayoutData data structures: the input is a KNode and holds the nodes of the graph in its list of children
      • Iterate over the nodes in the getChildren() list of the layoutNode input
      • Retrieve the size of a node using the following code:

        =.getData(.class);float=.getWidth();float=.getHeight();

                KShapeLayout nodeLayout  nodeKShapeLayout
                 width  nodeLayout
                 height  nodeLayout
        

      • Set the position (x, y) of a node's upper left corner using the following code:

        .setXpos();.setYpos();

                nodeLayoutx
                nodeLayouty
        

      • objectSpacing shall be the spacing to be left between each pair of nodes.
      • borderSpacing shall be the spacing to be left to the borders of the drawing: the first node's coordinates shall be (borderSpacing, borderSpacing).
      • At the end of the method, set the width and height of parentLayout so that it is large enough to hold the whole drawing, including borders.
      • Edges may be ignored for now.
8. Open the file META-INF/MANIFEST.MF → Extensions tab
   
   1. Add an extension for de.cau.cs.kieler.kiml.layout.layoutProviders
   2. Right-click the extension → New → layoutProvider
   3. Set name to <Login> Test Layouter, class to de.cau.cs.rtprak.<login>.tutorial2.<Login>LayoutProvider
   4. Right-click the new layoutProvider → New → knownOption, set option to de.cau.cs.kieler.spacing
   5. Add another knownOption, set to de.cau.cs.kieler.borderSpacing
9. Run → Run Configurations... → right-click Eclipse Application → New
   
   1. Name: Layout
   2. For testing the layouter, a new workspace location will be created; you may configure its destination in Workspace Data → Location
   3. Add the program arguments -debug -consoleLog in the Arguments tab.
   4. Go to Plug-ins tab, select Launch with: plug-ins selected below only
   5. Deselect All, activate Workspace checkbox, Add Required Plug-ins, Apply, Run
10. Test the layouter in the new Eclipse instance:
    
    1. New → Project... → General → Project, name test
    2. Right-click test project → New → Other... → KEG Diagram (TODO: if graphs shall be created in another way, describe it here)
    3. Create a graph using the palette on the right.
    4. Window → Show View → Other... → KIELER → Layout
    5. While the graph diagram is open, set Layout Provider or Type in the Layout view to <Login> Test Layouter.
    6. Open the additional views Layout Graph and Layout Time.
    7. Trigger layout with the KIELER Layout button in the toolbar or Ctrl+R L (first Ctrl+R, then L).
    8. See the direct input and output of your algorithm in the Layout Graph view.
    9. See the execution time analysis in the Layout Time view.

11. Implement another class EdgeRouter.

    1. Add the following method:

       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       

       /** * Route the edges that are connected with the children of the given node. * @param parentNode the parent node of the input graph */ public void routeEdges(final KNode parentNode) { getMonitor().begin("Edge Routing", 1); getMonitor().done(); }

    2. Add the following code to the end of the doLayout method in your layout provider:

       =new();.routeEdges();

               EdgeRouter edgeRouter   EdgeRouter
               edgeRouterlayoutNode
       

    3. Implement the routeEdges method:

       • Each edge shall be drawn with three line segments: one vertical segment starting below the source node, one horizonzal segment, and another vertical segment ending below the target node.
       • The horizontal segments of two different edges shall not have the same y-coordinate; for consecutive edges, the distance between their horizontal segments shall equal objectSpacing.
       • See the attached image test-drawing.png for an example.
       • Find the edges using getOutgoingEdges() or getIncomingEdges() on a node.
       • Get the edge layout of an edge to set bend points using this code:

         =.getData(.class);

                 KEdgeLayout edgeLayout  edgeKEdgeLayout
         

       • Create a bend point using this code:

         =.eINSTANCE.createKPoint();

                 KPoint point  KLayoutDataFactory
         

       • Use the getBendPoints() list on the edgeLayout to add bend points (clear the list first to remove points from the previous layout).
       • Set the values of the points returned by getSourcePoint() and getTargetPoint() according to the positions where the edge leaves its source node and reches its target node.
12. Use your previous run configuration to test the edge router.