XMI customization

[CFAndy]

Dear Vincent @aranega,
Hope you and your family are all well!
I stick with 0.9 and today, I bump it to 1.2.
I have a customized implementation of Resource, where I'll do the following things:

def _go_across(self, obj, serialize_default=False):
    self._cur_eobject = obj
    return super()._go_across(obj, serialize_default)

def _build_path_from(self, obj):
    if isinstance(obj, type):
        obj = obj.eClass
    if obj.eResource and obj.eResource != self and obj.eResource.uri:
        return self._build_path_from_my_cross(obj) # this fun need obj, which I store with self._cur_eobject
    return super()._build_path_from(obj)
# so, can we pass the 


def _decode_ereferences(self):
	  for eobject, erefs in self._later:
	      for ref in erefs[:]:
	          if ref[1] in self.ref_to_be_ignored:
	              erefs.remove(ref)
	  super()._decode_ereferences()


def _decode_attribute(self, owner, key, value, node=None):
    namespace, att_name = self.extract_namespace(key)
    if att_name in self.attr_to_be_ignored:
        return
    if node:
        return super()._decode_attribute(owner, key, value, node)
    else:
        return super()._decode_attribute(owner, key, value)

Would it be possible to provide some support for such customization, like:

1. add attr_to_be_ignored to drop deprecated attribute when decode attribute
2. add ref_to_be_ignored to drop ill-formed ref
3. pass the obj of _go_across to _build_path_from
   This is just a soft suggestion.
   Thanks!

[aranega]

Hi @CFAndy!

Glad to see that the update was fine and that there is no regression for your project :) (I hope at least...).

Regarding the points you are suggesting, they are quite interesting as they really touch to model/metamodel evolution and could be helpful for others. Regarging them, I know EMF as a special option that you can pass during deserialization to explicitally ask to record the unknown features. This would take all unknow feature and store them in a special map in the resource so they can be accessed at another moment (option RECORD_UNKNOWN_FEATURE). Do you think this could cover your two first points?

For your last point, about passing the object from one method to the other, I think it could be done without so much trouble. I need to check.