Does GLSP Support Scripting for Automation and Bulk Operations?

[mshahzadiftikhar]

I am exploring the capabilities of GLSP and would like to know if it supports scriptability for automating tasks such as bulk element creation, renaming, and interconnection. For example:

1. Connecting multiple elements using a single command or script rather than manual linking.
2. Generating and modifying multiple blocks dynamically through scripting or automation.

If GLSP supports this, what are the recommended approaches? Thank you very much.

[martin-fleck-at]

@mshahzadiftikhar Thank you for your interest in GLSP! Could you elaborate on that a little bit more on what you mean by scripting?

In general, you can group operations together by means of a CompoundOperation which will then end up as a single operation on the command stack so undo/redo will work on the complete list of operations that you used. This operation, such as any other, can be sent with the ActionDispatcher. Things become a little bit more complicated if you have dependencies between the operations. In that case you can either send one operation after another or use the dispatchAfterNextUpdate method of the action dispatcher. This latter will wait for the update cycle to complete so that you will work on the updated model.

I hope this clears some points up for you.

[mshahzadiftikhar]

@martin-fleck-at thank you for your response. By scripting, I mean creating/editing bulk elements of the diagram via some script. That script can be shell script or any language script. Like, if I want to create 50 nodes of a certain elements, can I run some kind of script to achieve that?