Add a flag to dump the Flat Modelica to a file during model translation or checking

[Oliver Lenord]

At the moment one needs to call instantiateModel to get the flat Modelica output. A flag to dump the flat Modelica during the model checking or model build for simulation is desirable as the instantiation can take some time for large models so is not preferable to be repeated.

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I used to generate flat modelica outputs and dae dumps directly form OMEdit by the following compiler flags assigned as "Additional Translation Flags" in the Options Dialog:

-m +d=evalOutputOnly --postOptModules+=dumpDAE

Currently there are no additional files created.

Maybe I'm missing something, but at least it used work.

[Adrian Pop]

--postOptModules+=dumpDAE does not generate any files, it outputs in the Messages Browser as a Scripting Notification.

[Oliver Lenord]

Right, sorry I forgot about that. The dumpDAE works fine.

How about the -m? - I expected a mof file to be generated?

[Adrian Pop]

-m only works on the result of instantiateModel(Model). So you need to right click Instantiate Model on a model and then copy the result. OpenModelica has never generated .mof files.

[Oliver Lenord]

Ok, thanks for clarification.
Then we can close this ticket.

[Adrian Pop]

From a mos script it should be easy to do:
writeFile("Model.mof", instantiateModel(Model));

If this functionality is of interest, we could also dump an .mof file on some flag when building/simulating/translating the model.