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Querying properties that are EFeatureMapEntry Objects [message #692715] Tue, 05 July 2011 05:25 Go to next message
Mark Sluser is currently offline Mark SluserFriend
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Registered: June 2011
Location: Calgary
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I have an ecore metamodel I created from an XML Schema. I have generated an editor and I created a model.

When I launch the XText OCL Console, I can issue queries against model properties that are of type EString, however when I issue a query against an property that is of type EFeatureMapEntry, or a property that is grouped with a property that is a EFeatureMapEntry (as is quite common in XML Schemas) I get the following:


Evaluating:
self.paramValue
Results:
Parsing failure
null
Unresolved property 'paramValue' for 'OclInvalid'


What am I doing wrong?

I am using the Indigo-Modeling release of Eclipse.

Thank you

-Mark
Calgary, AB
Re: Querying properties that are EFeatureMapEntry Objects [message #692746 is a reply to message #692715] Tue, 05 July 2011 06:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ed Willink is currently offline Ed WillinkFriend
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Hi Mark

The current Xtext-based OCL support is for EMOF (Ecore) with some UML
functionality.

EFeatureMapEntry have no EMOF counterpart, they are part of Ecore's
support for UML-like qualified associations.
You should thereforee be using some form of "property[another-property]"
syntax, which might get you past the
parser, but it certainly won't evaluate.

If you'd like to file a Bugzilla with a simple model, it will motivate
me to tackle qualified associations. We're planning
a further release before Juno; This irritates me sufficiently to try to
tackle it before Juno.

I'm afraid that doesn't help you today.

Regards

Ed Willink


On 05/07/2011 06:25, Mark Sluser wrote:
> I have an ecore metamodel I created from an XML Schema. I have
> generated an editor and I created a model.
>
> When I launch the XText OCL Console, I can issue queries against model
> properties that are of type EString, however when I issue a query
> against an property that is of type EFeatureMapEntry, or a property
> that is grouped with a property that is a EFeatureMapEntry (as is
> quite common in XML Schemas) I get the following:
>
>
> Evaluating:
> self.paramValue
> Results:
> Parsing failure
> null
> Unresolved property 'paramValue' for 'OclInvalid'
>
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> I am using the Indigo-Modeling release of Eclipse.
>
> Thank you
>
> -Mark
> Calgary, AB
>
Re: Querying properties that are EFeatureMapEntry Objects [message #693236 is a reply to message #692746] Wed, 06 July 2011 05:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Mark Sluser is currently offline Mark SluserFriend
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Registered: June 2011
Location: Calgary
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First, thanks for replying Ed. It is great to see you responding so quickly in the user forum.

I believe I found a work-around to my problem, which is not to use feature maps.
I was given a XDR (the old Microsoft xml schema) file to begin with and it describes the following elements

<ElementType name="BlockDef" content="eltOnly" model="closed" order="many">
<element type="BlockName" maxOccurs="1"/>
<element type="EntityName" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
<element type="BlockId" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
<element type="BlockGUID" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
<element type="BlockDesc" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="*"/>
<element type="TemplateName" maxOccurs="1"/>
<element type="ClassName" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
<element type="BaseTemplateName" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
<element type="Attribute" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
<element type="CreateType" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
<element type="BlockDoc" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
<element type="HandlerName" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
<element type="Coord" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
<element type="LifeCycleState" maxOccurs="1"/>
<element type="CeeName" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
<element type="AssignedTo" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
<element type="Container" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
<element type="HwDetail" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
<element type="SnlDataInfo" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="*"/>
<element type="Reference" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="*"/>
</ElementType>

<ElementType name="Block" content="eltOnly" model="closed" order="many">
<element type="BlockDef" maxOccurs="1"/>
<element type="Parameters" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
<element type="ProjParameters" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
<element type="SymbolAttrs" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
<element type="Connections" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
<element type="ErdbVersion" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
<element type="EmbBlocks" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
</ElementType>

<ElementType name="MultiBlock" content="eltOnly" model="closed" order="many">
<element type="ErdbVersion" maxOccurs="1"/>
<element type="Model" maxOccurs="1"/>
<element type="Block" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="*"/>
</ElementType>

which I have translated to XSD Schema as:

<xs:element name="BlockDef">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" ecore:featureMap="">
<xs:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" ref="BlockName"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" ref="EntityName"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" ref="BlockId"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" ref="BlockGUID"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" ref="BlockDesc"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" ref="TemplateName"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" ref="ClassName"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" ref="BaseTemplateName"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" ref="Attribute"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" ref="CreateType"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" ref="BlockDoc"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" ref="HandlerName"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" ref="Coord"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" ref="LifeCycleState"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" ref="CeeName"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" ref="AssignedTo"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" ref="Container"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" ref="HwDetail"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" ref="SnlDataInfo"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" ref="Reference"/>
</xs:choice>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>

<xs:element name="Block">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:all>
<xs:element maxOccurs="1" minOccurs="1" ref="BlockDef"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" ref="Parameters"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" ref="ProjParameters"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" ref="SymbolAttrs"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" ref="Connections"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" ref="ErdbVersion"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" ref="EmbBlocks"/>
</xs:all>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>

<xs:element name="MultiBlock">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" ecore:featureMap="">
<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" ref="ErdbVersion"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" ref="Model"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" ref="Block"/>
</xs:choice>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>



I had to use xsd:choice maxOccurs="unbounded" to properly describe the schema the data may be made available.

Originally, this schema produced an attribute called group that was of type EFeatureMapEntry.
After adding ecore:featureMap="" to the schema, this attribute was gone and I was very happy. I thought my problem was solved.

However, upon examining the generated BlockDefImpl class, I all attributes have been implemented as EList datatypes. I was expecting an EString for attributes that had their upper bound set to "1".

Is it possible to not get around FeatureMaps for my situation?

Thank you,

-Mark
Re: Querying properties that are EFeatureMapEntry Objects [message #693240 is a reply to message #693236] Wed, 06 July 2011 05:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Mark Sluser is currently offline Mark SluserFriend
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Ok, I figured it out. I should have guessed.

It looks like the metamodel generated from the XSD file did not carry over the maxOccurs and minOccurs on xsd:choice elements when ecore:featureMap="". This sounds like a bug to me.
What do you think?

-Mark
Re: Querying properties that are EFeatureMapEntry Objects [message #693249 is a reply to message #693240] Wed, 06 July 2011 06:15 Go to previous message
Ed Willink is currently offline Ed WillinkFriend
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HI Mark

The XSD to Ecore import is very useful, but precisely representing every
possible XSD eccentricity is challenging, and it looks as if you needed
to tweak a couple of attributes from your original XDR so I would guess
that the bug is in your tweaking, but I'm far from an XSD expert, so you
might try posting on the EMF newsgroup where you will get a more
informed response from Ed Merks.

Regards

Ed Willink


On 06/07/2011 06:28, Mark Sluser wrote:
> Ok, I figured it out. I should have guessed.
>
> It looks like the metamodel generated from the XSD file did not carry
> over the maxOccurs and minOccurs on xsd:choice elements when
> ecore:featureMap="". This sounds like a bug to me.
> What do you think?
>
> -Mark
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