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Tue, 05 July 2011 03:21

Eclipse User

hello

i'm new with OCL in eclipse, so that coul be a noob question:

i tried to validate an uml model at runtime with java
i read the OCL Interpreter Tutorial and tried to use this for my aim

but i could not run the example, because i got a compile error in this line

OCL<?, EClassifier, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, Constraint, EClass, EObject> ocl;

"the type OCL is not generic"

if i had understand the tutorial, i have to adapt the following line

ocl = OCL.newInstance(EcoreEnvironmentFactory.INSTANCE);

into something like this:
ocl = OCL.newInstance(UMLEnvironment.);
but there is no choice of INSTANCE like above

ever help is welcome

regards
stoehm

Re: using OCL from java [message #692771 is a reply to message #692754]

Tue, 05 July 2011 03:54

Eclipse User

Stoehm,

are you sure you imported OCL from the correct package? Please note that there is more than one class named "OCL," each in a different package.

Best,
-- Axel

Re: using OCL from java [message #692795 is a reply to message #692771]

Tue, 05 July 2011 04:57

Eclipse User

hi alex
thanks for your reply
thats it, i just took the false imports Embarrassed

but for me its still a problem, what is the analog call to
ocl = OCL.newInstance(EcoreEnvironmentFactory.INSTANCE);
i want to have an UMLEnvironment but UMLEnvironmentFactory has no static fiel INSTANCE, i tried to call this:
ocl = OCL.newInstance(new UMLEnvironmentFactory().createEnvironment());
which causes again an compileerror
so maybe you can tell me the rigth call

best regards
stoehm

Re: using OCL from java [message #692820 is a reply to message #692795]

Tue, 05 July 2011 05:56

Eclipse User

hi
ok i checked out the other problem with the resource, but for me there is still the problem, that i don't know what is the right call in case of UML since

ocl = OCL.newInstance(new UMLEnvironmentFactory().createEnvironment());

is not working

any hint is welcome

best regards

[Updated on: Tue, 05 July 2011 08:45] by Moderator

Re: using OCL from java [message #693014 is a reply to message #692795]

Tue, 05 July 2011 12:04

Eclipse User

HI

If you use F4, Open Type hierrachy you will discover four UML variants
of OCL.newInstance. The closest has a UMLEnvironmentFactory argument so
you could do OCL.newInstance(new UMLEnvironmentFactory()).

I'm afraid the UML documentation is thin.
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=351214 raised.

We are not entirely clear whether the asymmetry between the UML and
Ecore binding is really necessary. It's a pain for us too.

Regards

Ed Willink

On 05/07/2011 09:57, stoehm wrote:
> hi alex
> thanks for your reply
> thats it, i just took the false imports :blush: but for me its still
> a problem, what is the analog call to
> ocl = OCL.newInstance(EcoreEnvironmentFactory.INSTANCE);
> i want to have an UMLEnvironment but UMLEnvironmentFactory has no
> static fiel INSTANCE, i tried to call this:
> ocl = OCL.newInstance(new
> UMLEnvironmentFactory().createEnvironment());
> which causes again an compileerror
> so maybe you can tell me the rigth call
>
> best regards
> stoehm
>

Re: using OCL from java [message #693015 is a reply to message #692820]

Tue, 05 July 2011 12:09

Eclipse User

Hi

The helper requires a Class argument, which you may obtain by naigating
your UML meta-model using UML's helper operations such as getOwnedType(c1);

Regards

Ed Willink

On 05/07/2011 10:56, stoehm wrote:
> hi
> trying to run the example, i have another question now
> is there an easy way to set the context of an OCLHelper object
> for example i have an example.uml which is located in any location,
> and this example.uml contains a package p1, with a class c1, now i
> want to set the context of an OCLHelper something like this
> helper.setContext(pathOfTheExampleUML.p1.c1)
>
> best regards

Re: using OCL from java [message #693352 is a reply to message #693015]

Wed, 06 July 2011 05:53

Eclipse User

hello ed
thanks for your reply it helped me a lot
for now i have to read the APIs, i hope i get well along with it

best regards
stoehm

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