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Adding constraints to UML Profiles in Papyrus [message #997587]

Tue, 08 January 2013 08:38

Eclipse User

Hi,

Recently, I've developed my own UML Profile using Papyrus.
Now my doubt is how can I add/associate OCL constraints to it?
My goal is to validate if a model that applies my profile is correct or not.

I'm using the following version of Eclipse:
Eclipse Modeling Tools
Version: Juno Service Release 1
Build id: 20120920-0800

Thanks in advance,
André Ribeiro
IST Lisbon
Portugal

Re: Adding constraints to UML Profiles in Papyrus [message #997589 is a reply to message #997587]

Tue, 08 January 2013 08:56

Eclipse User

Hello André,

This feature is not supported in the current version of Papyrus. It should be supported in 0.10 (June 2013, Eclipse Kepler)

Regards,
Camille

Re: Adding constraints to UML Profiles in Papyrus [message #997688 is a reply to message #997589]

Tue, 08 January 2013 09:55

Eclipse User

Thanks for the answer Camille.
Is there any other way I can perform this validation?

Thank you once again.

Re: Adding constraints to UML Profiles in Papyrus [message #997689 is a reply to message #997688]

Tue, 08 January 2013 09:57

Eclipse User

Hello,

I guess you can implement your constraints in a new EMF Validation plug-in. Papyrus relies on this mechanism for validating the models.

Regards,
Camille

Re: Adding constraints to UML Profiles in Papyrus [message #997697 is a reply to message #997689]

Tue, 08 January 2013 10:10

Eclipse User

Hello,

Just in case you need it - a tutorial is in the EMFV help:
http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.emf.validation.doc/references/examples/oclValidationExample.html
(The link is from galileo - you should find it in the local help of your installation).

The feature shipping with Juno is:
EMF Validation Framework SDK 1.6.0.v20120328-0001-67T-96SGR75UNqZNTdeQnghI6uFA org.eclipse.emf.validation.sdk.feature.group Eclipse Modeling Project
(You get it if you install the Modelling package)

HTH
Vlad

Re: Adding constraints to UML Profiles in Papyrus [message #997725 is a reply to message #997697]

Tue, 08 January 2013 11:03

Eclipse User

Ok, I will explore that option.
Many thanks Camille and Vlad.

Re: Adding constraints to UML Profiles in Papyrus [message #997749 is a reply to message #997725]

Tue, 08 January 2013 11:58

Eclipse User

Hi

The EMFv OCL tutorial is seriously old; a patch was supplied for Juno
but never applied. https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=327956

You won't get very far trying to get profile constraints to execute
since EMFv ignores stereotype applications.
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=397508

You won't get very far trying to get profile constraints to execute
since there is no ConstraintProvider for UML Profiles.
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=397519

These are problems I have fixed in the last week. You may find that
things are much better with the Kepler M5 release (3 Feb) of MDT/OCL
which can be installed on Juno.

Regards

Ed Willink

Re: Adding constraints to UML Profiles in Papyrus [message #997796 is a reply to message #997749]

Tue, 08 January 2013 13:57

Eclipse User

Hi Ed,

So you suggest that the best option for me right now is to wait for the Kepler M5 release (3 Feb) of MDT/OCL?

Thanks for the reply.

Re: Adding constraints to UML Profiles in Papyrus [message #997837 is a reply to message #997749]

Tue, 08 January 2013 16:06

Eclipse User

Hello everyone,

I have some additional comments.

1. I have used EMFv exactly as described in those tutorials and it worked with eclipse 3.7.2. So I think it's worth giving it a shot on 3.8 / 4.2.

2. I think EMFv, as it is, does have some advantages over alternate methods described in https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=327956 .
* Constraints can be given IDs, can be grouped, documented and made visible for the user in the Properties pages.
* The oclinecore editor does not support any ecore model - so for the unsupported model the user has to edit the annotations with the sample ecore editor - which is cumbersome.
(e.g. eKeys are not supported - Is this still true ?)
* EMFv has support for live validation

3. @Andre: What exactly the constraints must constrain ? Do you have to access meta-properties defined by the stereotypes ?
If you only need standard meta-properties to express constraints, then EMFv should work.

Re: Adding constraints to UML Profiles in Papyrus [message #998024 is a reply to message #997837]

Wed, 09 January 2013 03:01

Eclipse User

Hi

On 08/01/2013 21:06, Vlad Gheorghe wrote:
> 1. I have used EMFv exactly as described in those tutorials and it
> worked with eclipse 3.7.2. So I think it's worth giving it a shot on
> 3.8 / 4.2.
In addition to the UMLProfileConstraintProvider, you may find the new
CompleteOCLConstraintProvider useful in M5. This makes the Complete OCL
constraints visible in the Preference pages.
>
> 2. I think EMFv, as it is, does have some advantages over alternate
> methods described in
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=327956 .
> * Constraints can be given IDs, can be grouped, documented and made
> visible for the user in the Properties pages.
There is a faint possibility that
http://wiki.eclipse.org/MDT/OCL/Debugger#The_Validations_View might
appear for Kepler.
> * The oclinecore editor does not support any ecore model - so for the
> unsupported model the user has to edit the annotations with the sample
> ecore editor - which is cumbersome.
> (e.g. eKeys are not supported - Is this still true ?)
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=324924 was fixed for
Indigo (20 months ago).

> * EMFv has support for live validation
>
>
> 3. @Andre: What exactly the constraints must constrain ? Do you have
> to access meta-properties defined by the stereotypes ?
> If you only need standard meta-properties to express constraints,
> then EMFv should work.
Without a UMLTraversalStrategy, the stereotypeApplication will never be
self and so no Constraint attached to a Stereotype will be evaluated.

Regards

Ed Willink

Re: Adding constraints to UML Profiles in Papyrus [message #998666 is a reply to message #998024]

Thu, 10 January 2013 08:16

Eclipse User

Hi,

Quote:

3. @Andre: What exactly the constraints must constrain ? Do you have to access meta-properties defined by the stereotypes ?
If you only need standard meta-properties to express constraints, then EMFv should work.

Answering to Vlad's question I will present an excerpt of my UML Profile metamodel:

index.php/fa/12933/0/

For instance, if the user defines a Class XisInteractionCompositeElement with compositeElementType == 'List', it can only be composed of XisActionElements with actionElementType == 'ListItem'.
Is it possible to define such a constraint?

Thanks.

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Re: Adding constraints to UML Profiles in Papyrus [message #998690 is a reply to message #998666]

Thu, 10 January 2013 09:08

Eclipse User

HI

I think you may have misunderstood 'Profile'; your example is not a
profile and has no user-defined stereotypes, so you are only using
ordinary constraints.

Regards

Ed Willink

On 10/01/2013 13:16, André Ribeiro wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Quote:
>> 3. @Andre: What exactly the constraints must constrain ? Do you have to access meta-properties defined by the stereotypes ?
>> If you only need standard meta-properties to express constraints, then EMFv should work.
>
> Answering to Vlad's question I will present an excerpt of my UML Profile metamodel:
>
>
>
> For instance, if the user defines a Class XisInteractionCompositeElement with compositeElementType == 'List', it can only be composed of XisActionElements with actionElementType == 'ListItem'.
> Is it possible to define such a constraint?
>
> Thanks.
>

Re: Adding constraints to UML Profiles in Papyrus [message #998711 is a reply to message #998690]

Thu, 10 January 2013 09:42

Eclipse User

Hi Ed,

Probably I wasn't clear.
What I've presented above is the metamodel (where the UML metaclasses were omitted) and not a model that applies my Profile.
XisInteractionSpace, XisWidget, XisInteractionCompositeElement and so on, are indeed stereotypes that can be applied to classes.
XisOperation is a stereotype that can be applied to operations, while XisArgument can be applied to arguments of a XisOperation.

Re: Adding constraints to UML Profiles in Papyrus [message #999220 is a reply to message #998711]

Fri, 11 January 2013 10:26

Eclipse User

Hi Andre,

This looks interesting.

1. What tool are you currently using ?

2. Can you provide a diagram showing the relationship between the stereotypes and UML meta-classes ?

3. Can you provide the source of the profile ?

Regards
Vlad

Re: Adding constraints to UML Profiles in Papyrus [message #999291 is a reply to message #999220]

Fri, 11 January 2013 13:36

Eclipse User

Hi Vlad,

Quote:

1. What tool are you currently using ?

I'm using Papyrus, but I've used Enterprise Architect to model the previous excerpt of the profile.

Quote:

2. Can you provide a diagram showing the relationship between the stereotypes and UML meta-classes ?

Here is what I've done so far:

index.php/fa/12962/0/

Quote:

3. Can you provide the source of the profile ?

Yes, I can provide you my Papyrus Project.

Quote:

For instance, if the user defines a Class XisInteractionCompositeElement with compositeElementType == 'List', it can only be composed of XisActionElements with actionElementType == 'ListItem'.
Is it possible to define such a constraint?

Can you please give some feedback about this?

Thank you!

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[Updated on: Mon, 14 January 2013 11:37] by Moderator

Re: Adding constraints to UML Profiles in Papyrus [message #1001964 is a reply to message #999291]

Thu, 17 January 2013 11:10

Eclipse User

Hello!

Vlad, can you please answer my question?
Is it possible to validate a model that uses my profile?

Thank you!

Re: Adding constraints to UML Profiles in Papyrus [message #1002576 is a reply to message #1001964]

Fri, 18 January 2013 16:43

Eclipse User

Hi Andre,

It is interesting that you are extending UML for this purpose.
I guess one major advantage is that you get a diagram editor with a small effort.

Well, as Camille stated here, Papyrus does not support this feature yet.
Also, as Ed said here, an EMFV-based solution would not work either at the moment.

Looking at your meta-model it seems like a quite heavy extenstion to UML.
You might consider defining your own stand-alone metamodel by using EMF/Ecore.
But in that would mean that you cannot use the Papyrus UML diagram editor for your models.
You could get a working editor for your language by using Graphiti.
But I haven't tried it myself.

You could find some ideas in the Eclipse DSL book (rather outdated).

Maybe somebody else has some better recommendations.

Best wishes
Vlad

Re: Adding constraints to UML Profiles in Papyrus [message #1006403 is a reply to message #997587]

Thu, 31 January 2013 04:20

Eclipse User

Any guess on when this would be available?

Regards
Patrik

Re: Adding constraints to UML Profiles in Papyrus [message #1006521 is a reply to message #1006403]

Thu, 31 January 2013 09:53

Eclipse User

Hi

It depends how close to the bleeding edge you like to be.

June: Kepler
End of next week: M5
Now: Latest Papyrus N-build, and MDT/OCL build from
https://hudson.eclipse.org/hudson/job/buckminster-mdt-ocl-branch-tests/
(might be an I-build tomorrow)

Realistically, I recommend that you wait for M5, and then report any
problems that you find so that may be fixed for M6.

OCL entry for profiles appears to work; see picture on my recent OCL
newsgroup posting.

Diagram validation using profile OCL is active work in progress; it
might be working but it probably isn't.

Regards

Ed Willink

On 31/01/2013 14:23, Patrik Nandorf wrote:
> Any guess on when this would be available?
>
> Regards
> Patrik

Re: Adding constraints to UML Profiles in Papyrus [message #1007843 is a reply to message #1006521]

Thu, 07 February 2013 12:24

Eclipse User

Hi Ed,

Is it now possible (with the release of M5) to perform such a validation?

Thanks.

Re: Adding constraints to UML Profiles in Papyrus [message #1007998 is a reply to message #1007843]

Thu, 07 February 2013 13:24

Eclipse User

Hi

To be honest I haven't tried recently; I've been working on a scoping
bug for direct use of base_xxx and extension_xxx at M1.

In principle, you just need to enable the Profile constraints in the
Window->Preferences->Model Validation window (they won't appear till
you've validated once) then Validate again.

Regards

Ed Willink

On 07/02/2013 17:25, André Ribeiro wrote:
> Hi Ed,
>
> Is it now possible (with the release of M5) to perform such a validation?
>
> Thanks.

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