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eContainer in other resource [message #1708161]

Mon, 14 September 2015 10:07

Anthony Garmendia

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Registered: May 2014

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Hi all,

I have a model A.xmi that contains a model B.xmi throught a containment reference that is a proxy. Both resources (A.xmi and B.xmi) are load and inside a ResourceSet. The thing is that I want to obtain the eContainer from an EObject y (the first element of B.xmi), but the y.eContainer is null and taking into account the definition of eContainer would be right thing. I've tried some things but without result, so I would like to know, how to obtain the eContainer in this case?

Thanks for any help.

Cheers,
Anthony

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Re: eContainer in other resource [message #1708225 is a reply to message #1708161]

Mon, 14 September 2015 18:29

Ed Merks

Messages: 30559
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Anthony,

If you want the container reference to be serialized (the only way it
will be not null until the containment reference to it is resolved), you
have to define an actual feature for it (an opposite for the containment
reference) and make it non-transient.

On 14/09/2015 12:07 PM, Anthony Garmendia wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a model A.xmi that contains a model B.xmi throught a
> containment reference that is a proxy. Both resources (A.xmi and
> B.xmi) are load and inside a ResourceSet. The thing is that I want to
> obtain the eContainer from an EObject y (the first element of B.xmi),
> but the y.eContainer is null and taking into account the definition of
> eContainer would be right thing. I've tried some things but without
> result, so I would like to know, how to obtain the eContainer in this
> case?
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Cheers,
> Anthony

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Re: eContainer in other resource [message #1708242 is a reply to message #1708225]

Mon, 14 September 2015 21:48

Anthony Garmendia

Messages: 48
Registered: May 2014

Member

Hi Ed,

Thank you very much for the reply. The thing is that I don't want to force that the Ecore Metamodel need to define an opposite for the containment
reference. I would like to get the eContainer when the opposite is not defined.
There is any way to get the eContainer without define this opposite containment reference?

Cheers,
Anthony

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Re: eContainer in other resource [message #1708274 is a reply to message #1708242]

Tue, 15 September 2015 07:14

Ed Merks

Messages: 30559
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Anthony,

Unless there is a serialized reference to the container, the object
being contained has no knowledge of its container until the container
resolves the proxy to the child. On a modeled container reference can
be serialized...

On 14/09/2015 11:48 PM, Anthony Garmendia wrote:
> Hi Ed,
>
> Thank you very much for the reply. The thing is that I don't want to
> force that the Ecore Metamodel need to define an opposite for the
> containment reference. I would like to get the eContainer when the
> opposite is not defined.
> There is any way to get the eContainer without define this opposite
> containment reference?
> Cheers,
> Anthony

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