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Many-valued references in EMF [message #1751069]

Wed, 04 January 2017 09:48

Carsten Tsara

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Registered: March 2016

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In a model I have an object with a reference which is multiplicity-many and is not containment. And currently I'm struggling with some operations.
First, I need to override getParent() in ItemProvider for drag and drop operations. Default implementation returns actual container of the referenced object, but what I really need is to get somehow EObject which holds the list of references.

My structure is similar to this
Container1
-- MyObject1
Container2
-- MyObject2

Item1
-- Ref MyObject1
-- Ref MyObject2
Item2
-- Ref MyObject1
Item3
-- Ref MyObject2

so I have method in Item class EList<MyObject> getMyObjects(). In the UI I display only Items and references to MyObjects. And I'm struggling to get Item object for MyObject inside getParent()

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Re: Many-valued references in EMF [message #1751077 is a reply to message #1751069]

Wed, 04 January 2017 10:23

Ed Merks

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You can override org.eclipse.emf.edit.provider.ItemProviderAdapter.isWrappingNeeded(Object) to always return true. In that case, org.eclipse.emf.edit.provider.ItemProviderAdapter.createWrapper(EObject, EStructuralFeature, Object, int) will be called and will hit:

    else if (!((EReference)feature).isContainment())
    {
      value = new DelegatingWrapperItemProvider(value, object, feature, index, adapterFactory);
    }

And that will ensure that the wrapper knows the parent, but otherwise delegates to the item provider of the value for labels, children, and properties. After all, such a referenced "child" could appear more than once in the tree, so the wrapper ensures each occurrence knows the parent under which it is being shown in the tree.

Ed Merks
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Re: Many-valued references in EMF [message #1751140 is a reply to message #1751077]

Wed, 04 January 2017 21:35

Carsten Tsara

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Registered: March 2016

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Thanks, it helped me with my problem, but another one arose as a consequence.
I have DiagnosticDecorator like this
new ColumnViewerInformationControlToolTipSupport(selectionViewer, new DiagnosticDecorator.EditingDomainLocationListener(editingDomain, selectionViewer))
and inside it I get following NPE for wrapped objects

java.lang.NullPointerException: null
	at org.eclipse.jface.resource.ImageDataImageDescriptor.<init>(ImageDataImageDescriptor.java:36) ~[na:na]
	at org.eclipse.jface.resource.ImageDescriptor.createFromImage(ImageDescriptor.java:104) ~[na:na]
	at org.eclipse.emf.common.ui.ImageURIRegistry.getImageURI(ImageURIRegistry.java:51) ~[na:na]
	at org.eclipse.emf.edit.ui.provider.DiagnosticDecorator.buildToolTipMessage(DiagnosticDecorator.java:1637) ~[na:na]
	at org.eclipse.emf.edit.ui.provider.DiagnosticDecorator.buildToolTipText(DiagnosticDecorator.java:1587) ~[na:na]
	at org.eclipse.emf.edit.ui.provider.DiagnosticDecorator.getToolTipText(DiagnosticDecorator.java:1568) ~[na:na]
	at org.eclipse.emf.edit.ui.provider.DecoratingColumLabelProvider.getToolTipText(DecoratingColumLabelProvider.java:143) ~[na:na]
	at org.eclipse.emf.common.ui.viewer.ColumnViewerInformationControlToolTipSupport.shouldCreateToolTip(ColumnViewerInformationControlToolTipSupport.java:730) ~[na:na]
	at org.eclipse.emf.common.ui.viewer.ColumnViewerInformationControlToolTipSupport$3.computeInformation(ColumnViewerInformationControlToolTipSupport.java:527) ~[na:na]
	at org.eclipse.jface.text.AbstractInformationControlManager.doShowInformation(AbstractInformationControlManager.java:1131) ~[na:na]

Could you give me a hint how to fix it?

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Re: Many-valued references in EMF [message #1751154 is a reply to message #1751140]

Thu, 05 January 2017 04:57

Eike Stepper

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It seems that in org.eclipse.emf.edit.ui.provider.DiagnosticDecorator.buildToolTipMessage(StringBuilder, ILabelProvider, Object, Diagnostic, int) the label provider of your viewer returns null for one of the EObjects in the diagnostic's getData().

The cause for a NullPointerException is normally quite easy to find with the help of the debugger. See http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/EclipseDebugging/article.html on how to use it.

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Re: Many-valued references in EMF [message #1751156 is a reply to message #1751154]

Thu, 05 January 2017 06:29

Carsten Tsara

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I am able to find the cause of NPE Smile

I just could not understand the reason, that's why I asked if I could missed something in customizing ItemProviders. Thank you anyway. I found the reason: I set label providers only to the columns of the tree, but label provider also should be set to the tree itself. I was confused because this exception occurs only when I use wrappers, with EObjects everything is OK.

[Updated on: Thu, 05 January 2017 06:32]

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Re: Many-valued references in EMF [message #1751826 is a reply to message #1751156]

Sun, 15 January 2017 13:01

Carsten Tsara

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Registered: March 2016

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With wrappers I have an issue with live validation and DiagnosticDecorator. For wrapped children I see diagnostics that are related to the EObject itself, but not to the reference. How can I change this behavior?

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Re: Many-valued references in EMF [message #1751831 is a reply to message #1751826]

Sun, 15 January 2017 18:43

Ed Merks

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Sorry, but I'm not sure how that relates to this thread. I assume there's no null pointer exception involved.

If there is a problem, I'll need to reproduce it. How might I reproduce the problem you're seeing?

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