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out of date model [message #1773622]

Sun, 01 October 2017 07:41

Emil Peric

Messages: 7
Registered: February 2015

Junior Member

Hi, i have an model which is out of date. The generated classes are in our main software development project.

Is there a way/tool to compare a list of classes bettwen the EMF model project and the classes in other project.

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Re: out of date model [message #1774302 is a reply to message #1773622]

Thu, 12 October 2017 14:09

Ed Merks

Messages: 33141
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Eclipse let's you compare entire folders with each other...

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Re: out of date model [message #1774958 is a reply to message #1774302]

Sun, 22 October 2017 17:21

Emil Peric

Messages: 7
Registered: February 2015

Junior Member

Thanks for suggestion but the problem is little bit different.

we use TEXO to generate java classes from ecore model. But during time the generated java clases (which) we use in another project got out of sync with the original model.

It would be perfect if we could generate new ecore model from these java classes.

regards.

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Re: out of date model [message #1774960 is a reply to message #1774958]

Sun, 22 October 2017 18:13

Ed Willink

Messages: 7655
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi

If you read the EMF book you will find out how you can annotate your Java so that Ecore is derivable.

But I strongly suspect that you will find it easier to manually update the Ecore so that you generate the new Java.

Realistically you will find that you have rather too much manual code; move it out of the Ecore model classes into some utility/helper/manager classes. The real model stuff should be easy to update.

Regards

Ed Willink

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Re: out of date model [message #1774962 is a reply to message #1774960]

Sun, 22 October 2017 19:43

Emil Peric

Messages: 7
Registered: February 2015

Junior Member

Hi, i have over 500 classes, and only few of them where manually changed. I tried to reverse engineer the java classes into UML and mostly succeeded (with yatta tool) but converting to ecore is failing since it doesn't interpret inheritance very good. As you suggested i wondered if there is any tool that can compare the ecore model with generated java classes.

This is for example one of the classes in my model (the language is not English) generated with TEXO (it generates jpa anotated java code from ecore model). My intention was to scan these classes and find the attributes/relations that where manually changed. We dint generate java code from EMF since it has to much unnecessary code.
package core._1;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import javax.persistence.Basic;
import javax.persistence.CascadeType;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.ManyToMany;

/**
* A representation of the model object 'Lokacija'.  
*
* @generated
*/
@Entity(name = "Lokacija")
public class Lokacija {

/**
*  
*
* @generated
*/
@Id @GeneratedValue
public long idLokacija = 0;

/**
*  
*
* @generated
*/
@Basic()
private String gIS_Latitude = null;

/**
*  
*
* @generated
*/
@Basic()
private String gIS_Longitude = null;

/**
*  
*
* @generated
*/
@Basic()
private String gIS_Height = null;

/**
*  
*
* @generated
*/
@ManyToMany(cascade = {
CascadeType.REFRESH })
private List<CL_VrstaLokacije> vrstaLokacije = new ArrayList<CL_VrstaLokacije>();

/**
*  
*
* @generated
*/
@Basic()
public String naziv = null;

/**
*  
*
* @generated
*/
@Basic()
private String opis = null;

/**
* Returns the value of 'IdLokacija' feature.
*
*  
*
* @return the value of 'IdLokacija' feature
* @generated
*/
public long getIdLokacija() {
return idLokacija;
}

/**
* Sets the '{@link Lokacija#getIdLokacija() IdLokacija}' feature.
*
*  
*
* @param newIdLokacija
* the new value of the '{@link Lokacija#getIdLokacija()
* IdLokacija}' feature.
* @generated
*/
public void setIdLokacija(long newIdLokacija) {
idLokacija = newIdLokacija;
}

/**
* Returns the value of 'GIS_Latitude' feature.
*
*  
*
* @return the value of 'GIS_Latitude' feature
* @generated
*/
public String getGIS_Latitude() {
return gIS_Latitude;
}

/**
* Sets the '{@link Lokacija#getGIS_Latitude() GIS_Latitude}'
* feature.
*
*  
*
* @param newGIS_Latitude
* the new value of the '{@link Lokacija#getGIS_Latitude()
* GIS_Latitude}' feature.
* @generated
*/
public void setGIS_Latitude(String newGIS_Latitude) {
gIS_Latitude = newGIS_Latitude;
}

/**
* Returns the value of 'GIS_Longitude' feature.
*
*  
*
* @return the value of 'GIS_Longitude' feature
* @generated
*/
public String getGIS_Longitude() {
return gIS_Longitude;
}

/**
* Sets the '{@link Lokacija#getGIS_Longitude() GIS_Longitude}'
* feature.
*
*  
*
* @param newGIS_Longitude
* the new value of the '{@link Lokacija#getGIS_Longitude()
* GIS_Longitude}' feature.
* @generated
*/
public void setGIS_Longitude(String newGIS_Longitude) {
gIS_Longitude = newGIS_Longitude;
}

/**
* Returns the value of 'GIS_Height' feature.
*
*  
*
* @return the value of 'GIS_Height' feature
* @generated
*/
public String getGIS_Height() {
return gIS_Height;
}

/**
* Sets the '{@link Lokacija#getGIS_Height() GIS_Height}' feature.
*
*  
*
* @param newGIS_Height
* the new value of the '{@link Lokacija#getGIS_Height()
* GIS_Height}' feature.
* @generated
*/
public void setGIS_Height(String newGIS_Height) {
gIS_Height = newGIS_Height;
}

/**
* Returns the value of 'VrstaLokacije' feature.
*
*  
*
* @return the value of 'VrstaLokacije' feature
* @generated
*/
public List<CL_VrstaLokacije> getVrstaLokacije() {
return vrstaLokacije;
}

/**
* Adds to the VrstaLokacije feature.
*
* @param vrstaLokacijeValue
* the value to add
* @return true if the value is added to the collection (it was not yet
* present in the collection), false otherwise
* @generated
*/
public boolean addToVrstaLokacije(CL_VrstaLokacije vrstaLokacijeValue) {
if (!vrstaLokacije.contains(vrstaLokacijeValue)) {
boolean result = vrstaLokacije.add(vrstaLokacijeValue);
return result;
}
return false;
}

/**
* Removes from the VrstaLokacije feature.
*
* @param vrstaLokacijeValue
* the value to remove
* @return true if the value is removed from the collection (it existed in
* the collection before removing), false otherwise
*
* @generated
*/
public boolean removeFromVrstaLokacije(CL_VrstaLokacije vrstaLokacijeValue) {
if (vrstaLokacije.contains(vrstaLokacijeValue)) {
boolean result = vrstaLokacije.remove(vrstaLokacijeValue);
return result;
}
return false;
}

/**
* Clears the VrstaLokacije feature.
*
* @generated
*/
public void clearVrstaLokacije() {
while (!vrstaLokacije.isEmpty()) {
removeFromVrstaLokacije(vrstaLokacije.iterator().next());
}
}

/**
* Sets the '{@link Lokacija#getVrstaLokacije() VrstaLokacije}'
* feature.
*
*  
*
* @param newVrstaLokacije
* the new value of the '{@link Lokacija#getVrstaLokacije()
* VrstaLokacije}' feature.
* @generated
*/
public void setVrstaLokacije(List<CL_VrstaLokacije> newVrstaLokacije) {
vrstaLokacije = newVrstaLokacije;
}

/**
* Returns the value of 'Naziv' feature.
*
*  
*
* @return the value of 'Naziv' feature
* @generated
*/
public String getNaziv() {
return naziv;
}

/**
* Sets the '{@link Lokacija#getNaziv() Naziv}' feature.
*
*  
*
* @param newNaziv
* the new value of the '{@link Lokacija#getNaziv() Naziv}'
* feature.
* @generated
*/
public void setNaziv(String newNaziv) {
naziv = newNaziv;
}

/**
* Returns the value of 'Opis' feature.
*
*  
*
* @return the value of 'Opis' feature
* @generated
*/
public String getOpis() {
return opis;
}

/**
* Sets the '{@link Lokacija#getOpis() Opis}' feature.
*
*  
*
* @param newOpis
* the new value of the '{@link Lokacija#getOpis() Opis}'
* feature.
* @generated
*/
public void setOpis(String newOpis) {
opis = newOpis;
}

/**
* A toString method which prints the values of all EAttributes of this
* instance.  
*
* @generated
*/
@Override
public String toString() {
return "Lokacija " + " [idLokacija: " + getIdLokacija() + "]"
+ " [gIS_Latitude: " + getGIS_Latitude() + "]"
+ " [gIS_Longitude: " + getGIS_Longitude() + "]"
+ " [gIS_Height: " + getGIS_Height() + "]" + " [naziv: "
+ getNaziv() + "]" + " [opis: " + getOpis() + "]";
}
}

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Re: out of date model [message #1774973 is a reply to message #1774962]

Mon, 23 October 2017 05:57

Ed Willink

Messages: 7655
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi

I am not aware of any tooling focused on your use case. Ecore should be the master. If Ecore generates too much code, you should investigate the many genmodel options. You could consider customizing the JET templates. But if you only want structural EMF without any of the reflection I would use a custom more modern M2T; simple structure is rather easy. This seems to be exactly what you have done with TEXO. The problem seems to be your converter was inadequate and you neglected to support all the facilities you needed.

wrt your current code, converting Java to Ecore seems really hard.

Probably easiest is to compare your 500 classes as originally generated from Ecore with those few manual evolutions. A GIT diff should make this all obvious. Reverse engineer the few changes in conjunction with fixed TYEXO.

When comparing generated Java, make sure your converter preserves cosmetic characteristics such as method ordering; best to do an alphabetic sort.

Regards

Ed Willink

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Re: out of date model [message #1774975 is a reply to message #1774973]

Mon, 23 October 2017 06:30

Ed Merks

Messages: 33141
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

EMF's usual templates include @model annotations so that you can derived the Ecore model from the generated Java interfaces. If those aren't present when using the templates you used to generate this stuff, then you're out of luck and would need to add them, which is likely more work than updating the existing out-of-date *.ecore.

Ed Merks
Professional Support: https://www.macromodeling.com/

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