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[acceleo] Find the root element [message #1798686]

Thu, 22 November 2018 16:59

Shimon Zadok

Messages: 24
Registered: May 2016

Junior Member

Hi Guys,

Does anyone knows how to to retrieve the root element in the current model or even find it by a certain criteria?
That find could be called any where in the 'mtl' files...

Thanks for any help :-)

This would allow me to calculate the 'include/import' path for library beginning with the root element down to the class.

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Re: [acceleo] Find the root element [message #1798692 is a reply to message #1798686]

Thu, 22 November 2018 21:14

Ed Willink

Messages: 7680
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi

The root element is the element for which eContainer() is null. EcoreUtil.getRootContainer solves the problem in Java. You could invoke it from Acceleo or recode as a query. Have you checked the Acceleo documentation? it is the kind of thing that the developers added to the library.

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Ed Willink

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Re: [acceleo] Find the root element [message #1798724 is a reply to message #1798692]

Fri, 23 November 2018 10:07

Shimon Zadok

Messages: 24
Registered: May 2016

Junior Member

Thanks for the help and in need of new direction.

EcoreUtil.getRootContainer(Package) gives: "org.eclipse.uml2.uml.internal.impl.UMLPackageImpl@75cd8043 (name: uml) (nsURI: http://www.eclipse.org/uml2/5.0.0/UML, nsPrefix: uml)".

How could I use 'EcoreUtil.getRootContainer(Package)'?

I think I need to give structure example of my model as it seems I have multiple root elements and I need the "executed" model's root element.

My model structure is as follows:

common
framework
app1 app2 etc...

'common' contains some model and profiles (which are root elements to my objects)
In 'framework' I have a package 'Lib' with PackageMerge of those objects needed.
In 'app1' I have a new instance of 'Lib' with PackageMerge of those objects needed too...

Then my root element I search for is not in 'common' model, but in the 'app1' model.

[Updated on: Fri, 23 November 2018 10:27]

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Re: [acceleo] Find the root element [message #1798726 is a reply to message #1798724]

Fri, 23 November 2018 10:31

Ed Willink

Messages: 7680
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi

Read the documentation on invoke that may be used to call arbitrary Java operations. Beware getting the declarations right is tricky and there is limited helpful diagnosis, so start with a simple example.

Regards

Ed Willink

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Re: [acceleo] Find the root element [message #1798731 is a reply to message #1798726]

Fri, 23 November 2018 11:54

Shimon Zadok

Messages: 24
Registered: May 2016

Junior Member

Oh, I appologize, I do know how to use Java operation from Acceleo :-)

I added the output of the new query (using invoke) with the suggested call as follows:

[query public getRootContainer(aType : OclType) : Sequence(OclType)
	= invoke('org.eclipse.emf.ecore.util.EcoreUtil', 'getRootContainer(org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EObject)', Sequence{aType})
/]

Please notice that it didn't give me an actual 'root element' but the:

getRootContainer: "org.eclipse.uml2.uml.internal.impl.UMLPackageImpl@75cd8043 (name: uml) (nsURI: http://www.eclipse.org/uml2/5.0.0/UML, nsPrefix: uml)"

which is not any of my root elements but seems like the namespace of the UML2 in use by the

[module generate('http://www.eclipse.org/uml2/5.0.0/UML')]

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Re: [acceleo] Find the root element [message #1798733 is a reply to message #1798731]

Fri, 23 November 2018 12:05

Ed Willink

Messages: 7680
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi

Like I said. It's hard to get right. Us a debugger to seed why you have a bug.

Regards

Ed Willink

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