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Create Object from String [message #478249]

Thu, 19 March 2009 13:24

Iris Groher

Messages: 33
Registered: July 2009

Member

Hi all,

Is it possible to use the UMLFactory to create an object from the String
representation of its type? For example, I want to create a new class
using "org.eclipse.uml2.uml.Class".

Thanks a lot for your help!

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Re: Create Object from String [message #478251 is a reply to message #478249]

Fri, 20 March 2009 22:56

Rafael Chaves

Messages: 362
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

This is more of an EMF question. The API you want is
EPackage#getEClassifier(String) and EFactory#create(EClass).

In the case of UML2, this would do the trick:

EObject aClass =
UMLFactory.eInstance.create(
UMLPackage.eInstance.getEClassifier(
"org.eclipse.uml2.uml.Class"
)
);

Cheers,

Rafael
http://abstratt.com/blog/

Iris Groher wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to use the UMLFactory to create an object from the String
> representation of its type? For example, I want to create a new class
> using "org.eclipse.uml2.uml.Class".
> Thanks a lot for your help!
>
>
>

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Re: Create Object from String [message #478253 is a reply to message #478251]

Tue, 24 March 2009 11:29

Iris Groher

Messages: 33
Registered: July 2009

Member

Thank you so much for your help! I managed to create UML objects. Is there
a way to set the ID of the object? I usually get the ID by calling:

eobject.eResource().getURIFragment(eobject)

But eResource is of course null after creating the object the way I did.

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Re: Create Object from String [message #478254 is a reply to message #478253]

Tue, 24 March 2009 12:11

Ed Merks

Messages: 31032
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Iris,

The extrinsic IDs are managed by the resource so until you add the new
object to a resource (directly or indirectly by adding it to a
containing object already in a resource) it won't have an ID.

Iris Groher wrote:
> Thank you so much for your help! I managed to create UML objects. Is
> there a way to set the ID of the object? I usually get the ID by calling:
>
> eobject.eResource().getURIFragment(eobject)
>
> But eResource is of course null after creating the object the way I did.
>
>
>

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