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OCL Enumeration ordered? [message #553661]

Wed, 18 August 2010 08:03

Eclipse User

Playing around with the enumerations in OCL I am wondering, whether an enumeration is ordered in OCL and how to access the ordinal number of an element.

If I retrieve for example the instances of an enumeration in the OCL Interactive Console by

EnumType.allInstances()

I get something like

Element1 = 0
Element2 = 1
Element3 = 2

But I see no possibility to access the ordinal ("0", "1" etc.).
Any ideas?

[Updated on: Wed, 18 August 2010 08:03] by Moderator

Re: OCL Enumeration ordered? [message #553740 is a reply to message #553661]

Wed, 18 August 2010 12:21

Eclipse User

Hi Joern

EnumType.allInstances()->asSequence()->indexOf(...) will give you a
1-based integer.

But since allInstances() returns a Set, you will be at the mercy of the
implmentation. Ordering will only be sensible if the implementation
happens to use a LinkedHashSet or List.

However UML defines Enumeration::ownedLiteral as ordered, so I'll raise
an OMG OCL issue to get Enumeration.allInstances changed to return an
OrderedSet.

Regards

Ed Willink

On 18/08/2010 13:03, Joern wrote:
> Playing around with the enumerations in OCL I am wondering, whether an
> enumeration is ordered in OCL and how to access the ordinal number of an
> element.
>
> If I retrieve for example the instances of an enumeration in the OCL
> Interactive Console by EnumType.allInstances() I get something like
> Element1 = 0
> Element2 =1
> Element3=2
> But I see no possibility to access the ordinal ("0", "1" etc.).
> Any ideas?

Re: OCL Enumeration ordered? [message #553750 is a reply to message #553740]

Wed, 18 August 2010 13:11

Eclipse User

Hi Ed,

thanks for your quick reply.

> EnumType.allInstances()->asSequence()->indexOf(...)

Does not work for me (at least the OCL Interpreter Console does not compute). I will post a bug.

Done: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=323069

> But since allInstances() returns a Set, you will be at the mercy of the
> implmentation. Ordering will only be sensible if the implementation

Therefore I will have to switch to define explicit ordinals.

Thank you again,

Joern

[Updated on: Wed, 18 August 2010 13:26] by Moderator

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