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| Iterate over Associations [message #56815] |
Tue, 27 May 2008 10:20  |
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Hi christian and others,
In my language I interpret Associations (with all ends by the Association) as
Set instances, (and also as Types), so I can iterate over an Associations contents:
someAssociation.select( i:someAssociation | condition);
Afais OCL does not have this notion, am I right?
Thanks,
Felix
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| Re: Iterate over Associations [message #56842 is a reply to message #56815] |
Tue, 27 May 2008 10:53  |
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Originally posted by: cdamus.zeligsoft.com
Hi, Felix,
Yes, the instances of associations are, essentially, tuples whose values
are the objects referenced by the member ends. In the context of an
Association, you will see that the multiplicity of a member end (from
the perspective of the association) is exactly 1 (try it in the
interactive console example; it should work).
Given an association named A, you can do an expression like this:
A.allInstances->select(a : A | <condition-on-ends>)
because Associations are classifiers and, therefore, types in the OCL
type system. This should work in MDT OCL, so long as you give your
associations names (we don't yet support the implicit names defined by
UML).
HTH,
Christian
On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 16:20 +0200, Felix Dorner wrote:
> Hi christian and others,
>
> In my language I interpret Associations (with all ends by the Association) as
> Set instances, (and also as Types), so I can iterate over an Associations contents:
>
> someAssociation.select( i:someAssociation | condition);
>
> Afais OCL does not have this notion, am I right?
>
> Thanks,
> Felix
>
>
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| Re: Iterate over Associations [message #56894 is a reply to message #56868] |
Tue, 27 May 2008 21:41 |
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Originally posted by: cdamus.zeligsoft.com
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Hi, Felix,
I'm not sure. A quick look for it in the UML Superstructure didn't turn
it up, but then I didn't try very hard.
You might try asking on the UML2 newsgroup ... I know Kenn followed some
algorithm in the naming of associations in the MDT UML2 implementation.
The implicit names provided by UML2 look like A_<end1-name>_<end2-name>,
where <end1-name> and <end2-name> may, themselves, be implicit role
names based on the end classifier names.
E.g., given an association:
Apple -------- Tree
with unnamed ends, the implicit name of the association is A_apple_tree
or some such.
Cheers,
Christian
On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 17:13 +0200, Felix Dorner wrote:
> Christian W. Damus wrote:
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> Hi Christian,
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> i forgot about the mighty allInstances operator. Thanks.
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> >(we don't yet support the implicit names defined by
> > UML).
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> I didn't know that there's an implicit name, can I find about this in the OCL
> spec or the UML superstructure?
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>
> Felix
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Hi, Felix,<BR>
<BR>
I'm not sure. A quick look for it in the UML Superstructure didn't turn it up, but then I didn't try very hard.<BR>
<BR>
You might try asking on the UML2 newsgroup ... I know Kenn followed some algorithm in the naming of associations in the MDT UML2 implementation. The implicit names provided by UML2 look like A_<end1-name>_<end2-name>, where <end1-name> and <end2-name> may, themselves, be implicit role names based on the end classifier names.<BR>
<BR>
E.g., given an association:<BR>
<BR>
Apple -------- Tree<BR>
<BR>
with unnamed ends, the implicit name of the association is A_apple_tree or some such.<BR>
<BR>
Cheers,<BR>
<BR>
Christian<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 17:13 +0200, Felix Dorner wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Christian W. Damus wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Hi Christian,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">i forgot about the mighty allInstances operator. Thanks.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> >(we don't yet support the implicit names defined by</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> UML).</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I didn't know that there's an implicit name, can I find about this in the OCL </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">spec or the UML superstructure?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Felix</FONT>
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