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Extend OCL [message #1719837]

Tue, 12 January 2016 09:15

Eclipse User

Hi,

I am completely newbie in the OCL world.

I would like to extend the OCL standard library to add new types. As an example, it would be nice to add constraints on dates in my files (isBefore, isAfter). I made some researchs on the internet and I came with the idea that it is possible. I would use the java.util.Date class.

Does anyone know how to extend the OCL standard library / or know how to add new types (and particularly types based on Java classes ?).

Thanks a lot

Re: Extend OCL [message #1719873 is a reply to message #1719837]

Tue, 12 January 2016 13:59

Eclipse User

Hi

The new Pivot-based OCL has an extensible library model, so you can
extend it in similar fashion to its definition. Unfortunately I haven't
yet written a tutorial.

http://git.eclipse.org/c/ocl/org.eclipse.ocl.git/tree/plugins/org.eclipse.ocl.pivot/model/OCL-2.5.oclstdlib

(declarations referencing Java implementation classes.)

http://git.eclipse.org/c/ocl/org.eclipse.ocl.git/tree/examples/org.eclipse.ocl.examples.codegen/model/CGLibrary.oclstdlib

is an example extension.

If you just want to add constraints to Java classes you can define them
as EDataTypes. See EDate in Ecore.ecore.

Using OCLinEcore you can add internal constramts.

Using Complete OCL you can add external constraints.

If you're a newbie, I suggest using OCLinEcore since that gives you the
most integration. Follow the tutorials.

Regards

Ed Willink

On 12/01/2016 14:16, John Prestwick wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am completely newbie in the OCL world.
>
> I would like to extend the OCL standard library to add new types. As
> an example, it would be nice to add constraints on dates in my files
> (isBefore, isAfter). I made some researchs on the internet and I came
> with the idea that it is possible. I would use the java.util.Date class.
>
> Does anyone know how to extend the OCL standard library / or know how
> to add new types (and particularly types based on Java classes ?).
>
> Thanks a lot
>

Re: Extend OCL [message #1721025 is a reply to message #1719873]

Fri, 22 January 2016 11:35

Eclipse User

Hi,

Thanks for your answer.

So, I defined my attributes as EDate.

I am able to use some operations (<, >) on Dates directly into my (Complete) OCL constraints. That is nice.

I want now to add new operations by using Java methods that I will create.

As you told me, I need to extend the OCL Standard Library.

The file that you gave me as an example is the following (I've deleted 2 operations) :

import 'http://www.eclipse.org/ocl/2015/Library';

library ocl : ocl = 'http://www.eclipse.org/ocl/2015/Library'
{
type String {
	operation getSeverity() : Integer[1] => 'org.eclipse.ocl.pivot.library.string.CGStringGetSeverityOperation';

}
}

When copying this file and opening, I have the following error :

index.php/fa/24724/0/

I have no idea how to link the oclstdlib file with the org.eclipse.ocl.pivot.library.string.CGStringGetSeverityOperation.java ?

And I am not able to find org.eclipse.ocl.pivot.library.string.CGStringGetSeverityOperation.getSeverity() to see how it is implemented.

Could you help me on this two points ? This might looks stupid but I am really a newbie.

Thanks a lot
Regards

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