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Type is introduced when model is serialized [message #1744155]

Thu, 22 September 2016 20:58

Alex Kravets

Messages: 561
Registered: November 2009

Senior Member

My ecore model has reference to an interface, which is implemented by two concrete objects. Here are parts of model in question:

  <eClassifiers xsi:type="ecore:EClass" name="Zoo">
    <eStructuralFeatures xsi:type="ecore:EReference" name="animal" upperBound="-1"
        eType="#//Animal" containment="true"/>
  </eClassifiers>
...
...
  <eClassifiers xsi:type="ecore:EClass" name="Lion" eSuperTypes="#//Animal"/>
  <eClassifiers xsi:type="ecore:EClass" name="Monkey" eSuperTypes="#//Animal">

When I add a Lion to my model: Zoo.getAnimal().add(Lion) and Zoo.getAnimal().add(Monkey) the model is serialized as follows:

<bdi:Zoo>
     <animal xsi:type="bdi:Lion"/>
    <animal xsi:type="bdi:Monkey"/>
</bdi:Zoo>

Is it possible to persist model so that I don't get type generated for animal element, but instead concrete type is serialized:

<bdi:Zoo>
     <Lion/>
    <Monkey/>
</bdi:Zoo>

Thanks,
Alex

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Re: Type is introduced when model is serialized [message #1744177 is a reply to message #1744155]

Fri, 23 September 2016 08:02

Ed Merks

Messages: 33136
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

With a great deal of effort and all kinds of magical extended metadata annotations along with a messier model API you could achieve something like this as describe in this old blog:

http://ed-merks.blogspot.de/2007/12/winters-icy-grip.html

Ed Merks
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