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EMF, GEF overlapping interfaces [message #384452]

Tue, 27 April 2004 13:44

Chris Heald

Messages: 40
Registered: July 2009

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We're using EMF to generate the model for a GEF application.
In order to receive notification from the model my editParts need to
implement org.eclipse.emf.common.notify.Adapter.

This hasn't been a problem before but now we are using EMF to generate the
Connection Model as well. Obviously the editPart for this model should
implement org.eclipse.gef.ConnectionEditPart.

However, both these interfaces have a getTarget() method which is required
to return objects of different types.

Any ideas?
Thanks for your help
Chris

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Re: EMF, GEF overlapping interfaces [message #384458 is a reply to message #384452]

Tue, 27 April 2004 14:24

Ed Merks

Messages: 33133
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Chris,

That really bites hey. I think that JDK 1.5 would allow this kind of thing,
depending on the inheritance relation between the return types, but for 1.4 or
lower, there's nothing you can do except implement the interfaces with
different objects (that know about each other).

Chris Heald wrote:

> We're using EMF to generate the model for a GEF application.
> In order to receive notification from the model my editParts need to
> implement org.eclipse.emf.common.notify.Adapter.
>
> This hasn't been a problem before but now we are using EMF to generate the
> Connection Model as well. Obviously the editPart for this model should
> implement org.eclipse.gef.ConnectionEditPart.
>
> However, both these interfaces have a getTarget() method which is required
> to return objects of different types.
>
> Any ideas?
> Thanks for your help
> Chris

Ed Merks
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Re: EMF, GEF overlapping interfaces [message #384461 is a reply to message #384458]

Tue, 27 April 2004 14:32

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: richkulp.NO.SPAM.us.ibm.com

You don't need to have your editparts implement Adapter to receive
notification. We use this paradigm instead:

public clas MyEditpart extends SomeotherEditPart {

private Adapter emfAdapter = new AdapterImpl() {
public void notifyChanged(Notification notification) {
... do what is necessary for the notification, call
other methods within MyEditPart, etc.
}
};

public void activate() {
super.activate();
((EObject) getModel()).eAdapters().add(emfAdapter);
}

public void deactivate() {
super.deactivate();
((EObject) getModel()).eAdapters().remove(emfAdapter);
}

}

--
Thanks, Rich Kulp

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Re: EMF, GEF overlapping interfaces [message #384483 is a reply to message #384461]

Wed, 28 April 2004 06:54

Chris Heald

Messages: 40
Registered: July 2009

Member

Genius!
Simple, elegant and best of all _should_ work.

Thanks very much :)
Chris

Rich Kulp wrote:

> You don't need to have your editparts implement Adapter to receive
> notification. We use this paradigm instead:

> public clas MyEditpart extends SomeotherEditPart {

> private Adapter emfAdapter = new AdapterImpl() {
> public void notifyChanged(Notification notification) {
> ... do what is necessary for the notification, call
> other methods within MyEditPart, etc.
> }
> };

> public void activate() {
> super.activate();
> ((EObject) getModel()).eAdapters().add(emfAdapter);
> }

> public void deactivate() {
> super.deactivate();
> ((EObject) getModel()).eAdapters().remove(emfAdapter);
> }

> }

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