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How to model undirected references? [message #426068]

Mon, 15 December 2008 15:55

Hao Zhang

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Registered: July 2009

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Hi,
If I have a class "Person", how to model a non-containment reference "friends"? In other words, if Person A has friends
B and C, then B and C should also have A as a friend. Can this be solved using EOpposite?

Regards,
Hao

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Re: How to model undirected references? [message #426072 is a reply to message #426068]

Mon, 15 December 2008 16:33

Ed Merks

Messages: 33137
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hao,

Unfortunately a reference can't be its own opposite. Even UML doesn't
support this since an association has to have two different ends. I
could imagine outgoing-friends and incoming-friends pairs and a derived
references that's a union of the two, but that seems not so totally
satisfying...

Hao Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
> If I have a class "Person", how to model a non-containment reference "friends"? In other words, if Person A has friends
> B and C, then B and C should also have A as a friend. Can this be solved using EOpposite?
>
> Regards,
> Hao
>

Ed Merks
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Re: How to model undirected references? [message #426075 is a reply to message #426068]

Mon, 15 December 2008 17:11

Enrico Schnepel

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Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi Hao,

What about a "FriendRelationship" class having a many
(2...2) "persons"-reference with a "Person.friendRelations"-opposite. This
would allow the navigation "Person.friendRelations.persons" but this list
would also contain the Person object you have startet with. A derived
feature "Person.friends" may return a set of friendRelations.persons
without it's owner.

Regards

Enrico

with Hao Zhang wrote:

> Hi,
> If I have a class "Person", how to model a non-containment reference
> "friends"? In other words, if Person A has friends B and C, then B and C
> should also have A as a friend. Can this be solved using EOpposite?
>
> Regards,
> Hao

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