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Hi, John,
Myself, I always include an explicit "none" value in my enumerations, as
the first literal, when the enumeration needs to have optional
semantics. Sometimes I even go so far is implementing the "Null Object"
pattern by mixing in a common interface that defines an isUndefined()
operation, which usually is implemented in an enum as "this == NONE".
Would that help your situation? It would mean only updating your enums,
not your attributes of those types.
Cheers,
Christian
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 23:57 +0000, John T.E. Timm wrote:
> Of course after spending all this time investigating the code templates
> and obsessing over getting an Enumeration based attribute to be null, I
> realized that I all really need is for the attribute to be marked as
> "unsettable" to add unset to the value space. How embarrasing. :) Anyways,
> I see now that regardless of what I set the value to, if I call setXXX, it
> will mark it as set and will be serialized as such. Unfortunately, I have
> literally hundreds of attributes in my model that need to be changed.
>
> Thakns,
>
> JT
>
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Hi, John,<BR>
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Myself, I always include an explicit "none" value in my enumerations, as the first literal, when the enumeration needs to have optional semantics. Sometimes I even go so far is implementing the "Null Object" pattern by mixing in a common interface that defines an isUndefined() operation, which usually is implemented in an enum as "this == NONE".<BR>
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Would that help your situation? It would mean only updating your enums, not your attributes of those types.<BR>
<BR>
Cheers,<BR>
<BR>
Christian<BR>
<BR>
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On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 23:57 +0000, John T.E. Timm wrote:
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Of course after spending all this time investigating the code templates
and obsessing over getting an Enumeration based attribute to be null, I
realized that I all really need is for the attribute to be marked as
"unsettable" to add unset to the value space. How embarrasing. :) Anyways,
I see now that regardless of what I set the value to, if I call setXXX, it
will mark it as set and will be serialized as such. Unfortunately, I have
literally hundreds of attributes in my model that need to be changed.
Thakns,
JT
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| Re: Default value of EAttribute typed to an Enumeration [message #431776 is a reply to message #431774] |
Fri, 24 July 2009 16:03 |
 John T.E. Timm
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Ed:
What it came down to was that I actually didn't need null. What I really
needed was the "unset" value. The isUnsettable property takes care of this
for me.
Thanks,
JT
Ed Merks wrote:
> John,
> I'm not sure in the end if you got what you wanted. You could make it
> unsettable and you could specify an explicit default. If you really
> want null to be a value, you have to create another EDataType that wraps
> the generated enumeration type; any model with EEnums generated from XML
> Schemas does this automatically to support nillable elements...
> John T.E. Timm wrote:
>> Of course after spending all this time investigating the code
>> templates and obsessing over getting an Enumeration based attribute to
>> be null, I realized that I all really need is for the attribute to be
>> marked as "unsettable" to add unset to the value space. How
>> embarrasing. :) Anyways, I see now that regardless of what I set the
>> value to, if I call setXXX, it will mark it as set and will be
>> serialized as such. Unfortunately, I have literally hundreds of
>> attributes in my model that need to be changed.
>>
>> Thakns,
>>
>> JT
>>
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| Re: Default value of EAttribute typed to an Enumeration [message #431777 is a reply to message #431767] |
Fri, 24 July 2009 16:09 |
John T.E. Timm
Messages: 161
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Hi Christian,
Thank you for your suggestions. I am modeling various controlled
vocabularies that are part of a standard with these enumerations. I think
that adding an explicit "none" value could work well in my situation but I
would like to leave the actual enumerations alone if possible. In my
application, I decided that I care more about the "unset" value. At first
I thought that getting the Enumeration to be null was the only way, but
with the isUnsettable option, the generated code keeps track of a separate
"unset" value which I feel should work well.
Thanks,
JT
Christian W. Damus wrote:
> Hi, John,
> Myself, I always include an explicit "none" value in my enumerations, as
> the first literal, when the enumeration needs to have optional
> semantics. Sometimes I even go so far is implementing the "Null Object"
> pattern by mixing in a common interface that defines an isUndefined()
> operation, which usually is implemented in an enum as "this == NONE".
> Would that help your situation? It would mean only updating your enums,
> not your attributes of those types.
> Cheers,
> Christian
> On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 23:57 +0000, John T.E. Timm wrote:
>> Of course after spending all this time investigating the code templates
>> and obsessing over getting an Enumeration based attribute to be null, I
>> realized that I all really need is for the attribute to be marked as
>> "unsettable" to add unset to the value space. How embarrasing. :) Anyways,
>> I see now that regardless of what I set the value to, if I call setXXX, it
>> will mark it as set and will be serialized as such. Unfortunately, I have
>> literally hundreds of attributes in my model that need to be changed.
>>
>> Thakns,
>>
>> JT
>>
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