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Genmodel produces Object references rather than EObject - why? [message #505781] Mon, 04 January 2010 23:11 Go to next message
Simon Pope is currently offline Simon PopeFriend
Messages: 28
Registered: July 2009
Junior Member
I'm using EMF 2.6M4 with Java compliance 6.0. I *was* using 2.5 and Java
compliance 5.0, but this behavior seems so strange I have to ask someone.

I have a method/operation defined in my ECore model as:

void pruneUnused(EObject scope),

i.e.

<eOperations name="pruneUnused">
<eParameters
name="scope"
eType="ecore:EClass http://www.eclipse.org/emf/2002/Ecore#//EObject"/>
</eOperations>


When I generate the Java code, it creates an interface method like this:

void pruneUnused(Object scope).

Note that it produces an *Object* parameter, rather than an *EObject*
parameter? Weird, huh?

Does anyone know why this is happening?
Re: Genmodel produces Object references rather than EObject - why? [message #505782 is a reply to message #505781] Mon, 04 January 2010 23:18 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Simon Pope is currently offline Simon PopeFriend
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Registered: July 2009
Junior Member
OK, Part of the way there.

It's because of the "Suppress EMF Types" flag in the genmodel options --
but this flag used to only be for collections, so that it would generate
List<?> rather than EList<?> for public methods, right?

Or is my recollection faulty and has this behavior always been there?



On 5/01/10 10:11 AM, Simon Pope wrote:
> I'm using EMF 2.6M4 with Java compliance 6.0. I *was* using 2.5 and Java
> compliance 5.0, but this behavior seems so strange I have to ask someone.
>
> I have a method/operation defined in my ECore model as:
>
> void pruneUnused(EObject scope),
>
> i.e.
>
> <eOperations name="pruneUnused">
> <eParameters
> name="scope"
> eType="ecore:EClass http://www.eclipse.org/emf/2002/Ecore#//EObject"/>
> </eOperations>
>
>
> When I generate the Java code, it creates an interface method like this:
>
> void pruneUnused(Object scope).
>
> Note that it produces an *Object* parameter, rather than an *EObject*
> parameter? Weird, huh?
>
> Does anyone know why this is happening?
Re: Genmodel produces Object references rather than EObject - why? [message #505785 is a reply to message #505782] Mon, 04 January 2010 18:48 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Simon Pope is currently offline Simon PopeFriend
Messages: 28
Registered: July 2009
Junior Member
OK, this just feels so wrong. Take a look at the code when EObject is
replaced by Object as part of code generation:

public void setKey(Object newKey) {
Object oldKey = key;
key = (EObject) newKey;

if (eNotificationRequired())
eNotify(new ENotificationImpl(this, Notification.SET,
Package.CONTEXT__KEY, oldKey, key));
}

Spot the problem? Yep, its the cast of newKey to EObject. This is crazy
and could lead to compiled code that will throw a ClassCastException if
a non-EObject is passed as the key. I'm filing a bug over this one.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=298803
Re: Genmodel produces Object references rather than EObject - why? [message #505864 is a reply to message #505785] Tue, 05 January 2010 07:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ed Merks is currently offline Ed MerksFriend
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Simon,

It's definitely working as intended. We generally expect that people
suppress EMF types when they want their APIs to be EMF free. So we'd
generally expect it to be used only when the generated interfaces also
don't extend EObject. Of course in that case, whenever an instance must
be passed an EObject-requiring method, casting will be required. We've
not change the behavior of the Suppress EMF Types flag in recent times...


Simon Pope wrote:
> OK, this just feels so wrong. Take a look at the code when EObject is
> replaced by Object as part of code generation:
>
> public void setKey(Object newKey) {
> Object oldKey = key;
> key = (EObject) newKey;
>
> if (eNotificationRequired())
> eNotify(new ENotificationImpl(this, Notification.SET,
> Package.CONTEXT__KEY, oldKey, key));
> }
>
> Spot the problem? Yep, its the cast of newKey to EObject. This is
> crazy and could lead to compiled code that will throw a
> ClassCastException if a non-EObject is passed as the key. I'm filing a
> bug over this one.
>
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=298803


Ed Merks
Professional Support: https://www.macromodeling.com/
Re: Genmodel produces Object references rather than EObject - why? [message #506066 is a reply to message #505864] Wed, 06 January 2010 00:03 Go to previous message
Simon Pope is currently offline Simon PopeFriend
Messages: 28
Registered: July 2009
Junior Member
OK, well that makes sense.

On 5/01/10 10:50 PM, Ed Merks wrote:
> Simon,
>
> It's definitely working as intended. We generally expect that people
> suppress EMF types when they want their APIs to be EMF free. So we'd
> generally expect it to be used only when the generated interfaces also
> don't extend EObject. Of course in that case, whenever an instance must
> be passed an EObject-requiring method, casting will be required. We've
> not change the behavior of the Suppress EMF Types flag in recent times...
>
>
> Simon Pope wrote:
>> OK, this just feels so wrong. Take a look at the code when EObject is
>> replaced by Object as part of code generation:
>>
>> public void setKey(Object newKey) {
>> Object oldKey = key;
>> key = (EObject) newKey;
>>
>> if (eNotificationRequired())
>> eNotify(new ENotificationImpl(this, Notification.SET,
>> Package.CONTEXT__KEY, oldKey, key));
>> }
>>
>> Spot the problem? Yep, its the cast of newKey to EObject. This is
>> crazy and could lead to compiled code that will throw a
>> ClassCastException if a non-EObject is passed as the key. I'm filing a
>> bug over this one.
>>
>> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=298803
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