Eclipse Community Forums: EMF » Defining a new DataType for EMF/Ecore in UML

Help

Home

Home » Modeling » EMF » Defining a new DataType for EMF/Ecore in UML

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator

Defining a new DataType for EMF/Ecore in UML [message #825200]

Tue, 20 March 2012 15:41

Christoph Reuteler

Messages: 7
Registered: March 2012

Junior Member

I am trying to define a new DataType in a class diagram (UML-Tool: Visual Paradigm)as explained in the book "EMF Eclipse Modeling Framework", page 131. For example:
<<datatype>Point <<javaclass>>org.eclipse....Point.

When i import the model i get a error message:
-The required feature 'eAttributeType' of 'platform:/resource/test/model.ecore#//test/Point/orgeclipsedraw2dgeometryPoint' must be set model.

Could anybody help me?

Thanks

Attachment: Test.xmi.uml
(Size: 372.63KB, Downloaded 314 times)

Report message to a moderator

Re: Defining a new DataType for EMF/Ecore in UML [message #825206 is a reply to message #825200]

Tue, 20 March 2012 15:49

Ed Merks

Messages: 33137
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Christoph,

It's better to ask about UML on the eclipse.modeling.mdt.uml2
newsgroup/forum.

One approach you might try is to define it in Ecore, and use the
*.genmodel's Export... from the context menu to export to UML and see
how it looks...

On 20/03/2012 4:41 PM, Christoph Reuteler wrote:
> I am trying to define a new DataType in a class diagram (UML-Tool: Visual Paradigm)as explained in the book "EMF Eclipse Modeling Framework", page 131. For example:
> <<datatype>Point<<javaclass>>org.eclipse....Point.
>
> When i import the model i get a error message:
> -The required feature 'eAttributeType' of 'platform:/resource/test/model.ecore#//test/Point/orgeclipsedraw2dgeometryPoint' must be set model.
>
> Could anybody help me?
>
> Thanks
>
>

Ed Merks
Professional Support: https://www.macromodeling.com/

Report message to a moderator

Re: Defining a new DataType for EMF/Ecore in UML [message #825235 is a reply to message #825206]

Tue, 20 March 2012 16:37

Christoph Reuteler

Messages: 7
Registered: March 2012

Junior Member

Hello Ed

I have tried it out and defined the new data type like this:
<<primitive>> <<EDataType>> Point and the attribute as i had it.
Wen is start the genmodel i get now error message.
In the ecore file there is a new EData Type withe name Point but the Instance Type Name is also Point instead of org.eclipse....Point.

Have you any idea how to define the attribute properly?

Thanks a lot.

Christoph

Report message to a moderator

Re: Defining a new DataType for EMF/Ecore in UML [message #825244 is a reply to message #825235]

Tue, 20 March 2012 16:49

Ed Merks

Messages: 33137
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Christoph,

Comments below.

On 20/03/2012 5:37 PM, Christoph Reuteler wrote:
> Hello Ed
>
> I have tried it out and defined the new data type like this:
> <<primitive>> <<EDataType>> Point and the attribute as i had it.
I'm not sure what primitive means. In Java they're types like int, but
in UML, I don't know. I'm sure you need to specify an instance type
name somehow because there's no other way for it to be figured out.
> Wen is start the genmodel i get now error message.
> In the ecore file there is a new EData Type withe name Point but the
> Instance Type Name is also Point instead of org.eclipse....Point.
>
> Have you any idea how to define the attribute properly?
It sounds like a problem with defining a data type not with defining an
attribute (though your previous post sounded like an attribute without a
type at all). All these are really UML2 questions. That project
contributes the importer and the exporter...
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Christoph
>

Ed Merks
Professional Support: https://www.macromodeling.com/

Report message to a moderator

Re: Defining a new DataType for EMF/Ecore in UML [message #825259 is a reply to message #825244]

Tue, 20 March 2012 17:07

Christoph Reuteler

Messages: 7
Registered: March 2012

Junior Member

I'm not really UML expert. According to the UML book it seamed very easy to create a new DataType in UML. In the ecore file the new type is recognized as EDataType and in the class test the attribute point is also recognized as EDataType. As you mentioned there must be a keyword in UML to tell EMF that it is a InstanceType.

Thanks

Report message to a moderator

Re: Defining a new DataType for EMF/Ecore in UML [message #825273 is a reply to message #825259]

Tue, 20 March 2012 17:14

Ed Merks

Messages: 33137
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Christoph,

It's not a case of it being an instance type, it's a case of it having
and instance type. I assume you're specifying the Ecore profile; there
must be a property you can set for this...

On 20/03/2012 6:07 PM, Christoph Reuteler wrote:
> I'm not really UML expert. According to the UML book it seamed very
> easy to create a new DataType in UML. In the ecore file the new type
> is recognized as EDataType and in the class test the attribute point
> is also recognized as EDataType. As you mentioned there must be a
> keyword in UML to tell EMF that it is a InstanceType.
>
> Thanks

Ed Merks
Professional Support: https://www.macromodeling.com/

Report message to a moderator

Re: Defining a new DataType for EMF/Ecore in UML [message #825281 is a reply to message #825273]

Tue, 20 March 2012 17:25

Christoph Reuteler

Messages: 7
Registered: March 2012

Junior Member

No Message Body

Report message to a moderator

Re: Defining a new DataType for EMF/Ecore in UML [message #825283 is a reply to message #825273]

Tue, 20 March 2012 17:26

Ed Willink

Messages: 7655
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi

You can look at /org.eclipse.uml2.uml/model/Ecore.uml for many examples
of ok EDataType declarations.

Regards

Ed Willink

On 20/03/2012 13:14, Ed Merks wrote:
> Christoph,
>
> It's not a case of it being an instance type, it's a case of it having
> and instance type. I assume you're specifying the Ecore profile;
> there must be a property you can set for this...
>
>
> On 20/03/2012 6:07 PM, Christoph Reuteler wrote:
>> I'm not really UML expert. According to the UML book it seamed very
>> easy to create a new DataType in UML. In the ecore file the new type
>> is recognized as EDataType and in the class test the attribute point
>> is also recognized as EDataType. As you mentioned there must be a
>> keyword in UML to tell EMF that it is a InstanceType.
>>
>> Thanks

Report message to a moderator