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Sorting an EList for serialization [message #1124536]

Thu, 03 October 2013 16:37

Robert Brodt

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Registered: August 2010
Location: Colorado Springs, CO

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Hi all,

I have a need to sort the objects in an EList feature in my model (for the purposes of limiting the number of forward references) prior to saving but I need to restore their original order immediately after the save is complete.

I've added a hack to save the original EList order, do the sort (using ECollections) and then restoring the EList contents using ECollections.setEList(). This seems to work, but is really ugly.

My question: is there support for doing this kind of thing in EMF core (similar to reordering features using XMLSaveImpl.Lookup), or do I need to use this ugly hack?

Thanks!
Bob

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Re: Sorting an EList for serialization [message #1124547 is a reply to message #1124536]

Thu, 03 October 2013 16:47

Ed Merks

Messages: 33141
Registered: July 2009

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Bob,

No, there's nothing to support something like that directly. The
feature's value is fetched by
org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xmi.impl.XMLHelperImpl.getValue(EObject,
EStructuralFeature), so perhaps you hook into that to substitute a list
with a different order; be cause that the list must implement internal APIs.

On 03/10/2013 6:37 PM, Robert Brodt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a need to sort the objects in an EList feature in my model (for
> the purposes of limiting the number of forward references) prior to
> saving but I need to restore their original order immediately after
> the save is complete.
>
> I've added a hack to save the original EList order, do the sort (using
> ECollections) and then restoring the EList contents using
> ECollections.setEList(). This seems to work, but is really ugly.
>
> My question: is there support for doing this kind of thing in EMF core
> (similar to reordering features using XMLSaveImpl.Lookup), or do I
> need to use this ugly hack?
>
> Thanks!
> Bob

Ed Merks
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