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Annotated Java import issues with EMF 2.9 [message #1236459] Mon, 27 January 2014 09:03 Go to next message
Diego F is currently offline Diego FFriend
Messages: 3
Registered: April 2012
Junior Member
Hi to all,

after switching to EMF 2.9 I cannot correctly generate the Ecore/Genmodel anymore. The produced ecore contains EStructuralFeatures, EReferences and EAttribures as model items instead of referencing the EMF's ecore types.

To generate my model, I use the 'Annotated Java' model import option from the IDE.

The following method:
import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EStructuralFeature;
...
	/**
	 * @model parameters = "EStructuralFeature"
	 */
	public boolean isDeclarationGroup(EStructuralFeature feature);

was imported into the model's ecore as follows until EMF 2.8
    <eOperations name="isDeclarationGroup" eType="ecore:EDataType http://www.eclipse.org/emf/2002/Ecore#//EBoolean">
      <eParameters name="feature" eType="ecore:EClass platform:/plugin/org.eclipse.emf.ecore/model/Ecore.ecore#//EStructuralFeature"/>
    </eOperations>
    <eOperations name="getDeclarationGroup" eType="#//DeclarationGroup">
      <eParameters name="reference" eType="ecore:EClass platform:/plugin/org.eclipse.emf.ecore/model/Ecore.ecore#//EReference"/>
    </eOperations>

but since EMF 2.9 produces
    <eOperations name="isDeclarationGroup" eType="ecore:EDataType http://www.eclipse.org/emf/2002/Ecore#//EBoolean">
      <eParameters name="feature" eType="#//EStructuralFeature"/>
    </eOperations>
    <eOperations name="getDeclarationGroup" eType="#//DeclarationGroup">
      <eParameters name="reference" eType="#//EReference"/>
    </eOperations>
  ...
  <eClassifiers xsi:type="ecore:EDataType" name="EStructuralFeature" instanceClassName="org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EStructuralFeature"/>
  <eClassifiers xsi:type="ecore:EDataType" name="EAttribute" instanceClassName="org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EAttribute"/>
  <eClassifiers xsi:type="ecore:EDataType" name="EReference" instanceClassName="org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EReference"/>

Opening the ecore and looking at the properties of the method there are two options for the EStructuralFeature: the first as 'EStructuralFeature [org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EStructuralFeature]' while the second one is also marked as ETypedElement (see image below).
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As far as I understood, for some reasons on EMF 2.9 the model importer fails to reference the correct classes from Ecore.ecore model and hence adds them to my model stuff.

I could not find any documentation about changes to EMF's Java Annotation introduced by EMF 2.9 or a migration to EMF 2.9. I've also searched in these forums but I could not find anyone expeciencing similar issues so I guess the problem might be with the annotation I'm providing.
I have also to mention that I've already tried to replace the 
@model parameters = "EStructuralFeature"
annotation with the fully qualified name 
@model parameters = "org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EStructuralFeature"
but that didn't fix the problem.
I'm pretty pointless on how to fix this issue and any suggestion is welcome.
Thank you in advance

Diego
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Re: Annotated Java import issues with EMF 2.9 [message #1240943 is a reply to message #1236459] Fri, 07 February 2014 08:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ed Merks is currently offline Ed MerksFriend
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Registered: July 2009
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Diego,

I'm not aware of any changes in 2.9 that would break this. Please open
a bugzilla with a reproducible test case and I'll investigate.
Unfortunately the 2.9 maintenance stream is final now so any fixes might
need to be done for 2.10 instead...


On 27/01/2014 10:03 AM, Diego F wrote:
> Hi to all,
>
> after switching to EMF 2.9 I cannot correctly generate the Ecore/Genmodel anymore. The produced ecore contains EStructuralFeatures, EReferences and EAttribures as model items instead of referencing the EMF's ecore types.
>
> To generate my model, I use the 'Annotated Java' model import option from the IDE.
>
> The following method:
>
> import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EStructuralFeature;
> ..
> /**
> * @model parameters = "EStructuralFeature"
> */
> public boolean isDeclarationGroup(EStructuralFeature feature);
>
> was imported into the model's ecore as follows until EMF 2.8
>
> <eOperations name="isDeclarationGroup" eType="ecore:EDataType http://www.eclipse.org/emf/2002/Ecore#//EBoolean">
> <eParameters name="feature" eType="ecore:EClass platform:/plugin/org.eclipse.emf.ecore/model/Ecore.ecore#//EStructuralFeature"/>
> </eOperations>
> <eOperations name="getDeclarationGroup" eType="#//DeclarationGroup">
> <eParameters name="reference" eType="ecore:EClass platform:/plugin/org.eclipse.emf.ecore/model/Ecore.ecore#//EReference"/>
> </eOperations>
>
> but since EMF 2.9 produces
>
> <eOperations name="isDeclarationGroup" eType="ecore:EDataType http://www.eclipse.org/emf/2002/Ecore#//EBoolean">
> <eParameters name="feature" eType="#//EStructuralFeature"/>
> </eOperations>
> <eOperations name="getDeclarationGroup" eType="#//DeclarationGroup">
> <eParameters name="reference" eType="#//EReference"/>
> </eOperations>
> ...
> <eClassifiers xsi:type="ecore:EDataType" name="EStructuralFeature" instanceClassName="org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EStructuralFeature"/>
> <eClassifiers xsi:type="ecore:EDataType" name="EAttribute" instanceClassName="org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EAttribute"/>
> <eClassifiers xsi:type="ecore:EDataType" name="EReference" instanceClassName="org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EReference"/>
>
> Opening the ecore and looking at the properties of the method there are two options for the EStructuralFeature: the first as 'EStructuralFeature [org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EStructuralFeature]' while the second one is also marked as ETypedElement (see image below).
>
> As far as I understood, for some reasons on EMF 2.9 the model importer fails to reference the correct classes from Ecore.ecore model and hence adds them to my model stuff.
>
> I could not find any documentation about changes to EMF's Java Annotation introduced by EMF 2.9 or a migration to EMF 2.9. I've also searched in these forums but I could not find anyone expeciencing similar issues so I guess the problem might be with the annotation I'm providing.
> I have also to mention that I've already tried to replace the @model parameters = "EStructuralFeature" annotation with the fully qualified name @model parameters = "org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EStructuralFeature" but that didn't fix the problem.
> I'm pretty pointless on how to fix this issue and any suggestion is welcome.
> Thank you in advance
>
> Diego

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

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Re: Annotated Java import issues with EMF 2.9 [message #1240994 is a reply to message #1240943] Fri, 07 February 2014 10:10 Go to previous message
Diego F is currently offline Diego FFriend
Messages: 3
Registered: April 2012
Junior Member
Hi Ed,

after a few more tries I managed to get it back working by applying the following changes to the annotation:

1. Always fully qualifing the referenced ecore Objects when used as method parameters. So the following occurences
@model parameters = "EStructuralFeature"
@model parameters = "EReference"
@model parameters = "EAttribute"

have been replaced by 
@model parameters = "org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EStructuralFeature"
@model parameters = "org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EReference"
@model parameters = "org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EAttribute"


2. Adding the dataType annotation when ecore model objects are used as method return type.
The following case
/**
 * @model parameters = "String"
 */
public EStructuralFeature getFeature(String typeLabel);

has been updated with following annotation
/**
 * @model dataType="org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EStructuralFeature" parameters = "String"
 */
public EStructuralFeature getFeature(String typeLabel);


Apparently in the previous versions EMF where able to handle the missing dataType annotation and recognized the Ecore objects even when they weren't specified by their fully qualified name.

Diego

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