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[XCORE] How to define a non cross reference [message #1268446]

Mon, 10 March 2014 14:08

Simone Di Cola

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Registered: February 2014

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Hi all,
according to the code below, could you please tell me how (and if it possible to) refer to the array defined inside the class ComputationUnit from the class Service?

class ComputationUnit{
contains Method[1..*] methods
}

class Method{
String name
String signature
Object sourceCode
contains Parameter[1..*] parameters
}

class Service{
contains Comment comment
contains Parameter[1..*] parameters
contains Contract[0..*] contracts
refers Method[] methods //How can I refer to the array defined inside the ComputationUnit class?
}

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Re: [XCORE] How to define a non cross reference [message #1268566 is a reply to message #1268446]

Mon, 10 March 2014 17:24

Ed Merks

Messages: 33140
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Simone,

This is again a question of navigation and with only snippets of the
model, it's not clear how to answer...

On 10/03/2014 3:08 PM, Simone Di Cola wrote:
> Hi all,
> according to the code below, could you please tell me how (and if it
> possible to) refer to the array defined inside the class
> ComputationUnit from the class Service?
>
> class ComputationUnit{
> contains Method[1..*] methods }
>
> class Method{
> String name
> String signature
> Object sourceCode
> contains Parameter[1..*] parameters
> }
>
> class Service{
> contains Comment comment
> contains Parameter[1..*] parameters
> contains Contract[0..*] contracts
> refers Method[] methods //How can I refer to the array defined
> inside the ComputationUnit class?
> }

Ed Merks
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Re: [XCORE] How to define a non cross reference [message #1268579 is a reply to message #1268566]

Mon, 10 March 2014 17:45

Simone Di Cola

Messages: 60
Registered: February 2014

Member

Thanks ED for your answer. Following your advice in my previous topic, I've come up with this implementation:

class ComputationUnit{
contains Method[1..*] methods
op Method getMethod(String methodSignature) {
for (Method method : methods) {
if(method.signature == methodSignature) return method
}
return null
}
}

class Method{
String signature
String sourceCode
contains Parameter[1..*] parameters
}

class MethodReference{
contains Method methodReference
}

class Service{
contains MethodReference[1..*] methodReferences
contains Comment comment
contains Parameter[1..*] parameters
contains Contract[0..*] contracts
}

So now I can assign a reference of a Method to a service by doing something like this:

Service s1 = factory.createService();
Method m1 = factory.createMethod();
MethodReference mr = factory.createMethodReference();

m1.setSignature("void increment ( int m, int &n )");
mr.setMethodReference(m1);
s1.getMethodReferences().add(mr);

Do you know a better way to do it?

Thanks
Simone

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Re: [XCORE] How to define a non cross reference [message #1268595 is a reply to message #1268579]

Mon, 10 March 2014 18:13

Ed Merks

Messages: 33140
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Simone,

Comments below.

On 10/03/2014 6:45 PM, Simone Di Cola wrote:
> Thanks ED for your answer. Following your advice in my previous topic,
> I've come up with this implementation:
>
> class ComputationUnit{
> contains Method[1..*] methods
> op Method getMethod(String methodSignature) {
> for (Method method : methods) {
> if(method.signature == methodSignature) return method
That seems reasonable, but you'll want to be pretty sure that signatures
such as void increment ( int m, int &n ) use a consistent whitespace
convention if you're going to use String equality... Note too that
using Xbase's closures you can express this more elegantly... The Xtend
documentation shows some of these nice capabilities...
> }
> return null
> }
> }
>
> class Method{
> String signature
> String sourceCode
> contains Parameter[1..*] parameters
> }
>
>
> class MethodReference{
> contains Method methodReference
> }
>
> class Service{
> contains MethodReference[1..*] methodReferences
> contains Comment comment
> contains Parameter[1..*] parameters
> contains Contract[0..*] contracts
> }
>
> So now I can assign a reference of a Method to a service by doing
> something like this:
> Service s1 = factory.createService();
> Method m1 = factory.createMethod();
> MethodReference mr = factory.createMethodReference();
>
> m1.setSignature("void increment ( int m, int &n )");
> mr.setMethodReference(m1);
> s1.getMethodReferences().add(mr);
>
> Do you know a better way to do it?
> Thanks
> Simone
>
>
>
>

Ed Merks
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Re: [XCORE] How to define a non cross reference [message #1272391 is a reply to message #1268595]

Mon, 17 March 2014 20:20

Simone Di Cola

Messages: 60
Registered: February 2014

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Hi Ed,
how can I define a not contained EReference? I mean, how can I define a reference without using the contains keyword? (if it is possible of course)

Simone

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Re: [XCORE] How to define a non cross reference [message #1272399 is a reply to message #1272391]

Mon, 17 March 2014 20:40

Ed Merks

Messages: 33140
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Simone,

Keep in mind that context completion proposals will show you the
keywords (though very far down in the list). The "refers" keyword is
used to specify cross references.

On 17/03/2014 1:20 PM, Simone Di Cola wrote:
> Hi Ed,
> how can I define a not contained EReference? I mean, how can I define
> a reference without using the contains keyword? (if it is possible of
> course)
> Simone

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

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