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phantom nodes [message #236102]

Mon, 13 July 2009 13:55

Gary

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Registered: July 2009

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Hi, I have previously used phantom nodes to get a containment relationship
to display as a normal link on the diagram canvas.
I was just wondering wether the new version of GMF had a better solution
for this issue or if this is still the best way to deal with such a
requirment?

Thanks in advance,
Gary

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Re: phantom nodes [message #236476 is a reply to message #236102]

Mon, 20 July 2009 11:50

Alexander Shatalin

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Hello Gary,

Nothing as changed there.
BTW, what's wring with phantom nodes?

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Re: phantom nodes [message #236873 is a reply to message #236476]

Mon, 20 July 2009 13:34

Gary

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Registered: July 2009

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Hi Alex,
Thanks for your reply!

In answer to your question:
It seams to me that phantom nodes ignore the underlaying model (ecore
model) and creates a relationship between the node and the canvas (even if
the node has no relationship to the canvas).
This is fine for visual representation of data, but causes the XML stored
by the diagram to be incorrect.
So if you are reusing the XML you are required to remove the relationship
between the phantom node and the canvas and add the correct containment
relationship.

This just seams a long (and wrong) way of sipmly displaying a containment
relationship as a link (rather than a node in a container).

I may be misunderstanding the way that phantom nodes work, if I am an
explination would be greatfuly appreciated, however the above seams to be
true in the last project I worked on!

Thanks,
Gary

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Re: phantom nodes [message #236914 is a reply to message #236873]

Mon, 20 July 2009 14:11

Alexander Shatalin

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Registered: July 2009

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Hello Gary,

Phantom nodes without specified parent are stored in the root of domain model
resource now. This is probably what you can see and if you are using some
proprietary XML format for the domain model file phantoms without parent
element can break some constraints for this XML file.

As an option you can modify generated code to store phantom elements in a
diagram resource instead. This can probably help.

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Re: phantom nodes [message #236937 is a reply to message #236914]

Mon, 20 July 2009 14:22

Gary

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Ok, I will take a look into that!
Thanks for the info Alex

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Re: phantom nodes [message #236977 is a reply to message #236937]

Mon, 20 July 2009 19:40

RefuX Zanzeebarr

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Registered: July 2009

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Gary wrote:
> Ok, I will take a look into that!
> Thanks for the info Alex
>

Gary, I'd appreciate a follow up, once you figure out how to do that. It
seems a lot cleaner to store the phantom elements in the diagram resource.

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Re: phantom nodes [message #237059 is a reply to message #236977]

Tue, 21 July 2009 10:19

Alexander Shatalin

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Hello RefuX,

> It seems a lot cleaner to store the phantom elements in the diagram
> resource.
You can file bugzilla for it - we can introduce corresponding option into
..gmfgen model.

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Re: phantom nodes [message #237143 is a reply to message #237059]

Tue, 21 July 2009 14:40

RefuX Zanzeebarr

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Alex Shatalin wrote:
> Hello RefuX,
>
>> It seems a lot cleaner to store the phantom elements in the diagram
>> resource.
> You can file bugzilla for it - we can introduce corresponding option
> into .gmfgen model.
>
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> Alex Shatalin
>
>
>

Done: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=284135

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