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[Xcore] Basic Question [message #1433836]

Mon, 29 September 2014 09:54

João Bastos

Messages: 9
Registered: September 2014

Junior Member

Hi again,

Sorry again for the type of questions.
Answer only if you have the time and patience!

I have the following:

class Window
{
String color
}

And I would like to define sub-classes with pre-defined default values.
Is this possible?

I tried doing it in several ways, like bellow.
But either it says the classifier is missing, or if I repeat the attribute it obviously says they cannot have the same name.

class BlackWindow extends Window
{
color = "black"
}

Thank you in advance,
João Bastos

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Re: [Xcore] Basic Question [message #1433903 is a reply to message #1433836]

Mon, 29 September 2014 11:40

Ed Merks

Messages: 33141
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

João,

Comments below.

On 29/09/2014 11:54 AM, João Bastos wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Sorry again for the type of questions.
> Answer only if you have the time and patience!
>
> I have the following:
>
> class Window
> {
> String color
> }
>
> And I would like to define sub-classes with pre-defined default values.
> Is this possible?
No, it's not possible in Ecore so therefore it's not possible in Xcore.
>
> I tried doing it in several ways, like bellow.
> But either it says the classifier is missing, or if I repeat the
> attribute it obviously says they cannot have the same name.
>
> class BlackWindow extends Window
> {
> color = "black"
> }
>
> Thank you in advance,
> João Bastos

Ed Merks
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Re: [Xcore] Basic Question [message #1437724 is a reply to message #1433836]

Sat, 04 October 2014 22:56

Hallvard Traetteberg

Messages: 673
Registered: July 2009
Location: Trondheim, Norway

Senior Member

João,

The way to do this is to make the subclasses define/implement the
operation getColor that returns the constant value if the color
attribute isn't already set.

Hallvard

On 29.09.14 11:54, João Bastos wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Sorry again for the type of questions.
> Answer only if you have the time and patience!
>
> I have the following:
>
> class Window
> {
> String color
> }
>
> And I would like to define sub-classes with pre-defined default values.
> Is this possible?
>
> I tried doing it in several ways, like bellow.
> But either it says the classifier is missing, or if I repeat the
> attribute it obviously says they cannot have the same name.
>
> class BlackWindow extends Window
> {
> color = "black"
> }
>
> Thank you in advance,
> João Bastos

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