| Re: [henshin-user] NestedConditions |
Three things to note here:1. In theory I would have said yes. In practice, however, I don't observe a difference running a rule with the whole replication vs. replicating only the border element (see attached rules). Did I miss something?
2. I don't observe the partial mapping being the standard behavior. For me it usually maps the Whole LHS to the NAC, but:
3. There seems to be a flaw in the graphical editor where the order in which you create the forbid and preserve parts of a rule influences how many elements are replicated and mapped.
Preserve elements which are added to a rule after a NAC has been created (by changing the action of a node to forbid) will not be replicated to that NAC. If you want to add existing preserve nodes to a NAC a workaround can be to change the desired forbid nodes to preserve and back to forbid again. In the past, I already observed strange behavior in not being able to create edges between forbid and preserve nodes sometimes but didn't search for the reason.
Now that I know the problem, I will assign my Henshin-Bugfix-Student to it. No guarantees on how long this will take, though. ;)
Stefan On 19.12.2019 15:06, Zschaler, Steffen wrote:
Just to make sure I understand this correctly: * When only the border elements are replicated in the NAC (here: the :A node), the NAC looks like this: * B -> A (where A has a mapping from the LHS) *Wouldn’t that mean the rule can simply never be matched (because there would, by definition always be a B to be matched for the NAC)?Steffen Dr. rer. nat. Steffen Zschaler AHEA Senior Lecturer King's College London Department of Informatics Visiting Scientist The Francis Crick Institute Email szschaler@xxxxxxx Phone +44 (020) 7848 1513 WWW www.steffen-zschaler.de*From:*henshin-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx <henshin-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> *On Behalf Of *Daniel Strüber*Sent:* 19 December 2019 13:26 *To:* henshin-user@xxxxxxxxxxx *Subject:* Re: [henshin-user] NestedConditions Consider a rule (using the integrated syntax:) [forbid :B] ---> [preserve :A] <---- [preserve :B] <----- [create :C]When only the border elements are replicated in the NAC (here: the :A node), the NAC looks like this:B -> A (where A has a mapping from the LHS) When the full LHS is replicated, the NAC looks like this:B -> A <- B (where A, the right-hand B, and their common edge have mappings from the LHS)Using the first NAC, the forbid node can be matched to all :B objects from the input model, including one which was bound to the preserve :B node while matching the LHS.Using the second NAC, the forbid node cannot be matched to a :B object which was already bound by LHS :B node.Best regards, Daniel On 12/19/2019 2:15 PM, Zschaler, Steffen wrote: Thanks, Daniel. You seem to imply that there is a semantic difference between the three forms. Could you explain? Thanks, Steffen Dr. rer. nat. Steffen Zschaler AHEA Senior Lecturer King's College London Department of Informatics Visiting Scientist The Francis Crick Institute Email szschaler@xxxxxxx <mailto:szschaler@xxxxxxx> Phone +44 (020) 7848 1513 WWW www.steffen-zschaler.de <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=www.steffen-zschaler.de&data=01%7C01%7Csteffen.zschaler%40kcl.ac.uk%7C99f85e3038654d3b82a908d784870447%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=y2SptmLxRy1BM0ObiGboy5ycvkOot94wgPDpYnZqldY%3D&reserved=0> *From:*henshin-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:henshin-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> <henshin-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> <mailto:henshin-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> *On Behalf Of *Daniel Strüber *Sent:* 19 December 2019 13:13 *To:* henshin-user@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:henshin-user@xxxxxxxxxxx> *Subject:* Re: [henshin-user] NestedConditions Hi Steffen, Henshin allows the morphism between the host graph and the application condition graph to be a partial morphism. Consequently, all three cases you mention (only nodes replicated, only border nodes replicated, full LHS replicated) would specify different application conditions for the same rule. While this design decision has its awkward sides (especially the representation in the graphical editor), I encountered some situations before where it was desirable, as it allowed to precisely specify an intended behavior. I'm actually surprised by the fact that the graphical editor defaults to the "node only" case -- I would have expected "full LHS replicated" as the default. However, in most cases, the resulting behavior will be identical. The only exceptions seem to arise in the (exceptionally rare) case where there are multiple references of the same type between the same two objects. Best regards, Daniel On 12/19/2019 11:32 AM, Zschaler, Steffen wrote: Hi, A rather technical question about *NestedCondition*s and their /representation/ in a .henshin file. Do tell me to take this somewhere else if that would be more appropriate. I understand the theory behind application conditions: the condition is a graph and a morphism into this graph from a host graph. That is represented in Henshin by the ability to add a “formula” to a graph, where this formula can be a *NestedCondition*, which itself again contains a graph and a set of mapping. The containing graph is the host graph, the graph in the *NestedCondition* is the application-condition graph, and the mappings capture the morphism. So far so clear. Except that’s not how it seems to work in practice: if you look at the attached file, produced by the standard graphical editor, you will see that only the /nodes/ from the host graph have been replicated in the application-condition, but the /edges/ haven’t. In other examples, I have seen cases where only the border nodes had been replicated. In any case, the mappings clearly aren’t a morphism as they do not fully cover the host graph. Are all of these formats indeed acceptable? If so, is there a regularised format that is used inside Henshin and, if so, can this be reused outside of Henshin? Alternatively, are there minimum expectations on how an application condition should be encoded in a .henshin file? Is any of this documented anywhere? Should it be? Thanks, Steffen Dr. rer. nat. 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