Hi all, I was trying to get to a Classifier's package, which in the UML metamodel comes down to navigating the namespace<->ownedElements association. However, calling getNamespace() on a modelElement returns null, because of what looks like a bug to me:
in ModelElementFacadeLogicImpl, the shieldedElement is a UmlPackage (which is fine, because it should be). The facade which is constructed, is thus a UmlPackageFacade. However, then it is cast into a NamespaceFacade, which fails because the MagicDraw UML Metamodel from which the facades are generated, does not have a generalization relationship between namespaces and packages in any way. Why is there a deviation from the official UML metamodel here? Is this for reasons of convenience? In my opinion, one of two things should be done here: - connect namespace and package via generalizations - make sure the namespace<->ownedElements association is not navigable in the direction of namespace I found out that there is a getPackage() method on ModelElements which will fetch the package an element is in, but I feel that either getNamespace() should work too, or should be eliminated... Thanks, Hans
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