I'll investigate when I get home from work.

Could we move this conversation to the dev list please and make this the
last one to cc users

Regards

Bob

On 4 April 2012 15:32, Mark Fortner <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've fixed the multiplicity issues and altered the GeneratorJava class to
> return Lists instead of Vectors.  However, I can't seem to get the
> generateVisibility method to give me the appropriate visibility.  Here's
> what's happening:
>
>    - When I debug into the method I find that a call
>    to Model.getFacade().isPublic(obj) is always returning true.  It is being
>    passed an AssociationEndImpl object, and when you get its visibility it
>    returns Public.  When I try to inspect the AssociationEnd all I get are a
>    ton of MOF IDs, and maps and lots of useless crap but no attribute called
>    visibility that I can inspect.
>
>    - When I make a call to getName on the Association, it returns null
>    for both association ends, despite the fact that one of the association
>    ends is named.
>
> My thought is that the Property panel is setting some other attribute of
> the Association End to private.  But I can't really confirm this.  Does
> anyone have any suggestions for how to proceed further?
>
> Mark
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Mark Fortner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I've created an issue for this:
>> http://argouml.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6421
>>
>> If I get a chance this weekend, I'll take a look at the existing code for
>> this.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Mark Fortner <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks, Tom!
>>>
>>> I knew there had to be some UML-specific thing that I needed to do to
>>> get the employeeList in the right place.
>>>
>>> As for generating the appropriate type, (ArrayLists vs Vectors), my
>>> thought was that I'd simply generate:
>>>
>>> List<Employee> employeeList;
>>>
>>>
>>> And let the user create the right-side of declaration if they want after
>>> the code has been generated.
>>>
>>> Is there currently a preference that allows the user to specify what
>>> version of Java they want to use? Perhaps using the Java profile? Since
>>> Oracle doesn't support 1.4 anymore, is there a reason that we would need to
>>> support the non-generic list?
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Mark Fortner <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > Hi Linus,
>>>> > I created the association again, clicked on the link in the
>>>> Properties panel
>>>> > to go to the Department association end, and then clicked Private.
>>>>  When I
>>>> > looked at the source tab, it still showed up as public.  Oddly
>>>> enough, on
>>>> > the diagram we see "-employeeList" indicating that the association
>>>> end is
>>>> > private.
>>>>
>>>> I've lost track of the ends now, but my impression from the original
>>>> message was that you were changing the visibility on the wrong
>>>> association end.  Remember that it's the *far* end that you need to
>>>> change for things like visibility and navigability.
>>>>
>>>> > What's also odd is the fact that Employee also ends up with a public
>>>> Vector
>>>> > employeeList declaration.
>>>>
>>>> Is the association navigable in both directions? (the default)  If so,
>>>> you'll get data structures on both ends to allow you to get to the
>>>> other end.  Set isNavigable to false on the end opposite where you
>>>> want the data structure to disappear from.
>>>>
>>>> > I suspect changing Vectors into generified Lists, and fixing the
>>>> > Multiplicity=1 issue are probably trivial changes and I'll look into
>>>> that
>>>> > within the next few days.
>>>>
>>>> Support for UML Templates and Java generics is only partially
>>>> implemented.  You could probably special case the code generation for
>>>> this specific use case without generics support, but you might need to
>>>> take backward compatibility into account (e.g. provide a preference
>>>> setting for what type to generate).
>>>>
>>>> Note also that ArrayList and Vector have slightly different semantics,
>>>> particularly vis a vis synchronization, so the two types aren't
>>>> completely interchangeable.
>>>>
>>>> Tom
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> http://argouml.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=449&dsMessageId=2941640
>>>>
>>>> To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail: [
>>>> [email protected]].
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>

------------------------------------------------------
http://argouml.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=450&dsMessageId=2944619

To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail: 
[[email protected]].
To be allowed to post to the list contact the mailing list moderator, email: 
[[email protected]]

Reply via email to