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Creation Factory

Enterprise Architect supports the Creation Factory OSLC service, through which clients can create new Requirements via HTTP POST. To create a new Requirement, the client POSTs a representation of the Requirement in RDF format to the Creation Factory URL. If the POST is successful, the HTTP location header of the response will contain the URL of the created Requirement. An unsuccessful POST will generate an error response.

The Creation Factory URL has the format:

     http://<server>/<model_name>/oslc/cf/

Examples

These are some example representations of a Requirement in RDF format.

Example

RDF Representation

1

<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"

xmlns:oslc_rm="http://open-services.net/ns/rm#"

xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"

xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"

xmlns:ss="http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/">

<oslc_rm:requirement>

<dcterms:title>Requirement3</dcterms:title>

<dcterms:description>Requirement Notes

</dcterms:description>

<dcterms:creator>

<foaf:Person>

<foaf:name>User1</foaf:name>

</foaf:Person>

</dcterms:creator>

<ss:type>Functional</ss:type>

<ss:packageID>355</ss:packageID>

</oslc_rm:requirement>

</rdf:RDF>

Result Description

Creates a new Requirement with the specified name, notes, author and stereotype.

2

<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"

xmlns:oslc_rm="http://open-services.net/ns/rm#"

xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"

xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"

xmlns:ss="http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/">

<oslc_rm:requirement>

<dct:title>Requirement4</dct:title>

<ss:packageID>355</ss:packageID>

<ss:difficulty>High</ss:difficulty>

<ss:priority>High</ss:priority>

</oslc_rm:requirement>

</rdf:RDF>

Result Description

Creates a new Requirement with the specified name, difficulty and priority.

3

<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"

xmlns:oslc_rm="http://open-services.net/ns/rm#"

xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"

xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"

xmlns:ss="http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/">

<oslc_rm:requirement>

<dct:title>Requirement4</dct:title>

<ss:packageID>355</ss:packageID>

<ss:difficulty/>

</oslc_rm:requirement>

</rdf:RDF>

Result Description

Produces an error response, as the property 'difficult' has an invalid (empty) value.

Notes

  • This facility is available through the Corporate, Business and Software Engineering, Systems Engineering or Ultimate editions
  • The OSLC properties 'title' and 'packageID' of the Requirement are mandatory and must be supplied in the RDF representation
  • The value of the OSLC property 'packageID' should already exist in the model, so before creating a Requirement using Creation Factory, use the Query Capability URL to determine the existing values of 'packageID'
  • The OSLC properties 'identifier', 'created' and 'modified' of the Requirement are read-only and cannot be set using the Creation Factory service

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