Profile Woes

[fwoolz]

Hello All,

The behavior of <<redefines>> and <<extends>> in UML profiles is inconsistent. In some cases (e.g. connectors), EA 6.1 wouldn't carry attributes over as tagged values once the saved profile was imported into EA unless the connector metaclass was redefined (extend didn't work). In EA 6.5 Beta 1, it seems even redefinition doesn't work--attributes defined in the profile don't show up as tags when the imported profile element is placed in a diagram. Similar behavior was noted in 6.1 with events.

Cheers,

[«Midnight»]

I wonder if this could have anything to do with the new treatment of multiple stereotypes in 6.5...

[Eve]

Hi fwoolz,

What connector and element metaclasses are you trying to extend?

I tried both extending and redefining a class and generalization.  The redefined generalization didn't pick up the tags added to it while the extended one did.  I'll get this looked into. But have you seen it for just connectors or were there some elements too?

Edit: It does work if I drag the connector from the Resource View, but not from the profile folder in the toolbox.  Can you confirm this is the problem?

[Eve]

Hi again fwoolz,

6.5 Beta 2 fixes the problems that I encountered with profile connectors.  I hope they were the problems you werre encountering.