Hi,
I was working very long time on implementing
C# plugin for generating custom communications diagrams. And it was working great until
version 12 appears
.
I have found that there's a significant change in internal
API (in ver.12) implementation, which causes
EA crash when I'm trying to Update() programatically instance of
Connector class.
After some investigation I have found that for some reason, some person decided that now it's impossible to create and Update()
Connector instance with type
'Collaboration' between:
-
'Actor' and
'Object' or even between two 'Object's
Of course it's possible to create that manually. I checked exported xml file and I have found that:
<UML:TaggedValue tag="ea_type" value="
Collaboration"/>
<UML:TaggedValue tag="direction" value="Source -> Destination"/>
.....
<UML:TaggedValue tag="ea_sourceType" value="
Actor"/>
<UML:TaggedValue tag="ea_targetType" value="
Object"/>
It worked perfectly in previous version 10 and 11.
Could someone can help me ?
Thank in advance.
Code pieces://simple connection between Actor(root of diagram) and first class 'Object'
EA.Connector connector = previous.m_diagramElement.Connectors.AddNew("", "Association");
connector.SupplierID = current.m_diagramElement.ElementID;
connector.Direction = "Source -> Destination";
//Manually you should
'Add Message from XX to YY" by selecting from previously created connector on diagram submenu (RMB)
//To achieve the same programatically I created message connector
EA.Connector message = previous.m_diagramElement.Connectors.AddNew(functionData.MethodName, "Collaboration");
message.SupplierID = current.m_diagramElement.ElementID;
message.Direction = "Source -> Destination";
connector.Update();
message.SupplierEnd.Ordering = 1;
message.ClientEnd.Aggregation = connector.ConnectorID;
message.ClientEnd.AllowDuplicates = true;
message.ClientEnd.Ordering = 1;
message.Update() <<--------------- Here is a crash
When I use try catch statement, the exception message is:
'Collaboration' is not legal for Actor --> Object' !!
Why it's possible to do it manually, I don't understand
Is it possible to set in C# code that I want to use Lib with version 10 or 11 ?
