specify a method to return a pointer?

[Duc-bert]

Hi All,

how do I specify a method in my class diagram to return a pointer?

int* getInteger();

Thanks

[ronnie]

It seems the only way to do this is to use the type 'int*' instead of one of the standard ones.

This is what EA does when it imports from source anyway.

Interestingly, attributes have a containment setting that, if set to by reference, generates the '*'.

Maybe there needs to be a 'by reference' parameter passing and return type setting. How this would work in other languages might be interesting.

I guess in this case the type 'int*' should maybe considered a type on it's own. MS certainly think like this and create types like PSTR and PINT etc.

Ronnie

[Duc-bert]

Thanks ronnie. But this work-around will eliminate the auto update capability of EA. For example,

class MyClass {
...
};

class Creator {

MyClass* createMyClass();

};

anytime I make a modification to MyClass class,  class Create will not see the change. Take this case, I change MyClass name to YourClass name. Now everywhere that I has MyClass*, I have to change it to YourClass*.

This maybe a candiate for future enhancement to EA.
Thanks