Hi,
I am quite lost here, so please bear with me trhough this rather long issue:
I'm trying to model a parameterised class in my PIM class diagram for my MDA process. The idea is, that during the C# transformation, it gets turned into an Arraylist. The type should be a datatype which I created ("ReceiptDesigns"), which itself will be transformed in to a struct.
So after code generation I would like to end up with an ArrayList filled with ReceiptDesign structs.
I am note quite sure how to do this.
I created a parameterised class simply called "List".
It has a parameter T of type class. How many objects it can contain is irrelevant (to the application, not to the model?).
Its attribute "theList" is of type T, with a multiplicity [0..*].
I addition, I created a class ReceiptDesignsList.
It is connected via a Dependency to the class "List", with the dependancy stereotype "bind" (how to I tell that dependancy that ReceiptDesignsList is the parameter?).
The "normal" class, which in the end should contain such a list is called "Receipt" and connected with a normal, directed 1:1 association to ReceiptDesignsList.
So it looks somehow like this:
Receipt--1------1-->ReceiptDesignsList- - - - <<bind>>- - - - >List[class T]
well after code generation I end up with two classes (Receipt, ReceiptDesignList), which looks pretty good, except that the attribute theList in ReceiptDesignList is of type "T" ?
I checked out this link
http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=suggestions;action=display;num=1050317385;start=4#4but I am not quite sure how far that is only for the "real" C++ templates, anyway I tried it and the result was a failure....
That the code gen produces a ArrayList is probably a matter of altering the transformation template, which is fine by me.
But I somehow have the feeling that the whole "construction" mentioned above is totally wrong.
Maybe EA can't create the "theList" attribute probably, maybe I jsut have to adjust the template, but maybe, I messed a couple of things up.
So any feedback on the discrebed above is much appreciated (and needed
)
And yes I know that I can easily create an ArrayList attribute in my PSM by hand, but this "project" I am doing is just a MDA-demo application (more: a snapshot of a previous developed app this time developed with MDA), so its a lot about model and code generation and the customization of transormation templates.
Any help is as always greatly appreciated!
