Code import - c# and collections

[ronnie]

By setting the collection classes I can make a simple 1 to many relationship between Company and Employee to use a collection class called EmployeeList - that is great.

But

When importing fresh source in to a model - the exact same code misses the link between the collection and the '1-many link'. An 'Association' is created from 'Company' to 'EmployeeList' - but the whole concept of the 'Aggregation' is missed!

Is there any way to make EA realise that I have a collection in these cases?

Ronnie

[Eve]

No, EA only creates simple associations the the actual attribute type when reverse engineering.

[michael.venema]

Perhaps you try using System.Collections.ArrayList as default collection class for 1 ..*-associations - you may set it up in Options -> C# -> Collection classes. Doing this round trip code generation and synchronisation works straight, and, to my opinion, it is a good idea to store the instances of a ..*-referenced class in an attribute of type ArrayList within the instances of the referencing class.

So long,

MV