BUG?: Duplicate attribute GUIDs on import

[Paolo F Cantoni]

I'm pretty sure this is a bug but welcome feedback...

If you import a package that you already have in your model into another location, stripping GUIDs, the GUIDs for attributes don't appear to get stripped.

The intention is to duplicate a hierarchy in another place.  However, if you run a Tools|Data Management|Project Integrity Check [Shift+F9], you get a pile of duplicate GUIDs for the attributes.  Can anyone else confirm this?

TIA,
Paolo

[«Midnight»]

Hi Paolo,

I've just run an export-import round trip of a package with structural diagrams, including interfaces and at least one attribute (I was in a hurry). The project integrity check did not indicate duplicate GUID values. I verified that this check was enabled.

The settings were: EA build 800, XMI 1.3 round trip enabled, diagrams included.

David

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Hi Paolo,

I've just run an export-import round trip of a package with structural diagrams, including interfaces and at least one attribute (I was in a hurry). The project integrity check did not indicate duplicate GUID values. I verified that this check was enabled.

The settings were: EA build 800, XMI 1.3 round trip enabled, diagrams included.

David

We're using XMI 2.1...

I'll give it another go tomorrow...

Thanks David.

Paolo

[«Midnight»]

I repeated the same cycle, after first removing the newly imported package from the last time. That is, I performed the cycle again on the original model, using the same package as before.

This time I had XMI 2.1 selected, with round trip enabled and diagrams included. The cycle went as expected.

Once again, no problems were detected by the Project Integrity Check, with all options checked. That is, all except 2.0 migration of course, which I also checked. No problems detected at all.

HTH, David

[VK]

Hello Paolo,

EA does duplicate the GUID of attributes upon importing them from an XMI 2.1 file. We will have this issue fixed for Build 802.

Cheers.

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Hello Paolo,

EA does duplicate the GUID of attributes upon importing them from an XMI 2.1 file. We will have this issue fixed for Build 802.

Cheers.

Thanks for that, Vimal...  Had me worried my old eyes were deceiving me...  

Paolo

PS: In the meantime, can we assume that following the import we should immediately run the verifier and let it fix the duplicate GUIDs?  Which one of the two does it change - the new one  (good) or the original (very bad) or even indeterminate (worst!)?

[VK]

Hello Paolo,

The Integrity Check module will change the GUIDs of the  new attributes only. So, you can safely run the Integrity Checker.
And, I have updated Build 801 (not Build 802 as I had specified earlier) with the fix - it will be coming out in a couple of days time.

Cheers.

[«Midnight»]

I wonder why I did not see this with 800. Perhaps the sample I used was too small...