Exposed interface and transformation templates.

[Thomas_Arnbjerg]

A newbie question on transformation templates:

I'm playing a bit with transformation templates and would like to generate an interface (class) based on an exposed interface attached to a component in a component diagram.

The class should be placed in a generated package named after the component. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any property for the interface, which reveals which component the interface is attached to. Therefore I can't put the interface into the proper package in the transformation template.

Does anyone know, which attribute to use in this scenario?
- and does anyone know of some good sites with examples on custom transformations (in addition to the ones provided by Sparx Systems)?

[«Midnight»]

...and does anyone know of some good sites with examples on custom transformations (in addition to the ones provided by Sparx Systems)?

Try the EA Wiki and EA User Group, in that order. Open the top thread in the Automation section. (It is pinned, so is always at the top.)

Read the first post. At the top you'll find the address of the User Group. At the bottom - look way down, at the signature line - you will find directions to the Wiki.

David

[Eve]

I don't have example code, but you can do what you want by creating a package out of the component, then inside that list over all inner classes (which equates to all elements nested in the component).  Create the class out of your exposed interface.  The result should look something like the following.

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Package
{
 name="MyComponent"
 Class
 {
   name="MyExposedInterface"
 }
}

[Thomas_Arnbjerg]

Thank's for the answers. I'll look into the Wiki site and user group.

Regarding the package creation the example exactly illustrates my problem: Which attribute (if any) allows me to obtain the component name to assign to the package (i.e. "MyComponent")?. I can only find the attribute with the interface name (i.e. %className%)?

[Eve]

Let me give you a more concrete example about how this works.  Your class template will look something like this.

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%if elemType=="Component"%
Package
{
 name=%qt%%className%qt%
%list="InnerClass" @separator="\n" @indent="  "%
}
%else%
Class
{
 name=%qt%%className%qt%
}
%endIf

[Thomas_Arnbjerg]

Thank you. It works perfectly!