Intermediary l. - how identify class inheritance?

[pocketom]

I simply want to find out if a class extends another class. If so I just want to get the name and stereotype of that base class. I want to do that from the "Class" transformation template.

I already tried it with some pieces of the "Connector" macro, in this way I can search for a Generalization element. But I also need to do some action if there is no such element found (root base class), I couldn't find anywhere how to have a return value for a macro (anyway I only can use it with the list command to iterate over all connection elements...). I already thought about adding tagged values to the class to "communicate" between the macros but thats really ugly isn't it... ?  :-?

[Makulik]

hi tom,

i didn't get exactly what you'll need, but if it's just to tell you "there's any base/parent class" you probably could use the %classHasParent% macro. i found that here:
http://www.sparxsystems.com/uml_tool_guide/sdk_for_enterprise_architect/fieldsubstitutionmacros.htm

listing the actual basclasses is done with a separate template afaik.

hth
g.

[pocketom]

Hi Günther,

thanx for the hint. In theory that should work, but only in theory... I just tried it again, if a class has a base class then the macros returns "T". If not, it returns "" (shouldn't it return "F"?). It also returns "" if a class implements an interface, something like... I need to see if that can be used to get around this.

Then I still need to read some basic attributes from the target class. If you click on a class in diagram view you also see some relationship details in the list view. I want to read "Target Stereotype" of a connection, but again here it seems that I have bad luck, there are only 5 destElem connector properties available:

...

• connectorDestElemAlias
• connectorDestElemAuthor (the most important of all, 110% useful) ::)
• connectorDestElemGUID
• connectorDestElemName
• connectorDestElemType

...
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The same is available analouge for SourceElems... There is really nothing to get the destElem's stereotype? (I thought everything in EA focuses on stereotypes?)  

I hope there is a possibillity to get the destElemStereotype by going over those GUID. But I absolutely don't know how to navigate to a desired element I have a GUID for.

How to realize something analouge to:
%getElem(elemGUID).classStereotype%

Or any other way to find out which kind of interface(by stereotype!) a class implements?

[Eve]

Actually, connectorDestElemStereotype is available.  Anything that is available classWhatever is available as connectorDestElemWhatever.