Instantiating association properties

[kodo65]

Hi!

I have a two classes let's call them parent and child. There's a one-to-many relationship between them. Now I have a public property of the parent, child, which denotes that it is of type Dictionary<int, child> (C#) but the declaration fails to include ' = new Dictionary<int, child>'. There must be a possibility to override the property declarations for these kind of associations so the property gets instantiated but I haven't found it.

Embarassing:-)

I'd appreciate if anybody could point me in the right direction...

Thanks!

[Geert Bellekens]

Have you tried the "Initial Value" field?

Geert

[kodo65]

Hi Geert!

I've tried the following:

On the association, source side ("many side"), I've added a qualifier of type "Child" with an initial value of "new Dictionary<int, child>". When generating code nothing happens - the same "public Dictionary<int,  child> children;" shows up...

I'm not sure if this was what you wanted me to try?

Cheers

[Geert Bellekens]

I was thinking about the initial value of an attribute.

Geert

[kodo65]

Good suggestion. Thanks!