Determination "is type of"

[xhanness]

Hi,

I am writing a MDA trasnformation and I wonder, if there is possibility to find out, if a class is a subtype of a superclass.
I have a quite large hierarchy of classes so I can not simply test, if a current class has connector of Genereliazation type to any its connected  classes.

thanks for any hints

[Geert Bellekens]

Element.BaseClasses should give you a list of all the superclasses.
So if the superclass is in the list, the element is a subclass.

[xhanness]

thanks for the answer. But can I also make the test when I use the macro - language? It is easy to test in Java or C#, but is it possible to do it with macros? If u can provide me some example, I would be really glad. thanks

[xhanness]

well, I will answer my question. There exists a way, how to use all API functions from macro language. For this reason there is a macro EXEC_ADD_IN. It can execute a public method from your plugin.

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$a="a"
  $b="b"
  $result = %EXEC_ADD_IN("XGuiLayoutPlg","xxxY",$a, $b)%

and corresponding c# code goes here

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public object xxxY(EA.Repository aRepository, object aParameters)
{
  string[] parameters = (string[]) aParameters;
  return parameters[0] + "_" + parameters[1];
}

xhannes