Switch/Case modeling in EA UML

[HansChandra]

Hello,
Does anyone have an example of a switch-case UML implementation in te EA context?  I could not find one in the documentation or online.  I hate to implement it as a series of if..else statements.

Thanks,
Hans.

[Geert Bellekens]

In a sequence diagram you can use an alt fragment.
What type of diagram are you trying to use?

Geert

[qwerty]

Hello,
Does anyone have an example of a switch-case UML implementation in te EA context?  I could not find one in the documentation or online.  I hate to implement it as a series of if..else statements.

Thanks,
Hans.

Both are just two syntax variants of the same semantic. Basically it boils down to a compare/jump.

q.

[HansChandra]

In a sequence diagram you can use an alt fragment.
What type of diagram are you trying to use?

Geert

Geert - I am using an activity diagram.  Thanks!

[HansChandra]

My expectation would be to see the switch /case construct in the generated code. Hope this claridfies my question a little more.

Thanks,
Hans.

[qwerty]

IIRC the code body is taken from the operation/behavior properties. And what is in there is up to you. I might be wrong as I'm not a code gen power user.

q.

[HansChandra]

I agree. I was wondering whether there is something that I could specify in the model to generate a switch/case construct ( C code) as opposed to a series of if/else statements.   I admit both end up doing the same thing once the compiler gets done with it.  I prefer switch/case in the particular code section I am modeling.

Thanks.
H.