C# class, method and member variable attributes

[d_p_robinson]

C# Reverse engineering does not seem to generate any model artifacts for C# class, method and member variable attributes ([] notation).

For example, code:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using NUnit.Framework;

namespace TddSample
{
   [TestFixture]
   public class CalculatorTests
   {
       [Test]
       public void testAddZeroToZero ()
       {
           // Code for tests
       }
   }
}

'Test' and 'TestFixture' do not appear in the model. I have also imported the NUnit.Framework binary (exposes TestAttribute and TestFixtureAttribute classes) and this has no effect either.

[Eve]

Have a look at the C# modeling conventions in the help.  (http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/EAUserGuide/index.html?csharp_conventions.htm)

They are in tagged values.

[d_p_robinson]

I've checked the tagged values in the C# conventions page and these don't apply to C# attributes. In the example in my post a C# '[]' attribute can be applied to a class, interface, property, method or member variable. An attribute is an instance of a class attached as metadata to the item to which it refers. The C# page refers to modifiers such as const, delegate etc that are part of the C# language. C# attributes are user-defined extensions. I'm not sure how these would be expressed in EA as they're not really stereotype - for example they can take parameters.

[«Midnight»]

Note that this also applies to VB.Net. Attributes can be applied to the same range of elements, and can take parameters. The concept is common across many .Net compilers.

[Eve]

I've checked the tagged values in the C# conventions page and these don't apply to C# attributes. In the example in my post a C# '[]' attribute can be applied to a class, interface, property, method or member variable.

And as I said, in EA they are stored in tagged values.

On any class, interface, attribute, operation or parameter you can add a tagged value "Attribute" = "[TestFixture]" (or whatever your attributes are) and EA will generate them to code.

[d_p_robinson]

Thanks. I hadn't spotted the Tagged Values window, I was only looking in the Class and Methods dialog boxes from where there is no reference to tagged values and in the class diagram where there is no indication of a tagged value being attached.