Project.ImportDirectory - locking/security enabled

[jeanfrancois]

HI

When I automate reverse engineering through "ImportDirectory" and my model is setup with security where the option toggled that packages must be locked for it to be edited, the ImportDirectory does not work for me.

It shows the progress window with the message
"Skipping Parent Locked Package mypackagename"

Does EA lock this with some EA default user behind the scenes so that I cannot use ImportDirectory as one of my own users set up for the model? I don't know how to get around this?

Any have a problem with this? (EA 8.0, 856)

Jean

[Geert Bellekens]

Jean,

Have you tried to lock the package(s) in your program/script?

Geert

[jeanfrancois]

Hi Geert

I cannot lock them since I call ImportDirectory and set the option "Create Package Per Directory" so it creates the packages automatically as it goes along reverse engineering.

But I've managed to get it working for some cases, just in one it still doesn't work for me. In those cases it worked I find that EA locked the packages automatically for me (when I get into EA the resulting imported packages and classes are all blue '!'s).

I'll try to see why it cannot do it for the other case. It stops at the very first package it creates and tells me "Skipping Parent Locked Package bla" where bla is that package created.

I have tried locking the parent package too (the one in which I am reverse engineering), but with no luck.

Jean

[Geert Bellekens]

Have you noticed a difference between the "importDirectory" done via the user interface and the same function using the API?
In that case I would definitely report it as a bug.

Geert

[jeanfrancois]

Hi Geert

Well it works now when I lock the parent package. Argh, stupidy on my side again. The reason it didn't work before because if the imported folders already exist I didn't lock them as well.

Sorry  

[Geert Bellekens]

No worries, happy you got it working.

Geert

[jeanfrancois]

Thanks.

Is there a way to turn locking/security on and off? (IsSecurityEnabled) and then turn it on again?

[Geert Bellekens]

I don't think so (unless you edit the database directly)

Geert