Where is the EA.Attribute property setting?

[Rogier van Stapele]

Where can I find the EA.Attribute "property" setting?

In the attribute's "Modify property implementation" dialog an attribute can be set as property and creating 2 methods at the same time. After this i can't find any change in the attribute. Where is it stored?

[Geert Bellekens]

the only thing I could find is the GenOption.

Geert

[qwerty]

They are stored in t_xref once you set a value. E.g. for an Action the kind property results in an entry

name=CustomProperties
type=element property
description=@PROP=@NAME=kind@ENDNAME;@TYPE=ActionKind@ENDTYPE;@VALU=AcceptCall@ENDVALU;@PRMT=@ENDPRMT;@ENDPROP

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[Rogier van Stapele]

Thanks qwerty,

I believe you use direct sql access on t_xref.
Do you know how to access this field through the automation COM interface?

[qwerty]

IIRC it's Element.CustomProperties and (also IIRC) I had issues to use them from the API (I'm anyway using the DB more often directly in such cases). You might give it a first try though before tinkering with t_xref.

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[Rogier van Stapele]

I tried it but it is not in the custom properties.

Any suggestions? As far as I can see the class "property" storage is totally undocumented. Strange though because properties, setters and getters are an important part of OO design.

[qwerty]

Ah. You mean <<property>> attributes? The are just stereotyped attributes. Thought you were talking about the Advanced/Properties.

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