createing profiled packages via add-in

[trickster60]

Hi,

I am having trouble creating a a package profile I have defined through an add. In the packages.AddNew(...) method. In the type parameter I have tried a couple of things including the metatype name I defined in the profile but I keep getting a generic package being created. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

[qwerty]

It seems that in order to set the stereotype of a package you need to:

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p = Package.Addnew ("name", "");
p.Update;
p.Element.Stereotype = "profile";
p.Update;(EA does not set the stereotype from p.Stereotype. It's a r/o value :-/

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[trickster60]

of course!!! why didnt I think of that.  

Thanks

[qwerty]

I didn't think of that myself, despite the fact that I work with EA since 2003 (IIRC). As I wrote in my Scripting book packages are a sort of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Some of the attributes in the package and the related element are mirrored so you can write/change them in both. But others (like the stereotype) can only be altered in the element part. Especially when creating a package one would expect to be able to change the stereotype in the package element. Nada! I'd call this a bug, but OTOH it's EAUI. So we live with that...

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