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Enterprise Architect => Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools => Topic started by: Polymorph on May 25, 2017, 08:13:22 pm

Title: Understanding OCL
Post by: Polymorph on May 25, 2017, 08:13:22 pm

I'm interesting in writing OCL expressions to help me apply my own model validation rules to my custom MDG Technology...

Can anyone recommend any good resources to help me get started? I have found a few generic tutorials on OCL on the web which explain the syntax. But I am not really sure how I actually use them in EA. Does anyone know of any tutorials that show how it can be used?

Thanks

Title: Re: Understanding OCL
Post by: qwerty on May 25, 2017, 10:08:24 pm

Actually you can't really use it in EA. EA does not compile/run OCL but roughly checks its syntax. There's almost nothing out there to really work with OCL, except for some academic research (I looked about one year ago or so).

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Title: Re: Understanding OCL
Post by: Polymorph on May 26, 2017, 12:11:37 am

So, if I want to add checks to my MDG that ensure that when I create a model element it has the correct types of relationship to other model elements (for example) how can I do it? Are we talking about scripts?

Title: Re: Understanding OCL
Post by: qwerty on May 26, 2017, 12:41:43 am

Likely. There is that build-in model validation stuff from EA (http://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/12.1/building_models/configuring_model_validation.html). I never used it but rather scripted the checks directly. OCL will not help here.

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