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General Board / Are namespaces reverse engineered in EA?

« on: March 11, 2026, 07:37:58 pm »

For a C++ project, it does not seem that namespaces are reverse engineered into packages in EA. Does anyone know how to get this kind of behavior to work? The following for example should reverse engineer into a nested package structure in the Project view of EA:

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///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

//  TClass.hpp
//  Implementation of the Class ATemplateClass
//  Created on:      11-Mar-2026 09:33:56
//  Original author:
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

#if !defined(EA_E0A10386_AEB5_43dc_AEB9_7ECCE5611AE5__INCLUDED_)
#define EA_E0A10386_AEB5_43dc_AEB9_7ECCE5611AE5__INCLUDED_

namespace Package1
{
    namespace Package1
    {
        class Class1
        {

        public:
            Class1();
            virtual ~Class1();

        };

    }

    template<int T = 3>
    class ATemplateClass
    {

    public:
        ATemplateClass(){

        }
        virtual ~ATemplateClass(){

        }

    };

}

namespace Package2
{
    class cAB
    {

    public:
        cAB();
        virtual ~cAB();

        void foo();

    private:
        int x;

    };

}
#endif // !defined(EA_E0A10386_AEB5_43dc_AEB9_7ECCE5611AE5__INCLUDED_)


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General Board / How to generate C++ code that does not append namespaces to C typedefs

« on: March 06, 2026, 09:36:16 pm »

I have a model with a C typedef defined (class with typedef stereotype). When a C++ references this typedef, and I generate the C++ code, the resulting code adds a namespace to the typedef. Of course, being a C header file, there is no concept of a namespace, but C++ does have namespaces and wants to treat that typedef as a if it were located within a namespace.

Here is the resulting C++ code snippet:

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private:
   Platform_Types::uint32 lux_value;
   Std_Types::Std_ReturnType status;

The Platform_Types and Std_Types however are supposed to be just the header files (and they are generated properly and have those typedefs. It's just that the C++ code is adding namespaces to it.

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General Board / Re: Enterprise Architect 15.1 not generating headers (.h) for C

« on: March 06, 2026, 07:47:22 pm »

Have you checked the language field under Project in the properties section to make sure it is set to C?

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General Board / EA maps an enum class in C++ to GML::Enumeration

« on: February 21, 2026, 02:46:33 am »

In a C++ file, add the following declaration:

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enum class TargetAddressType2 : std::uint8_t
{
A = 2,
B = 4
};
Then import the source file into EA. Notice that in the General section of the Element Properties, the stereotype is set to GML::Enumeration. Is anyone else getting that? Why would EA reverse engineer it like that? I had expected something like enumeration as a stereotype.

I am using EA version 17.1.1714.

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General Board / Re: C code generation and typedef

« on: February 21, 2026, 12:21:33 am »

I modeled this one exactly how you have it shown and was able to forward-generate the C++ code. How did you create the generalization arrow from Enumeration_t to Enumeration1 however?

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General Board / How do I add multiple entry actions to a state?

« on: January 24, 2025, 03:28:45 am »

I am trying to add several entry actions to a state, but it seems that I can only enter one. The same goes for the /do and /exit states.

I have version 16.1.1627 Enterprise Architect (Ultimate Edition)

The Operations F10 menu just brings up the options for the currently selected operation, but nothing like a "add operation" or something similiar.

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General Board / Re: Merry Holidays to all!

« on: January 09, 2025, 12:10:41 am »

Merry Christmas and a blessed new year to you too!

I'm surprised not more responded to this thread. 

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General Board / What so unique about EA "views"?

« on: December 06, 2024, 12:05:16 am »

I noticed that EA has this unique concept called Views as the top-level organizational folders. For example, if you try to create a package under the root Model, you get presented with view options such as "Simple", "Use Case", "Class", etc. The icon also looks different. After creating the view, only then can you insert packages. Now there is a workaround whereby one can simply move packages to the root Model node, but I want to know what this whole view concept is about.

I am thinking about creating views for the typical silos such as software team, systems team, hardware team, etc. I'm not sure that is what it is for however.

What benefits do I get from using views?

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General Board / How are people integrating EA into confluence?

« on: December 05, 2024, 09:35:47 pm »

So it looks like our organization uses confluence as a single source of truth. How are users integrating EA into their confluence sites? Are there low-cost options to doing this? Has anyone discovered creative ways to get the modeling benefits while working with Confluence in some way without using some add-on?

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General Board / How do you reference an enumeration in a trigger guard?

« on: December 03, 2024, 03:22:53 am »

For an activity diagram simulation, what is the proper notation for referencing an enumeration? Should it be:

"Enum1"

or

'Enum1'

or

Enum1

The EA documentation says that quotation marks are used for strings, but this is for an enumeration.

If I use Enum1, there is an error because it is not recognized. If I use ", then it treats it like a string. The ' also treats it like a string.

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General Board / Re: I cannot resize a port in a diagram

« on: December 03, 2024, 03:12:56 am »

That worked perfectly, thanks!

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General Board / I cannot resize a port in a diagram

« on: December 02, 2024, 09:56:18 pm »

I cannot resize a port in an internal block diagram for SysML. Is it even possible?

For example, I am trying to represent a port with a multiplicity of 4. I would like 4 different connections entering that port. I cannot resize it on the vertical however so that the lines are not all crowded in one spot.

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General Board / Question about EAs mapping for UML to C code

« on: November 29, 2024, 07:48:40 pm »

EA has a rather interesting mapping for c-code generation. According to the C options document, there is the following for example:

struct - UML class with <<struct>> stereotype
typedef struct - UML class with <<struct>> stereotype with TaggedValue C::typedef true

So when I went to conduct a training on this, while the model was clear and understood, a developer ended up modeling the typedef as a UML Data Type. I was about to disagree with that but, in reality what he modeled is correct because a UML DataType is simply a type that is differentiated by its values (Section 10.2.3.1 https://www.omg.org/spec/UML/2.5/PDF).

I'm not sure that is enough to go with one or the other. EA does not generate code for a UML Data type. EA will generate code for a class with a <<struct>> stereotype however.

Finally, we are not generating code from the model, but I do want to make sure that our intents are clear and that one does model a struct as a class, while the other goes with a data type, leading to varying modeling standards. Of course I will eventually create a team standard for us to use, but before I do that, I want to have this concept clear so that it is justifiable.

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General Board / Re: REST API in EA

« on: November 28, 2024, 06:27:28 pm »

I was thinking of something like a script of my own from the EA scripting facility whereby one iterates through some packages and publishes changes via REST to Jama for example. I know there is a plug in, but I was exploring the possibility of doing some regular updates in the Notes or publishing diagrams in png format.

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General Board / Re: Is EA not responding to support requests anymore?

« on: November 26, 2024, 07:31:06 pm »

At least twice so far. I even think my second request was by accident. So there might be a duplicate request out there. I have even a request from 5 years ago or so that never was resolved. There was just a mention of "it will be fixed in the next version".