Author Topic: Copying stereotypes (Read 7084 times)

Martin Terreni · « **on:** January 07, 2014, 06:45:46 pm »

Is there a way to create a stereotype based no an existing one?
I would like to duplicate the table stereotype for other uses.

qwerty · « **Reply #1 on:** January 07, 2014, 08:30:32 pm »

You can export the table t_stereotypes and import it in the target repository.

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Martin Terreni · « **Reply #2 on:** January 07, 2014, 09:37:50 pm »

Or I could manipulate it.

Martin Terreni · « **Reply #3 on:** January 07, 2014, 11:16:01 pm »

It won't work. It seems the "Table" stereotype is dealt with hard codded in EA. When opening the table there was nothing special I could relay on to copy it and have my new stereotype be a clone of it.

qwerty · « **Reply #4 on:** January 08, 2014, 12:42:46 am »

How did you "open the table"?

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Martin Terreni · « **Reply #5 on:** January 08, 2014, 02:55:08 am »

Access

qwerty · « **Reply #6 on:** January 08, 2014, 08:28:46 am »

I don't know the Access client, honestly (though I had played with it in the past). But there must be a way to copy a table from one DB to another. Be it native or via some ex-/import mechanism. Definitely you can replace the contents of t_stereotypes in one DB with that of another. At least you can write a script in EA to do that.

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Martin Terreni · « **Reply #7 on:** January 08, 2014, 09:04:04 am »

I have developed many plug ins for EA a couple of years ago, I know how to do those things. The issue is that I wanted a stereotype with the same look and behavior as "table" stereotype. Not to copy stereotypes table (I guess I did a poor job explaining my self...)

KP · « **Reply #8 on:** January 08, 2014, 09:39:24 am »

Have your stereotype specialize an abstract stereotype named "EAUML::table". (You can only do it in a profile that is part of a technology)

qwerty · « **Reply #9 on:** January 08, 2014, 11:56:17 am »

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I have developed many plug ins for EA a couple of years ago, I know how to do those things. The issue is that I wanted a stereotype with the same look and behavior as "table" stereotype. Not to copy stereotypes table (I guess I did a poor job explaining my self...)

IIRC the <<table>> received some special treatment which is in the guts of EA. You probably can't mimic it. You need to use the "real" stuff.

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KP · « **Reply #10 on:** January 08, 2014, 03:22:55 pm »

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IIRC the <<table>> received some special treatment which is in the guts of EA. You probably can't mimic it. You need to use the "real" stuff.

Everywhere that EA asks "is this element a table?" it should check the generalizations of all the element's stereotypes, so if you do as I suggested above, it ought to work.

Martin Terreni · « **Reply #11 on:** January 08, 2014, 06:14:17 pm »

Thanks for the help!

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