Hi Amita,
thanks for looking at this. I'm a bit surprised, on digging a little way
in, that the enumeration Property is isMany==false. I'll dig a bit
further, but I had expected to be able to find the Property named
enumeration and get a list of entries.
Kelvin.
On 11/12/2007, Amita Vadhavkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I tried TUSCANY-1360 related to enumeration facet. Below is the summary of
> what was
> discussed so far and a few questions.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1) One way to do this is -
> public static List<String> getEnumerationFacet(Type type) {
> return ExtendedMetaData.INSTANCE.getEnumerationFacet((EDataType)type);
> }
>
> which works very straight forward and gives a list of enums.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 2) Another way is -
> Do type.getInstanceProperties() and find the Property called
> "enumeration".
>
> Where, getInstanceProperties() calls
> DataObjectUtil.getMetaObjectInstanceProperties(EModelElement metaObject)
> in which for the given metaObject its annotations and details of each
> annotations are traversed. Each
> Annotation Detail is mapped to EStringToStringMapEntryImpl entry like
> below
> -
>
> EStringToStringMapEntryImpl entry =
> (EStringToStringMapEntryImpl)iter.next(); //iter is Iterator over
> current
> Annotation's Details
> String propertyName = entry.getTypedKey();
>
> Property globalProperty = getGlobalProperty(hc, propertyURI,
> propertyName);
> if (globalProperty != null)
> {
> result.add(globalProperty);
> }
>
> Result is a UniqueEList which is returned at the end.
>
> Here, when entry.getTypedKey() is "enumeration", entry.getTypedValue()
> gives
> a String having space separated enums
>
> e.g. for
> <simpleType name="ExampleRating">
> <restriction base="string">
> <enumeration value=""/>
> <enumeration value="Good"/>
> <enumeration value="Bad"/>
> </restriction>
> </simpleType>
>
> it gives," Good Bad"
>
> As we see in Property globalProperty = getGlobalProperty(hc, propertyURI,
> propertyName); the TypedKey information is
> used when forming Property with name "enumeration", but the TypedValue
> information is not stored in the Property.
> Same thing will be applicable for other facets like MinLenght,
> MaxExclusive....
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Questions:
>
> Thus, the question I have is, in case of following 2), what will be the
> way
> to preserve the mapping (key-value)
> information available about facets from EMF in the formed Property? And
> what
> will be better approach for TUSCANY-1360
> and as such for any other facets?
>
> Regards,
> Amita
>
