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Discussion => Uml Process => Topic started by: Aditya on July 04, 2012, 12:52:10 am
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Hi All,
I am new to EA and I am using version 9.1.
I am doing two things
1) Importing data model of type .xmi into EA
2) I am also extending MDG technologies to provide me UML profiles.
The descrepancy occurs as some stereotypes in .xmi doesn't get updated in accordance to the actual data model. For eg - Some tagged values of a structure data type doesn't get updated in the model imported in EA. I get around this problem by manually editing the properties of that structure data type and then manually synchronizing the stereotype.
Now I have to do this for a lot of stereotypes. I want to find a way whereby I can do synchronization of all the stereotypes in one go in EA, so that they match with the actual data model.
Any suggestion would be welcomed, I am an intern and this is all new for me, so pardon me if something is not clear. Thank You
Regards,
Aditya
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There's a recent thread in the automation board. Search (button top left) for "tag sync" which should give you the relevant thread. IOW you can do what you want via automation.
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[edit:] I found the thread: http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1341263173 but it's obviously not at a solution
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Hi,
Thank You for the reply.
When I use method SyncTaggedValues it gives error
"Undefined is Null or not an object"
On importing MDG technology the profile name is SMM_Profile. But I am not sure, where can one look the profile name from ?
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Open the MDG with a text editor. In the second line you'll find the id of the profile.
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The MDG tech that I imported has name SMM_Profile and that is what is showing in the Toolbox. I created a diagram in the Digram Box in EA from SMM_Profile of type Enumeration and named enum.
So could you please tell me how to use SynchTaggedValues method.
I am doing
var test as EA.Element
test.SynchTaggedValues(SMM_Profile,enum);
its giving me that same null object error. What to do ? please help !
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As written in the other thread I pointed out above it seems there are some issues with this function.
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:o :(
Is there any other way, this can be done ?
I read somewhere that all stereotypes can be sychronized at once by using SQL update query in a script. Any idea as to how I can go about it ?
Thank you so much for your time and replies.
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Basically (I mean very basically) EA assign a stereotype to an element by creating an entry in the marvelous t_xref table. This is done via
@STEREO;Name=<stereo>;FQName=<profile id>::<meta type>;@ENDSTEREO;setting in the description column. It's a bit work to supply all values. I might add a chapter in my Inside book to explain this aspect of t_xref.
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Thank You !
I did the SynchTaggedValues :)
Now,I need to parse all Stereotypes within a profile and get their names, Any ideas how I may I be able to do that ?
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You need an XML parser. EA does not offer any API to explore the MDG content. The MDG itself is structured in a simple way so you should be able to help yourself. However, if you got problems with details just ask.
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Look what I am doing now in my code
Repository.SynchProfile("SMM_Profile","Applications");
Repository.SynchProfile("SMM_Profile","DataTypes");
Repository.SynchProfile("SMM_Profile","Services");
Repository.SynchProfile("SMM_Profile","Domain");
If somehow I could get stereotypes from the SMM_Profile, I would need to use a single loop instead of repeating each line of code.
But from what you are saying getting stereotypes from MDG is not possible in EA.
Then is there any other way ?
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As I said: you need to parse the MDG file directly with an XML parser. The relevant entries are near
MDG.Technology/UMLProfiles/UMLProfile(id)/Content/Stereotypes
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