177647 – Provide a mechanism to contribute new event types

Bug 177647 - Provide a mechanism to contribute new event types

Summary: Provide a mechanism to contribute new event types

Status:	VERIFIED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	EMF Services
Classification:	Modeling
Component:	Validation (show other bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PC Linux

Importance:	P2 enhancement
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	David Cummings
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Keywords:	api, contributed

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Reported:	2007-03-15 16:13 EDT by Christian Damus
Modified:	2017-02-24 15:08 EST (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Proposed patch (41.81 KB, patch) 2007-03-20 14:22 EDT, David Cummings	no flags	Details \| Diff
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Description Christian Damus

2007-03-15 16:13:33 EDT

When live validation validates notifications, the event type of the notification is compared against a list of predefined types in EMFTEventTypes.  If the event type is not in EMFTEventTypes, the notification is not validated.

There are cases where clients wish to define their own event types for their own custom notifications.  An example might be "Add to container" and "Delete from container" events.  The client can derive these custom notifications from the raw EMF-defined notifications, and in doing so would make it easier to target containment changes without having to specify all possible containers (which could be many).

Comment 1 David Cummings

2007-03-20 14:22:02 EDT

Created attachment 61436 [details]
Proposed patch

Comment 2 Christian Damus

2007-03-21 17:08:21 EDT

Committed the patch, with a change to the proposed constraintProviders schema.  Reinstated the enumeration of core <event> element names and added a new <customEvent> element, similarly structured, whose name is required by not enumerated.  This clearly indicates the dependency on custom (non-EMF-defined) notifications types.

Comment 3 Nick Boldt

2008-01-28 16:35:32 EST

Move to verified as per bug 206558.