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[mdt-bpmn2.dev] ItemDefinition and structureRef

Hi all,

I'm running across some problems with the bpmn2 metamodel when trying to reference informational items with an ItemDefinition. This is related to https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=340068

The main issue is that structureRef is a reference to an EObject; as I understand it, for itemKind=INFORMATION the structureRef doesn't necessarily refer to any kind of data structure, nor EObject - it could be a plain String object. At some point in its history, this feature was a QName (see the links in https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=355651 to discussions about why this was changed) but it's been changed to EObject Reference.

Since interpretation of this feature is mostly up to the runtime anyway, does anyone see a problem with making this an Object instead of a EObject reference?

Also, the BPMN 2.0 spec states that the default value for itemKind is INFORMATION, but the model has the default as PHYSICAL - but that's a minor issue.

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Robert ("Bob") Brodt
Senior Software Engineer
JBoss by Red Hat



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