[tigerstripe-dev] Containment

["Richard Craddock (rcraddoc)" <rcraddoc@xxxxxxxxx>]

All,

 

(especially John)

 

as part of the work to add Packages to the list of supported Artifacts, we are proposing to add some methods to IModelComponent.

 

Does the following list look reasonable/complete.

 

 

public void setContainingModelComponent(IModelComponent containingComponent) throws TigerstripeException;

public IModelComponent getContainingModelComponent();

public void addContainedModelComponents(Collection<IModelComponent> components) throws TigerstripeException;

public void addContainedModelComponent(IModelComponent component) throws TigerstripeException;

public Collection<IModelComponent> getContainedModelComponents();

 

The basic idea is that Package Artifacts will contain instances of packageArtifacts and the existing ArtifactTypes.

 

Existing Artifacts will contain Fields, Methods, Literals etc

 

Methods could in turn contain Arguments (if they were properly Modelled!) this might need to wait for EMF before we make that change!

 

 

Adding an invalid thing (eg saying a Field contains an Artifact) would throw an Exception.

 

Cheers,

 

Richard