[news.eclipse.modeling.mdt.uml2] Re: UML2 Stereotypes missing when loadi

[Ed Merks <Ed.Merks@xxxxxxxxx>]

Philip,

If you don't need that other profile stuff, fun, but did you take note 
of the resource factory that's being used? 


Philip Mayer wrote:
> Dear Ed,
>
> yes, I've read that FAQ entry, whioh seems to require me to 
> explicitely load the uml2 JAR. I'd rather not do this for obvious 
> reasons, and as of now all class handling issues have been handled 
> perfectly by Eclipse for me.
>
> So, is there any other way of doing this which does not require the 
> URI to the JAR file?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Philip
>
> Ed Merks wrote:
> > Philip,
> >
> > I think this is a FAQ
> >
> >     
> > http://wiki.eclipse.org/MDT/UML2/FAQ#What.27s_required_to_load_a_UML_.28.uml.29_resource_from_a_standalone_application.3F 
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Philip Mayer wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I have worked successfully with UML 2.0.0 models, including applied 
> > > stereotypes, exported from MagicDraw in my plugins for quite some 
> > > time now. MagicDraw exports several .uml files - one is my project, 
> > > the others are profiles, among them my own. They are referenced in 
> > > the project.uml file.
> > >
> > > When I load the main file *in a plugin* with the following code, 
> > > everything is fine and I can get a correct list of applied 
> > > stereotypes for an element with element.getAppliedStereotypes().
> > >
> > > fInputResourceSet= new ResourceSetImpl();
> > > fInputResource= fInputResourceSet.getResource(fileURI, true);
> > >
> > > So far, so good. Now, I'm running the code not as a plugin, but 
> > > *standalone* (aim is to have faster test cases). I therefore 
> > > register the necessary packages before I execute the above code to 
> > > load the model:
> > >
> > > EPackage.Registry.INSTANCE.put("http://www.eclipse.org/uml2/2.0.0/UML";, 
> > > UMLPackage.eINSTANCE);
> > > Resource.Factory.Registry.INSTANCE.getExtensionToFactoryMap().put("uml", 
> > > new XMIResourceFactoryImpl());
> > >
> > > Now, I can read the UML model just as before and get all the 
> > > elements, correctly typed. However, a call to 
> > > element.getAppliedStereotypes() ALWAYS returns [].
> > >
> > > What am I missing? There are no exceptions or error messages I am 
> > > aware of.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Philip