[news.eclipse.technology.gmt] Re: oaw: beginner questions

[Sven Efftinge <sven@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Yannick,

I think I don't understand what your problem is.
You are talking about a code generator based on Xpand, aren't you?
What do you mean by "parsing" associations and classes?
Why don't you write everything to the FILE the first time you open it?

regards,
Sven

Yannick wrote:
> Well, in my .uml2 file, associations are siblings of classes or
> interfaces. Each association (2 ends) affect 2 class/interface. And I
> create one java file for each class/interface.
>
> Then if I parse associations after parsing classes and interfaces, I
> don't know how to open the wanted file for each association-end and then
> add information inside it (FILE only creates a new file it seems).
>
> So what I did was to parse associations first, store information and
> then fetch it when the class/interface computed is part of an
> association-end. That way I can add association information in correct
> java file.
>
>
> If you have a better solution I'll be glad to hear it. :)