[news.eclipse.tools.emf] Re: Complex Map Modeling

[Marcelo Paternostro <marcelop@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

There are a few considerations that I have to make before answering your 
question:

- You won't be able to model protected methods or attributes.  The basic 
idea is that everything that you model is, ultimately, accessible to the 
clients of your code.

- As extensions of the abstract class, Class1 and Class2 inherit the get 
method so you don't need to defined it again on each class.

- Is there a modeled attribute for the map or are you thinking on using 
operations?  If you are using an attribute, EMF would generate a 
set(Map<MyClass,?>) method in the abstract class which would conflict 
with the setters you want to define in the subclasses (a "Java" conflict 
not an "EMF" one ;-).  So I will assume that you are modeling operations.

All that said, I am attaching here a project with an ecore model that 
has what I think you are trying to do.

Cheers,
Marcelo

Gigaplex wrote:
> I have an abstract class that two other classes extend. I need a method 
> in this abstract class like this:
>
> protected abstract EMap<MyClass, ?> getMap();
>
>
> Then, I have two classes (not abstract) that extend this abstract class 
> that need to look like this:
>
> Class 1
> protected EMap<MyClass, ?> getMap();
> public void setMap(EMap<MyClass, ADifferentClass>)
>
> Class 2
> protected EMap<MyClass, ?> getMap();
> public void setMap(EMap<MyClass, SomeOtherClass>)
>
>
> Is it possible to model something like this in EMF? I've modeled maps 
> before but nothing like this.

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