[news.eclipse.tools.emf] Re: Does a datatype describing the name of a ES

[Ed Merks <Ed.Merks@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mickael,

Please use the EMF newsgroup for questions about EMF.  I've added it to 
the "to" list of the reply. More comments below. 

Mickael Istria wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I added an extension point in our EMF-based plugin (JWT) to allow to 
> use custom property editors in property sheets. (More details on bug 
> 240499)
>
> To be able to define the the name of the EStructuralFeature the 
> extension is targetting, I created a custom type:
>
> public class FeatureFullDescription {
>     private String featureName;
>     private String className;
>     private String packageName;
>     // ....
> }
>
> My question is: Does such a type already exists in EMF ? (if yes, I'd 
> rather use it to avoid duplication)
No.  EcoreUtil.getURI(eStructuralFeature) would give you a single unique 
string you could use to represent a feature.  You could use 
resourceSet.getEObject(<uri>) to resolve that string to the feature 
object...
> Thanks in advance
> Mickael