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

[Mickael Istria <mickael.istria@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ed,

Sorry for posting on eclipse.modeling, I thought that it was the 
official EMF group.
Thank you for your answer. I think I'll keep my class for this usage 
since it contains some inheritance logic.

Regards,
Mickael

Ed Merks a écrit :
> 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