[news.eclipse.tools.emf] Re: Initialize multivalued attributes/reference

[Felix Dorner <felix_do@xxxxxx>]

Hi Ed,
 >> when adding a multivalued attribute to an EClass, the generated code
> > doesn't initialize the attribute. Thus,
> > calling getMyAttributeList() might return null. The solution is to 
> > perform a check or modify the generated code.
> >   
> This doesn't sound quite right to me.  All features for which upperBound 
>  > 1 will have an initialized list.

Uhm, the only thing i can think of that the behaviour is different for 
EAttributes and EReferences. I'm talking about an EReference.

> Is this list just a single valued feature who's value happens to be a 
> list (like from an XSD list type)?

I directly create the model with the tree editor, just like the 
author->*book example. So the type is book and its upperbound is -1.


Felix