[news.eclipse.tools.emf] Re: Mapping EObject Objects to Diagnostic Objec

[Ed Merks <Ed.Merks@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Felix 


Felix Dorner wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I have read the (too short, but 1000 times better than nothing) 
> chapter on EMF Validation in the Rough Cuts Book, and have a small 
> doubt, please correct if I make wrong assumptions.
>
> I call Diagnostician.eINSTANCE.validate(myContainmentRoot), to 
> validate my whole model which gives me a tree-like structure 
> consisting of Diagnostic objects.
>
> From a certain Diagnostic object, I can then get the involved model 
> object(s) via the Diagnostic's getData() method.
>
> I'd rather like to have a Map<EObject,List<Diagnostic>>, which would 
> map a given eObject to all the Diagnostic's it is involved (i.e. its 
> getData() contains the eObject).
>
> Is something like this available through the framework, or do I need 
> to manually compute the Map based on the Diagnostic tree?
>
>
> What's the role of the "context" map argument in the Diagnostician's 
> validate() methods? Unfortunately there's no information in the Javadoc.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Felix