[news.eclipse.tools.emf] Re: Is it possible that ECoreUtil.Copy() change

[Zardosht Hodaie <zhodaie@xxxxxxxxx>]

thank you Ed for your fast reply. The problem was in model. An Attribute 
 of one of containments had its derived value set to true. I don't how 
it fixed the problem, but it was the cause.


Ed Merks schrieb:
> Zardosht,
>
> This should not be possible.    You could add an adapter to listen for 
> any changes.  E.g., you might use an EContentAdapter on the original 
> object to monitor any notifications that changes would produce...
>
>
>
> Zardosht Hodaie wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I encountered a problem using ECoreUtil.Copy() method. Here are the 
> > steps I did:
> >
> > 1. create objA (it contains a hierarchy of containments and EObjects 
> > referencing each other)
> > 2. copy to create objB (objB = (cast)ECoreUtil.Copy(objA))
> > 3. serialize both objects to separate files
> >
> > Now i expect that the two files have exactly identical contents. But 
> > they differ in just one line, in which two references of an ordered 
> > containment are output vice versa.
> > I am sure that no problem occurs during serialization as i checked the 
> > serialization routine with the same object (i.e. serialize(objA, 
> > objA)) and both files were identical. That is, EcoreUtil.Copy() 
> > changes contents of objA as its being copied to objB.
> >
> > Can someone please explain what is the possible problem?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Zardosht