Re: [mdr-users] createExtent(String, RefObject, RefPackage[])

Martin Matula <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:55:43 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.modules.mdr.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Have you tried debugging it?

Pieter Van Gorp wrote:

>Hi again,
>
>On 8/9/05, Pieter Van Gorp <[email protected]> wrote:
>  
>
>>On 8/8/05, Martin Matula <[email protected]> wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>To fix this, you need to load the tracing metamodel. Now find UML
>>>package in this tracing metamodel and instantiate it. If you now find
>>>tracing package, instantiate it and pass in the instance of UML package,
>>>the instance of UML package will be reused.
>>>      
>>>
>>Good to know,
>>thanks for the insight, I'll try it right away!
>>    
>>
>After changing merely one line of code, the clustered extent was
>indeed filled up with the content of the UML-XMI: I replaced
><original>appMextent= (RefPackage)
>repo.createExtent(appMurl.toExternalForm(), getMainMP(appMMurl, "UML",
>xmiReader));</original>
>
>by: 
>
><new>appMextent= (RefPackage)
>repo.createExtent(appMurl.toExternalForm(), getMainMP(traceMMurl,
>"UML", xmiReader));</new>
>
>Strange enough, I'm now confronted with the opposite problem: all UML
>elements seem to be available twice!  Moreover, this leads to
>"duplicate IDREF" exceptions when using XMI modules for importing UML
>profiles.  I started debugging with a UML file without XMI modules (by
>storing the UML profiles within my UML test project) and can now open
>the XMI that MDR writes from the clustered UML extent to a file called
>"standalone.xmi".  Luckily, MagicDraw ignores the duplicate model
>elements... however, I believe I should remove the error in my code
>that causes the duplication of model elements... Martin, am I still
>using the API wrong?
>
>Please refer to yesterday's mail for reproducing my problem:
>http://mdr.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=3255
>
>Regards,
>-- Pieter.
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>