Modeling Generic Attributes

[jmikhail]

I'm wondering if anyone has run into trying to model generic attributes in AndroMDA. Our project is using java 5, so we'd like to take advantage of generics...more specifically with the collections framework.



Now I can figure this out for associations since I know the type of the other end. I already modified our templates to generate generic collections for many relationships. But I haven't found a way to do it using attributes. I think the main problem is that I'm modeling to datatypes. I don't want to create a different mapping for every genericized collection. So I'm just pinging the forum to see if anyone has run across this.



If not, I guess one quick option I have would be to introduce a new tagged value where I can specify the type. But I'd prefer not to if there is a more elegant solution.



John

[dysinger]

Search the forum for Generics. I asked the same question a while back.

[jmikhail]

Well, looks like there was no resolution to the problem. It's cool, I'll just have to get creative and come up with something we can use for the time being.

[wouter.zoons]

perhaps you could model the attribute's multiplicity and use a Collection or something with the generic type as the one modeled for that attribute

Code: Select all

Person.addresses : Address 0..* --> Collection<Address>

just as with association ends