[Moose-dev] Re: Namespace and Packages

On May 11, 2011, at 3:53 PM, Tudor Girba wrote: > Hi, > > Just to clarify: > - container points to the entity that influences the unique name of the current Type in fact ScopingEntity would be a better name :)

> - parentPackage points to the entity that represents the physical organization > > Cheers, > Doru > > > On 11 May 2011, at 15:38, Usman Bhatti wrote: > >> Ok ... so: >> ScopingEntity that defines the scope of the entity... >> ContainerEntity that contains a given entity... >> And I'll use ContainerEntity for C#. >> >> I was thinking of the way in which Moose interprets them... >> >> >> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr&gt; wrote: >> >> On May 11, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Nicolas Anquetil wrote: >> >>> I use Class.setContainer(Namespace) in VerveineJ >>> >>> But it is a bit strange that: >>> - NamedEntities have a ParentPackage relationship. Maybe this ParentPackage could be removed for the sake of consistency in the metamodel and we keep the more generic belongsTo (a ContainerEntity) >> >> you have two links. >> a class is scoped by a namespace >> a class is contained in a file/package >> >> in java and C3 the two are mixed but these links that orthogonal. >> >> >>> >>> - then Type as the relationship "container" (a ContainerEntity) which is explicitly documented as: "Container is a namespace, not a package (Smalltalk)." >>> Why not call it Namespace in this case? And, again, why should we treat differently Namespaces and Packages? >>> >>> nicolas >>> >>> De: "Usman Bhatti" <usman.bhatti(a)gmail.com&gt; >>> À: "Moose-related development" <moose-dev(a)iam.unibe.ch&gt; >>> Envoyé: Mercredi 11 Mai 2011 11:55:40 >>> Objet: [Moose-dev] Namespace and Packages >>> >>> I am creating a C# extractor for Moose. I am using Fame for java to access Famix objects and populate their information (similar to VerveineJ). While creating Famix.Class objects for C# classes, I need to set parent namespace to represent the namespace that the class belongs to. >>> >>> However, the Famix.Class only provides a single method to set the parent and that take a Famix.Package as a parameter. So, the following expression is an error for a Famix.Class object. >>> >>> class.setParentPackage(Namespace) >>> >>> Since, C# uses namespaces instead of Packages to organize classes, it would be good to set a Famix.Namespace to be the parent of a class. Does meta-model not provide a way that we can set Famix.Namespace as a parent of a class. I can see another method in the Famix.Class and that is SetContainer(ContainerEntity se). Can I use this method to set a Namespace to be the parent of a Class and keeping the parentPackage relationship empty? >>> >>> thanks. >>> >>> Usman >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Moose-dev mailing list >>> Moose-dev(a)iam.unibe.ch >>> https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Moose-dev mailing list >>> Moose-dev(a)iam.unibe.ch >>> https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Moose-dev mailing list >> Moose-dev(a)iam.unibe.ch >> https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Moose-dev mailing list >> Moose-dev(a)iam.unibe.ch >> https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > > "It's not how it is, it is how we see it." > > > _______________________________________________ > Moose-dev mailing list > Moose-dev(a)iam.unibe.ch > https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev _______________________________________________ Moose-dev mailing list Moose-dev(a)iam.unibe.ch https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev