2 Jul
2007
2 Jul
'07
1:04 p.m.
Hello Doru
I have to be more precise :)
The models that I import are not conformed to FAMIX. My models can be
conformed to anything.
Let me give you an example:
Imagine that I work with a meta model with a class Chicken and a class Egg.
Imagine then that I import the instances of Chicken and Egg into Moose.
With Moose, I can inspect may instances, apply the navigations. But, I
couldn't apply the Mondrian visualizations as "blueprint complexity",
"UML
macro" .... because they are no defined in my classes Chicken and Egg. The
only views avalaible is "Name of occurrences" but it leads into a bug :(
Therefore, I want to know if it is possible to generate a visualisation
for my instances of Chicken and Egg. And apply the same visualization for
instances of an other meta model (Flower and Tree for example).
Do you understand what I want?
thank you for you help
sara
Hi Sara,
Mondrian is a generic visualization framework and it is part of Moose
Config. Mondrian has a graph model behind, it works at the level of
Smalltalk objects and allows you to script your visualization.
For example, if you have a FAMIX model in a variable called
mooseModel and you want to show the hierarchy of classes you can do:
view := Mondrian.ViewRenderer new.
view nodes: mooseModel allClasses.
view
edges: mooseModel allInheritanceDefinitions
from: #superclass
to: #subclass.
view treeLayout.
view open.
You can find more details here:
http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/moose/tools/mondrian/
But, could you elaborate on what you have in mind when you say
generic visualizations?
Cheers,
Doru
On Jul 2, 2007, at 10:22 AM, sellossa(a)ensieta.fr wrote:
Hi,
I am still working on an Ecore Importer in Moose and I need some
advices
for a particular point.
Here is the context: First, I managed to generate code from a meta-
model
conformed to Ecore. Then I managed to import into Moose instances
of this
meta-model in generating allmethods in MooseModel.
For the moment, there is no visualisation for the instances imported.
That's why I think it could be great if I generated generic
visualisations
with my code generator.
I had a look on FAMIX entities to see how some visualisations are
implemented, but it's still difficult for me to know how I could
generate
generic visualisations.
What do you think about it?
thank you for your help
sara
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Hi Sara,
Your meta-model of chicken and eggs sounds really nice :). Did you
also manage to have relationships between entities?
Currently, we synchronize the meta-descriptions only manually. But,
indeed it would be nice if we could recompute the meta-descriptions
at compile time or unload time. This is part of the future work, and
until then .
I saw that you used System reinitializeDefaultSystem. However, at the
moment in the case of Moose you need to call AbstractEntity
initializeAllMofDescriptions, or just used from the VW main menu:
Tools/Moose Utilities/Reinitialize meta descriptions. This deals with
some specific meta-annotations related to Moose.
Cheers,
Doru