Version: 1.3 (using KDE KDE 3.2.2) Installed from: SuSE RPMs OS: Linux How about "round-trip" engineering? Could you please add method/member_function code entry to the class/operation panel? And could you retain method code when importing? I am currently using Rational_Rose and Visio_UML which both do round-trip for well formed code. This is very handy when doing iterative development and you want to retain code changes made outside the modeling tool. Currently your tool is forward engineering only which severely limits what is otherwise quite a beautiful tool. It does UML quite simply without all the added bells and whistles (expensive crap) that Rat_Rose and Pisio tack on. Keepup the great work!
keith Burden <keithburden1@comcast.net> [040815 11:46]: > How about "round-trip" engineering? I'm pretty sure this kind of wish already exists... > Could you please add method/member_function code entry to the class/operation panel? It already exists if you have enabled the C++ or Java code generator. Sebastian
Sebastian Stein wrote: >------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- >You reported the bug, or are watching the reporter. > >http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87179 > > > > >------- Additional Comments From seb_stein gmx de 2004-08-15 11:55 ------- >keith Burden <keithburden1 comcast net> [040815 11:46]: > > >>How about "round-trip" engineering? >> >> > >I'm pretty sure this kind of wish already exists... > > > >>Could you please add method/member_function code entry to the class/operation panel? >> >> > >It already exists if you have enabled the C++ or Java code generator. > > >Sebastian > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sebastian, Round-tripping is available for attributes and method/function declarations but NOT for methods/functions -->BODIES<-- ( that is to say real code). In 1.2 you can round-trip ONLY the method/function declarations/definitions but NOT their bodies. If you don't believe me then try: 1.In Umbrello make a new model. 2.Define a class with at least one member function. 3.Export/generate the class. 4.Add some trivial code to that function ( something like: printf( "hello\n" ); ) 5.Define a new model in Umbrello. 6.Import the class you just modified from #4 (you only read the .h file!) 7.Export/genererate the class again to a NEW! location. 8.Save the model. When you look at the model.xmi file you CANNOT find any of the code you added in step #4 in the UML:Operation element for the method. As a matter of fact, you can't find "printf" anywhere in the model. Also if you inspect the class generated from #7 you will see the member fucntion is again EMPTY. The code you added in #4 is GONE. Therefore the member function code you added in step #4 is NOT present in the model and is NOT in the newly generated class. I did notice that if you generate in step 7 to the same directory used in step #3 that the code APPEARS to be intact. But since I can't find the added code in the XMI model file after importing, the code is NOT really in the model. This is required for REAL round trip engineering. So are you saying that round-tripping is present only because you don't overwrite the existing .cpp file? If you check: http://geeksoc.org/~jr/umbrello/kdesdk/apidocs/umbrello/html/classUMLOperation.html You will see that UMLOperation has no attributes to store any code! According to the OMG XMI 1.2 spec, the code should have been stored in UML:Operation.method.body but I cant find this or any UML:Method elements in the model. Have I mnissed something?? Is round-trip in 1.3?? What's going on? Again you have a really great tool that needs just a FEW things to compete with Rational or Visio. Sorry about the long message but I wanted to be specific. Thankx Keith
Please read my comment again. I said I think this kind of _wish_ already exists in the bug tracking system. And indeed it does as bug 53382. And you asked for a possibility to insert code for operations. This feature already exists in Umbrello, if you have turned on C++/Java code generator. So I don't said that round-tripping already exists. Please feel free to send in patches! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 53382 ***