Bug 86952

Summary: Rendering of attributes as associations
Product: [Applications] umbrello Reporter: Oliver Kellogg <okellogg>
Component: generalAssignee: Oliver Kellogg <okellogg>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description Oliver Kellogg 2004-08-11 07:23:54 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

Code import currently creates aggregations/compositions
for members whose type it can resolve.
This is not necessary, and can actually be bothering.
Instead, create attributes for all data members.
Resolve the types of the attributes, and determine
whether a pointer is involved.
On dragging imported classes from the list view to the
diagram, do as follows:

- If the class representing the type of an attribute
  is not present on the diagram then display the
  attribute in the class' attribute compartment.

- If the class representing the type of an attribute
  is present on the diagram then do not display that
  attribute in the class' attribute compartment.
  Instead, display an appropriate association
  (composition or aggregation depending on whether
  a pointer is involved.)

Implementation note: This implies that
1) the m_pObject of an AssociationWidget may also be
   a UMLAttribute
2) the type of an UMLAttribute is a pointer to a model
   class (not just a string)
Comment 1 Oliver Kellogg 2004-08-18 00:21:33 UTC 
A sneak preview is possible now. Import the following file:

// attribute_assoc_demo.h
class referenced {
public:
  referenced() {}
};
typedef referenced* refPtr;
class referencer {
public:
  referenced * getCrudeRef() { return m_pCrude; }
  refPtr getTypedefRef() { return m_pTypedef; }
private:
  referenced *m_pCrude;
  refPtr m_pTypedef;
};


An AssocWidget is made for m_pCrude, but not yet for
m_pTypedef. The load/save of the new originType() and
isReference() features of UMLDatatype isn't there yet.
Comment 2 Oliver Kellogg 2004-08-21 06:33:42 UTC 
*** Bug has been marked as fixed ***.