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  1. OMG Issue

DEPL — Use optional attributes for optional values

  • Key: DEPL-11
  • Legacy Issue Number: 5963
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Zuehlke Engineering ( Frank Pilhofer)
  • Summary:

    Some attributes (like UUIDs and labels) are described as
    optional. In the model, optional attributes (multiplicity 0..1)
    should be used for them; this has the advantage that no empty
    elements are needed in XML documents; optional attributes could
    still be mapped to empty (but non-optional, i.e. non-sequence)
    strings in the PSM for CCM for IDL.

    Proposed resolution:

    Make all occurences of "label" and "UUID" attributes optional by
    changing "label: String" to "label: String [0..1]", likewise for
    UUID. The default value is set to "" (the empty string).

    In section 6.4, "PIM for CCM to PSM for CCM for IDL Transformation",
    add a paragraph that reads

    For all attributes of type String with multiplicity 0..1, update
    the multiplicity to 1..1. If the value is missing in an XML re-
    presentation of the model, the empty string is used as the default
    value.

  • Reported: DEPL 1.0b1 — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:58 GMT