code import

[Oliver Kellogg]

Hello Jessica,

Round trip code import and code generation is not really supported.
That would involve removing objects (classes, attributes etc) that
were removed in the imported code.
Last time I tried, what Umbrello does is before adding a new object it
tries to find it by name in the currently loaded objects.
If the name exists then the existing object will be modified instead
of creating a new object.
I am not sure how reliably it works - there may certainly be bugs in that area.

I believe that diagrams are not automatically updated.
It may be that some diagram updates occur perchance but the mechanism
has not been looked at systematically.

There is a long standing wish on this topic,
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53382

HTH,

  Oliver


On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 5:06 AM Jessica Jones
<jess.jones.unitedkingdom at protonmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi
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> I have a question about the code import wizard.
> If I import a code file that has 1 class inside and I change something in this class and import the same file (with changed class) again in Umbrello, will Umbrello automatically update the class diagram or only the treeview (drag-and-drop of the class manually needed again)?
>
> Thx
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