[Uml-devel] UML standard deviation (was curiosity)

[tomas.walch at se.transport.bombardier.com]

Hi!

One deviation I have found from the standard UML is the format of attributes
which are displayed in a C++ kind of way ( [visibility] [type]  name ) where the
correct UML notation is (quoting entire definition, even though everything isn't
supported in our yet-to-be-properly-named application) :

[visibility] name [multiplicity] [: type] [= initial-value] [{property-string}]

Operations deviate in that "void" return types show up in parsed code, it isn't
customary UML, and a related beaty flaw is that a colon is appended to
operations without any return type, like constructors.

Attached are updated versions of attribute.cpp and operation.cpp where I have
applied the standard notation to the toString()-methods. (I don't have
cvs-access and I wouldn't be able to use it anyway 'cause of a far too rigid
firewall at my office).

The classparser also adds qualyfiers like "virtual" to the return type, do we
wan't this? I guess it helps code generation, but it's more C++ than UML.

regards,

Tomas Walch.


(See attached file: operation.cpp)(See attached file: attribute.cpp)

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