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Bug 353569

Summary:	[serializer/codegen] don't assume EMF objects extend EObject
Product:	[Modeling] TMF	Reporter:	Moritz Eysholdt <moritz.eysholdt>
Component:	Xtext	Assignee:	Project Inbox <tmf.xtext-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	2.0.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
Whiteboard:

Description Moritz Eysholdt

2011-08-02 08:29:41 EDT

The Impl or Interface type specified for an EClass is not required to extend EObject. However, all objects can safely be cast to EObject because the generated Impl class will always implement EObject.

Comment 1 Sven Efftinge

2012-11-22 07:51:48 EST

EObject is used as the contract all over the place.