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Bug 368561

Summary: Model Fragment support for appending a copy of other model elements
Product: z_Archived Reporter: Cedric Brun <cedric.brun>
Component: MylynAssignee: Project Inbox <mylyn.intent-inbox>
Status: CLOSED MOVED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description Cedric Brun CLA 2012-01-13 11:06:23 EST 
It would be usefull to have the hability to specify, in a document, copies of model elements.

Let's say I describe a model element 'standard_model_element' in my documentation/chapter1.

in chapter 2, I could write a fragment like
  
  aContainmentReference += copy(standard_model_element)

(and may be specify whether it is a simple or a deep copy

  aContainmentReference += deep_copy(standard_model_element)


A copy should probably be referençable in some way with a specific user name.

That would open vast new possibilities for Intent, capitalizing "common model parts" and describing, within the document, specialized version of these model elements next to the paragraph explaining why the customization is useful.

(The syntax is not a real proposition... may be reusing the 'new' keyword would be better...

2 minutes impact analysis  : it would mean adding specific keywords and concepts in the model fragments. Change the way those fragments are getting compiled into the model itself and the way traceability information is kept.
Comment 1 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2022-11-15 11:45:08 EST 
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