Description Kelly Garces 2009-10-06 13:39:18 EDT

Some transformations take Ecore models as input. For example:

module toto;
create ... from m1 : Metametamodel;

where Metametamodel refers to Ecore

In the Ant tasks of ATL 2.0, one specifies that as follows:
<inModel name="m1" model="m1">
<inModel name="Metametamodel" model="%EMF">

In ATL 3.0, it would not be necessary to specify Metametamodel as inModel. Then, how to specify what reference model m1 conforms to?

A solution would be to create a loadModel task like this

<atl.loadModel name="Metametamodel" nsuri="http.../EMF"/>

However this causes inexpected behavior.

To solve the issue, we propose to agregate the attribute "metamodelName" to inModel. The value of this attribute refers to Ecore.

Please find enclosed a patch corresponding to the solution. Note that a similar solution may be needed for inOutModel or outModel.