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Bug 325915 - Support comments for Enum Literals
Summary: Support comments for Enum Literals
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: EMF
Classification: Modeling
Component: Core (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
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Assignee: Ed Merks CLA
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Reported: 2010-09-21 21:11 EDT by Miles Parker CLA
Modified: 2012-10-05 12:45 EDT (History)
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Description Miles Parker CLA 2010-09-21 21:11:38 EDT 
Currently attributes and references can be given property descriptions, but enum literals cannot. This would be a nice feature to have.
Comment 1 Ed Merks CLA 2012-10-05 01:23:54 EDT 
Enum literals aren't properties.  They do have translatable labels. I'm not sure who would generally use this.
Comment 2 Miles Parker CLA 2012-10-05 12:33:15 EDT 
This is actually a pretty common case for when you want to support self documenting models. (Yes, some of us do like to document our models. :P) Without this feature there is no way in the model to provide a description for what a given literal actually signifies.
Comment 3 Ed Merks CLA 2012-10-05 12:45:58 EDT 
You can provide model documentation via Ecore annotations.  They'll show up in the Javadoc and you can access them programmatically with 

org.eclipse.emf.ecore.util.EcoreUtil.getDocumentation(EModelElement)