Description Klaus Birken 2012-01-19 08:59:04 EST

Non-basic array attributes in a DataClass will lead to bad Java code. Example:

	DataClass ExampleSimple {
		Attribute a : int16
	}
	DataClass ExampleArrayDerived {
		Attribute val [ 19 ] : ExampleSimple
	}

From the above model, the Java generator produces

// default constructor
public ExampleArrayDerived() {
	val = new ExampleSimple();  // !! Type mismatch: cannot convert from ExampleSimple to ExampleSimple[]
}
	
// deep copy
public ExampleArrayDerived deepCopy() {
	ExampleArrayDerived copy = new ExampleArrayDerived();
	copy.val = val.deepCopy();  // !! Cannot invoke deepCopy() on the array type ExampleSimple[]
	return copy;
}

This code is not compilable (see comments with the compiler's error messages).