Reverse engineering and associations

General Questions/Discussions
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Hi

I’m evaluating Visaul-paradigm SDE for Visual Studio .NET 2003

This addin is way cool and very easy to use. You just have correct the small details! Or maybe i’ve overlooked something.

I Tried to reverse engineer this small example.

using System;
using TestUML;

namespace TestUML
{

public class Wheel
{
	public Wheel()
	{
		//
		// TODO: Add constructor logic here
		//
	}
}

public class Volvo
{
	private Wheel[]  whels = new Wheel[4];
	public Volvo()
	{
		
		//
		// TODO: Add constructor logic here
		//
	}
}

class TheApp
{
	private Volvo myCar = new Volvo();

	[STAThread]
	static void Main(string[] args)
	{
		//
		// TODO: Add code to start application here
		//
	}
}

}

and expected the class diagram to Show the associations between Volvo an wheel as an association line in the diagram. Not just as a field-string inside the class - box.

I Realized that this happened because I declare an array

private Wheel[] whels = new Wheel[4];

Somehow VP-SDE doesn’t handle the [] correctly!

Am I right?

It should generate an association line with multiplicity 1 and 4.

If I change

private Wheel[] whels = new Wheel[4];

to

private Wheel whels = new Wheel();

the association line is formed as exspected.

This must be fixed.

BR Christian Johansen