[fpc-pascal] Generating code form xmi files

[Osvaldo Filho]

We could work on it.

Perhaps any one cold start a project for that. And others help.

My English and my knowledge in C++ is very pour. But i help any one do it.

2009/4/3 Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org>

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> On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Mattias Gärtner wrote:
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> > Zitat von Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org>:
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> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Philippe Martinole
> > > > <philippe.martinole at teleauto.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > xmi files (not xml) are used to save uml models :
> > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_Metadata_Interchange
> > > > > and I want to gererate my data structures from my uml diagrams
> > > > > I would be suprised if nothing already exists
> > > >
> > > > I've been looking for something like this for a long time and haven't
> > > > fond anything for Free Pascal / Lazarus. You can obviously use Model
> > > > Maker and simply tweak the generated object pascal code to make sure
> > > > they are compilable with FPC. But I believe Model Maker is quite
> > > > pricey.
> > >
> > > Well, Umbrello (Open source, comes with KDE) can generate code from XMI
> > > for various languages (C,C++,PHP, Java) except pascal. All you need to
> > > do is write an output engine for pascal.
> > >
> > > It is on my todo list, item no. 132.458 :-)
> >
> > I just tested Umbrello and I got the impression it is very C++-centric -
> the
> > dialogs, the options, the code. For example I don't see how to setup free
> > pascal properties - it seems to have only basic variables as attributes.
> > Is this a shortcoming of UML in general?
>
> No, I don't think so; But the 'pascal' implementation is very rudimentary,
> for instance there is no 'published' visibility. if you look at the
> language specific options, you'll see that the pascal language has no
> options yet. I would expect that one could put some pascal-specific
> things there.
>
> I expect it'll be up to us to provide this :(
>
> I use umbrello extensively for the diagrams till now,
> it would of course be nice to have it import/export pascal code as well.
>
> So, it remains on my todo list. But maybe if interest is raised enough,
> someone with more time/pressing needs will do it before me :-)
>
> Michael.
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