FAMIXAssociation>>SourceAnchor

FAMIXAssociations being SourcedEntities have a 'sourceAnchor' instance variable.

However it redefines the method sourceAnchor :

    ^ self from sourceAnchor

I am sure there was some good reason to do this, but to me this is counter intuitive and something should probably be corrected.

(in practice I spent from 11pm to 1am yesterday looking for a bug that did not exist :-( )

nicolas

Indeed, this is because importers did not provide source anchors for associations. So, we just picked the best approximation for practical reasons.

The reason for not exporting source anchors for associations is scalability: associations account for some 70% of the amount of objects in the model. Adding a source anchor for each of them increases significantly the size.

Cheers,

Doru

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sure
but why not just let it return nil if there is nothing to return?

nicolas

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De: "Tudor Girba" <[hidden email]>
À: "Moose-related development" <[hidden email]>
Envoyé: Mardi 18 Octobre 2011 13:35:14
Objet: [Moose-dev] Re: FAMIXAssociation>>SourceAnchor

Hi,

Indeed, this is because importers did not provide source anchors for associations. So, we just picked the best approximation for practical reasons.

The reason for not exporting source anchors for associations is scalability: associations account for some 70% of the amount of objects in the model. Adding a source anchor for each of them increases significantly the size.

Cheers,

Doru

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Nicolas Anquetil <[hidden email]> wrote:

FAMIXAssociations being SourcedEntities have a 'sourceAnchor' instance variable.

However it redefines the method sourceAnchor :

    ^ self from sourceAnchor

I am sure there was some good reason to do this, but to me this is counter intuitive and something should probably be corrected.

(in practice I spent from 11pm to 1am yesterday looking for a bug that did not exist :-( )

nicolas

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