#30 — ArgoUML default model with data types, stereotypes and tagged value definintions for ArchGenXML

Sounds pretty nice, but I don't have argouml. Could you put this on the archetypes-users mailinglist with a pointer to this issue? That should get us a reaction from the argouml users pretty quickly.

You're missing a tagged value for i18ncontent

I already saw someone mention it on the mailinglist "hey, look at that if you've got argouml", so I'll include it. Could you write a short howto on how to use it with one or two screenshots? That'd really help.

If you give me your username I'll add you to our documentation area.

I've added your 0.4 to the samples/ directory of ArchGenXML (argouml_profile.xmi).

I added you to the doc area.

About the directory: I dislike putting it in the root, it's too crowded already. And the samples directory is where we keep other UML files. Perhaps the doc directory (though that's copy-pasted from the tutorial here at plone.org, so not ideal). Ah well, perhaps we should make a poseidon/samples/ and a argouml/samples and argouml/base.xmi and so. Feedback?

I put it in argouml/argouml_profile.xmi, as 'default.xmi' doesn't really tell you anything about the purpose. (Your 0.5 version, btw.)

I tried enabling images for howtos, but I can't. PloneHelpCenter restriction. So you either have place your image elsewhere or you have to replace the howto with a tutorial. I consider it a PHC bug ;-)

About the image: place it in http://plone.org/[…]/archgenxml-manual, and add '_for_argouml_howto' or so in the filename. Quickest solution.

Great job, great howto. Thanks!

     version 0.6 2006/03/25 Pander fixed duplicate id for tag definition i18ncontent

changed id of i18ncontent from 522 into 523

Here is the 0.6 version that has also been added to the ArchGenXML trunk in the argouml. The last version posted here is the 0.5 still containing the double defenition.

I believe there are one or two tags missing.

According to Archetypes 1.3.1 Widget Reference (http://plone.org/[…]/arch_widget_quickref_1_3_1) there are two widget tags that control the visibility of the widget - widget:visible and widget:modes. Neither tag is in the drop down list. There is a 'visible' tag, but it does not seem to have any effect on the visibility of the widget. The tag widget:modes does seem to work if I add it manually to the field schema.

I am using
Plone 2.1.2,
Zope (Zope 2.8.6-final, python 2.3.5, linux2),
Python 2.3.5 (#2, Sep 4 2005, 22:01:42) [GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)],
ArchGenXML 1.4.0-beta2
ArgoUML-0.20
argouml_profile.xmi version 0.5 2006/03/17

My questions:

1. Is widget:visible deprecated in favor of widget:modes?
2. What does the tag visible do?
3. Please add widget:modes to the model if that is the right tag.

Thanks!

Mark

=== HOWTO make loading of profile a single click in windows. ===

Windows: How can I get ArgoUML to load when I double-click on a model file?

    The trick is to do things in two steps. First, open Windows Explorer and find a .zargo file, and then right-click on it. You should get the normal Windows menu, including an Open or Open With option. At this point, give a description for the file like "ArgoUML Model", and tell Windows to use Notepad to open the file. That's not what you want to do ultimately, but it does get Windows to accept the .zargo extension as representing a valid file type.
(comment: I clicked on the argouml_profile.xmi file and this entire operation is for the .xmi extension not .zargo )

    Now close, and then reopen Windows Explorer. If you are using a version of Windows prior to XP go to the Explorer menu and select View->Options. For XP you would use Tools->Folder Options. You should get a two (or more) tabbed dialog. Click the "File Types" dialog and then scroll through the list for the Description you gave - in this example "ArgoUML Model". Click to select that file type, and then click the "Edit" button.

    Now, click on the "Open" action and then the "Edit" button there. You will then get a dialog that has a line for entering in the application action that will have a line for using Notepad to open the file. Replace that line with:

    "C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\javaw.exe" "-Dargo.defaultModel=your_PC_path\argouml_profile.xmi" -jar "your_PC_path\ArgoUML-0.20\argouml.jar" "%L"

    Substitute your path to your JavaW.exe and ArgoUML.jar files if they aren't located where specified above. Click OK, then click OK, then click OK (three buttons on three different levels of the dialog).

    You can now double-click on your model and have ArgoUML instantly loaded.

(source: http://argouml.tigris.org/faqs/users.html#win_link )
( for comparison here is my open action in windows:
"C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\javaw.exe" "-Dargo.defaultModel=C:\Documents and Settings\Ivan\Desktop\ArgoUML-0.20\argouml_profile.xmi" -jar "C:\Documents and Settings\Ivan\Desktop\ArgoUML-0.20\argouml.jar" "%L"
)

I can't manage to start this stuff under windows with your file loaded. TheCommand Line expands to this :
 
D:\argouml>"C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\"\bin\java.exe -Dargo.defaultModel=D:\argouml\ArchGenXMLprofile.xmi -jar "D:\argouml\argouml.jar"


Argouml starts and shows an empty file. When I insert a class, I don't see any of the stereotypes.

Norbert, you seem to have your double quotes in all sorts of funny places. Perhaps that's the problem?

Otherwise, pander: can you help? I'm not on windows/argouml.

Seems you are right about the double quotes ! Thanks a lot.

We should update the model file on trunk when we change it - lets keep it in svn. Pander: you have repository access?

Just uploaded the newest file to svn.

A nice feature would be to generate this model from the current state of agx, to get new tgvs etc. automatically. Of course, not all possible tgvs are defined in the agx code, but we could create a list of those ekstra possibilities, to include in the generation of the model. (Standard archetypes field / widget properties etc.).

Hi Sune,

No I don't have svn access, can you set this up for me?

Thanks, Pander

Pander, you can request write access by following the steps in this document:

http://plone.org/development/info/write-access-collective

That document is for write access to the collective. You need access to archetypes, so change your request accordingly.

Pander, I looked up your username on plone.org and you *are* a member of both archetypescommitters and collectivecommitters. So you should be able to update the file yourself. Perhaps you need a 'https' check out instead of a 'http' one?

The best solution to all this is of course to generate the .xmi file. The tagged value and stereotypes lists on plone.org are already generated (nicely rendered as structured text) from the code itself.

So: could someone make a bit of an overview of what ought to end up in the .xmi file? Only stereotypes and tagged values? Or also datatypes? Etc. Preferably in an email to plone.users.

I fix argouml_profile.xmi in trunk and in the 1.5 branch:

http://dev.plone.org/archetypes/changeset/7618
http://dev.plone.org/archetypes/changeset/7619

I am trying to use this .xmi file with argoUML version 0.24.

The stereotypes view, action, form are not available for operations. They are available for methods, but they do not generate the expected output with ArchGenXML. The method seems to generate no code. Operations seem to generate methods on the Archetype class.

I tried changing the base class from Method to Operation for the view, action and form stereotypes, but it still did not generate the expected code.

Does anyone know how I should progress?

Thanks - Kevin

I have worked this out. When I edited the profile file, the stereotypes were still somehow connected to Methods. I reverted to the standard profile and I added the new stereotypes to my model. They work fine now.

This may not be the best place to mention this since the issue is resolved, but hopefully the right people are monitoring updates anyway.

The profile mechanism is changing for ArgoUML 0.26. Users can now manage profiles using the GUI and remove the Java profile or even the default UML profile as well as add their own profiles. I think the ArchGenXML profile should be usable in this scheme with only minor tweaking (or perhaps none).

One important thing to bear in mind though is a parallel change that was made at the same time. Previously profile elements were copied on reference into the main model. Instead, no profiles are linked and the linkages are maintained using the xmi.id values. The significance of this change is that the xmi.id values *must* remain stable as the file is updated or the linkages will break (or worse change to something that wasn't intended).

Feel free to email me on Tigris (tfmorris) with any questions.

I'm not the anonymous who posted the earlier response with respect to stereotypes on operations/methods in ArgoUML but I'm having the same problem (I think).

The xmi file which came with the archgenxml-2.0 version seems to only allow stereotypes for action,view etc on the ArgoUML method rather than the operation. ArchGenXML seems to look for the stereotype on the operation and not finding it, creates a python method rather than generating a view or action.

I have attempted to run the ArgoUMLProfileGenerator.py to rebuild the xmi file, but this aborts with messages about "ImportError: cannot import name utils" (I'm running Plone 3.0.5 and ArgoUML 0.25.2 on Windows XP).

Ivor.

I'm not the anonymous who posted the earlier response with respect to stereotypes on operations/methods in ArgoUML but I'm having the same problem (I think).

The xmi file which came with the archgenxml-2.0 version seems to only allow stereotypes for action,view etc on the ArgoUML method rather than the operation. ArchGenXML seems to look for the stereotype on the operation and not finding it, creates a python method rather than generating a view or action.

I have attempted to run the ArgoUMLProfileGenerator.py to rebuild the xmi file, but this aborts with messages about "ImportError: cannot import name utils" (I'm running Plone 3.0.5 and ArgoUML 0.25.2 on Windows XP).

Ivor.

Ivor Gibbon:
Yes, I have the same problem. However, I've found its solution: just copy ArgoUMLProfileGenerator.py to one-level-higher directory, and run it. Should work.

Hi Pander,

I have version 1.10 of argouml_profile.xmi and I have been trying to find out if that's still the latest version. I'd thought I'd downloaded it from the tigris.org site, but now I can't find it there anywhere.

Is argouml_profile.xmi still at tigris.org? If so, where can I find it? If not, is it available for download elsewhere?

Also, what is the current version?

Cheers,
Rob Hills
Waikiki, Western Australia

Thanks for the reply Pander,

I had installed the latest version of ArchGenXML via Easy Install and I have hunted through the ArchGenXML installation (under the Lib/site-packages/archgenxml-2.0-py2.4.egg/archgenxml tree) for argouml_profile.xmi without success. I also had a copy of archgenxml-2.0.tar.gz on my pc so I looked through that and found the file - in the /archgenxml-2.0.tar/archgenxml-2.0/umltools/argouml/ directory inside the tar.gz.

Should argouml_profile.xmi be installed somewhere by the Python Egg installation process or is this expected behaviour.