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Attribute Facets

Defined attributes can be further detailed in ADOxx using attribute facets. For different attribute types, attributes facets are defined in platform to specify e.g. the value domain, restrictions, helptexts etc.

The following attribute facets are available (a mapping of facets to type can be found in the following correlation table):

  • Attribute Domain Definition
  • Regular Expression Definition
  • InterRef Domain Definition
  • Enumeration Domain Definition
  • MultiLineString Definition
  • Attribute Help Text Definition

Meta Model of Meta Modelling Language: Facets

Correlation Attribute Type <-> Attribute Facet

 

Attribute Domain Definition

Definition

AttrDomainDef : DomainHead { DomainInterval }
DomainHead : DOMAIN message:"domainMessage"
DomainInterval : INTERVAL lowerbound:lowerBoundValue upperbound:upperBoundValue


Examples

FACET attributenumericdomain
VALUE "LAYOUT decimals:2"

FACET attributenumericdomain
VALUE "DOMAIN
       message:\"Enter a value between 0.25 (quarter of an hour) and 20.\"
       INTERVAL
       lowerbound:0.25
       upperbound:20.0"

FACET attributenumericdomain
VALUE "DOMAIN
       message:\"The valid Value Range of the Attribute lies between 0 and 100 and between 1000 and 1100."
       INTERVAL
       lowerbound:0
       upperbound:100
       INTERVAL
       lowerbound:1000
       upperbound:1100 "

 

Regular Expression Definition

Definition

RegExpDef : RegExpHead
RegExpHead : REGEXP
message
:" regExpMessage"
expression:"regularExpression"


Example

FACET <AttributeRegularExpression>
VALUE "REGEXP
message:\"Enter the time in the format MM.YYYY (Domain 01.1950 to 12.2050).\"
expression:\"^(0[1-9]|1[0-2])\\.(19[5-9][0-9]|20[0-5][0-9])$\" "

FACET <AttributeRegularExpression>
VALUE "REGEXP
message:\"That is not a valid e-mail address!\"
expression:\".*@.*\" "

FACET <AttributeRegularExpression>
VALUE "REGEXP
message:\"Input data in format 'DD.MM.YYYY'.\"
expression:\"^()$|^((((0[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-9]).(0[1-9]|10|11|12))|(30.(01|0[3-9]|10|11|12))|
(31.(01|03|05|07|08|10|12))).[0-2][0-9][0-9][0-9]${10})\"  "

 

InterRef Domain Definition

Definition

InterRefDomainDef : [ DomainHead ]{ ModRefDomain } | { InstRefDomain }
DomainHead : REFDOMAIN
  [ max:totalMaxValue ]
ModRefDomain : MODREF
  mt
:"modelTypeName"
  [ max:maxValue ]
InstRefDomain : OBJREF
  mt
:"modelTypeName"
  c:"className"
  [ max:maxValue ]

 

Examples

FACET <AttributeInterRefDomain>
VALUE "REFDOMAIN
OBJREF
     mt:"My ModelType"
     c:"MyModelClass"
    max:1 "
 
FACET <AttributeInterRefDomain>
VALUE "REFDOMAIN max:1
MODREF
     mt:\"Knowledge Management Process Model\" "
 
FACET <AttributeInterRefDomain>
VALUE "REFDOMAIN max: 100
OBJREF
     mt:"MyFirstModelType\"
     c:"MyClassInMyFirstModelType"
max: 50
OBJREF
     mt:"MySecondModelType"
     c:"MyClassInMySecondModelType"
max: 50 "
 

 

Enumeration Domain Definition

Definition

ITEM itemText [ param:varName:defaultText ] [ fdlg-filterX:filterExt fdlg-typeX:filterName ] AdoScript

Example

FACET <EnumerationDomain>
VALUE "value-1@value-2@value-3@value-n"

 

MultiLineString Definition

Definition

The attribute-facet 'MultiLineString' (only for attributes of type STRING) specifies whether the text field for the string has a single line (VALUE 0) or several lines (VALUE 1).

The text field allows entering 3700 symbols maximum. In the attribute 'name' entering 255 symbols maximum is possible. A text field with more lines owns scroll-bars in the notebook and can be enlarged to screen size 640x480 by an enlarging button.

Example

FACET <MultiLineString>
VALUE 0
 
FACET <MultiLineString>
VALUE 1

 

Attribute Help Text Definition

Definition

The attribute facet 'AttributeHelpText' defines an i-Button (on the right top of the text field), where the info-text (defined in 'VALUE') is deposited.

Example

FACET <AttributeHelpText>
VALUE "You can change the language from English to German and/or vice versa."
 

Meta-Data Definition

Attributes can be defined and provided with a descriptive default value. They should not be provided in the "Notebook" to prevent the user from changing these, making them only accessible through processing.

ATTRIBUTE <Application>
TYPE STRING
VALUE „All objects of this aggregation belong together and must be considered as a grup by all functions.  "
 
FACET <MultiLineString>
VALUE 1
 
FACET <AttributeHelpText>
VALUE "Enter a description for documentation purposes."
 
FACET <AttributeRegularExpression>
VALUE ""
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