Create links with a very simply script

Hello,

I am not a very good user in DXL. And I'like to create links running a very simply script

Actually, I have 3 modules Module, A and Module B, and a likModule "verifies" .

• In Module X, I have Object A, Object B, Object C, and a LinkModule "verifies"

• In Module Y, I have Object 1, Object 2, Object 3

Re: Create links with a very simply script
Mathias Mamsch - Mon Jul 19 09:03:11 EDT 2010

Actually I have a similar script, which I run in conjunction with some other scripts to do link manipulations on a very low level. A nice idea (at least I think so), is that you just copy/paste the links from excel into a DXL dialog, and from there the script processes them. This way you don't have to put together some weird DXL from your Excel all the time (been there, done that).

Unfortunately this script uses the set.inc for splitting up the strings (by newline for the lines and then all the values by tabs). One line in the Excel is to have the following format:

Source_Module_Path | Source_Absolute_Number | Source Baseline | Direction (IN or OUT) | link_module_path | target_module_path | target_Absolute_Number | target_Baseline

Baselines are not yet implemented. All you would need to do is to replace the Set type by a function that will split up a string into a string array. Unfortunately I have no time to do it right now. Maybe someone else wants to do it?

Regards, Mathias

#include <../lib/std/set.inc>
 
DB x = centered "Links paste pls"
 
DBE txt = text (x, "Paste the links:", "", 300,300,false) 
 
block x
release x
 
Set lines = split(get txt, "\n")
 
string sLine 
 
for sLine in getSkip lines do {
    print "Processing line:" sLine "\n"
    Set val = split(sLine, "\t")
    if (count val > 6) {
        string dir = val[4]
        
        if (dir == "IN") { print "skipping in link.\n"; continue }
    
        string sSrc = val[0]
        int iNrSrc = intOf realOf (val[1] string)
        
        string linkMod = val[5]
        
        string sDst = val[6]
        int iNrDst = intOf realOf (val[7] string)
        
        print "Drawing link from " sSrc " object " iNrSrc " to " sDst " object " iNrDst "\n"
        Module mSrc = edit (sSrc, true)
        Module mDst = read (sDst, true)
        
        if (null mSrc || null mDst) {
           print "we are module seriously hosed ...."
           print "Source:" sSrc "\n"
           print "Dest:" sDst "\n"
           continue
        }
        
        Object oSrc = object(iNrSrc, mSrc)
        Object oDst = object(iNrDst, mDst)
        if (null oSrc || null oDst) {
            print "we are seriously hosed ...."
        } else {
            if (!null linkMod) 
                oSrc -> linkMod -> oDst
            else
                oSrc -> oDst
        }
    }
}

Mathias Mamsch, IT-QBase GmbH, Consultant for Requirement Engineering and D00RS

Re: Create links with a very simply script
JeanMi - Mon Jul 19 12:05:42 EDT 2010

Re: Create links with a very simply script
adevicq - Mon Jul 19 12:24:06 EDT 2010

Bonjour Jean-Michel,

To link two objects o1 and o2 through the link module "My Link Module", you must write the following instruction:
 

o1->"My Link Module"->o2

Assuming that o1 is the source of the link and o2 is the target.
Alain

Re: Create links with a very simply script
rmoskwa - Mon Jul 19 12:28:26 EDT 2010