fUML, Papyrus and Basic Operations - eclipse

We aim to execute fUML specifications written in Papyrus using the fUML reference implementation. This has not been challenging since an UML model containing a single Class diagram and one or more Activity Diagrams can be directly executed by calling the fUML constructor:
new Fuml(File);
However, it is difficult to specify complex behaviors without basic Integer operations. For example, 'equals', 'greater'...
I am aware that there is some library of such functions that can be selected using OpaqueBehaviors. Therefore, my question is: where and how can those such "basic operations" be found?

Sorry, this question was just pointed out to me recently. But, in case you haven't figured it out yet, I do have an answer for you.
The library you are looking for is the Foundational Model Library, which contains packages such as IntegerFunctions, BooleanFunctions, etc. The normative fUML specification includes a standard XMI file for this library (at http://www.omg.org/spec/FUML/20121019/fUML_Library.xmi, for fUML 1.1). However, to use the library in Papyrus, you need an Eclipse .uml version.
If you want, you can convert the normative XMI yourself: Download the file and open it in the Eclipse UML Editor (not Papyrus). Select File > Save As and save the file with a .uml extension (fUML_Library.uml). You should then be able to import this .uml file into Papyrus and reference the functions in it from your activity models. As long as you maintain the normative element IDs from the original XMI file, the reference implementation will know that these are standard library functions, for which it has built-in implementations.
However, there is actually a .uml version of this library already available for Papyrus. It is included with the additional Moka Model Execution component for Papyrus. If you install this component, then the fUML model library becomes available as a "registered library" that you can import into your model and use as above.
Note that Moka also includes an fUML execution engine that you can use to execute activity models directly within Papyrus (see https://wiki.eclipse.org/Papyrus/UserGuide/ModelExecution). However, any models created in Papyrus that can be executed with Moka can also be executed externally from Papyrus using the reference implementation, just as you have done before.

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How to inherit attributes in class/block diagram using Eclipse Papyrus?

I'm creating a very simple class diagram using the Eclipse Papyrus but I'm not able to represent instances correctly.
First of all, I'm using the SysML 1.6 profile, so my classes are actually represented in a Block Diagram instead of classes, but I believe that this does not change anything in my problem.
After creating a simple class/block in my block definition diagram (bdd) I defined some attributes for my block like the example below:
When I tried to create some instances of my block ("parts" in SysML naming convention) using an "Instance Specification" I'm not able to inherit these attributes and fill them with actual information like the "name" and "quantity" in this example.
It's possible to see that my classifier is correctly set as "My component".
The Papyrus documentation for the Object diagram is clear and says that these Instance Specification should include my attributes so I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
I've tried since now:
Create instances in the same block diagram (bdd);
Create instances in another dedicated diagram of the type internal block definition (ibd);
Use the Papyrus context menu to show/hide all my compartments. Any of them works to show my attributes.
Apparently, the same problem occurs without any SysML profile and using pure UML like this question here (from 2016!!)
Papyrus version: 6.1.0

VSCode ANTLR4 Plugin: Export Call Graph to JSON?

The vscode-antlr4 plugin for VisualStudio Code has a nice call-graph feature which visualizes (as a dendrogram) how grammar (and lexer) rules interact. You can save the graphic as SVG.
Is there a way to export the information as JSON? I wouldn't mind going into the plugin's code to find a way to do it.
My aim is to create reachability graphs for individual rules, i.e. graphs that show from which other rules a particular rule can be reached (transitively). The "calls" and "is-called" information from the call-graph feature would be a nice starting point.
The data for the call graph comes from a source context instance (for each grammar file there's a single source context to manage all details for it). See the function getReferenceGraph, which collects the relations into a map object. You can use that object to generate a JSON object from it. Or you create another function, taking this one as template, to generate the JSON directly, without the overhead required for the UI.

Generate code from Use Case Diagram creates lots of empty classes

In a Papyrus Model, I clicked the Use Case Diagram (which is quite simple - contains about 5 use-cases), and selected "Designer -> Generate Java Code".
In response, I got hundreds of new packages, each of which contains hundreds of empty classes, with strange names such as "Aaixixnrpr", "Aclywqwwlr", etc...
What is happening?!
Papyrus SW designer does not have a particular code generation support for "use case" elements, i.e. it will treat an Actor or a Use Case just as a UML class. This means that it will create an empty Java class, unless you add operations/opaque behaviors.
But the Java code generator should not create classes for elements that are not in the model. Can you please double check via the model explorer that elements such as "Aaixixnrpr" do not exist in the model?
Which version are you using? (I recommend to use version 1.0.5 from this update site on an Eclipse oxygen). Btw, I also recommend to use the Papyrus forum for questions like this.

how to run the example of uima-text-segmenter?

I want to call the API of uima-text-segmenter https://code.google.com/p/uima-text-segmenter/source/browse/trunk/INSTALL?r=22 to run an example.
But I don`t know how to call the API...
the readme said,
With the DocumentAnalyzer, run the following descriptor
`desc/textSegmenter/wst-snowball-C99-JTextTilingAAE.xml` by taking the
uima-examples data as input.
Could anyone give me some code which could be run directly in main func for example?
Thanks a lot!
Long answer:
The link describes how you would set up the application from within the Eclipse UIMA environment. This sort of set-up is typically targeted at subject matter specialists with little or no coding experience. It allows them to work (relatively fast) with UIMA in a declarative way: all data structures and analysis engines (computing blocks within UIMA) are declared in xml (with a GUI on top of it), after which the framework takes care of the rest. In this scenario, you would typically run a UIMA pipeline using a run configuration from within Eclipse (or the included UIMA pipeline runner application). Luckily, UIMA allows you to do exactly the same from code, but I would recommend using UIMAFit (http://uima.apache.org/d/uimafit-current/tools.uimafit.book.html#d5e137) for this purpose instead of of UIMA, as it bundles lots of useful things and coding shortcuts.
Short answer:
Using UIMAFit, you can call Factory methods that create CollectionReader (read input), AnalysisEngine (process input) and Consumer objects (write/do other stuff) from (third-party provided) XML files. Use these methods to construct your pipeline and the SimplePipeline class to run it. To extract the data you need, you would manipulate the CAS object (containing your data) in a Consumer object, possibly with a callback. You could also do this in a Analysis Engine object. I recommend using DKPro's FeaturePathFactory (https://code.google.com/p/dkpro-core-asl/source/browse/de.tudarmstadt.ukp.dkpro.core-asl/trunk/de.tudarmstadt.ukp.dkpro.core.api.featurepath-asl/src/main/java/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/dkpro/core/api/featurepath/FeaturePathFactory.java?spec=svn1811&r=1811) to quickly access the feature you are after.
Code examples:
http://uima.apache.org/d/uimafit-current/tools.uimafit.book.html#d5e137 contains examples, but they all go in the opposite direction (class objects are used in the factory methods, instead of XML files - XML is generated from these classes). Take a look at the UIMAFit API to find the method you need, AnalysisEngineDescription from XML for example: http://uima.apache.org/d/uimafit-current/api/org/apache/uima/fit/factory/AnalysisEngineFactory.html#createEngineDescriptionFromPath-java.lang.String-java.lang.Object...-

How to use xtext and xpand togheter

I have a rather silly question. I am using xtext to define a simple dsl and Xpand to generate code.
Now I want to use xpand to read my dsl models and generate code. How can i do that?
I read lot of tutorials saying that I can simple do that by creating a new xtext project from the wizard. Then, among others, the following project will be created:
org.xtext.example.domainmodel.generator.
And inside, the generator looks like this:
src
model (place the dsl model)
templates (place the template for the code generator)
workflow (workflow file)
Then i simple run the workflow and generate the code from the dsl file. That s straightforwards and easy.
My problem is that when I create a new xtext project I dont get the org.xtext.example.domainmodel.generator. project. I only have the following four:
org.xtext.example.domainmodel
org.xtext.example.domainmodel.sdk
org.xtext.example.domainmodel.tests
org.xtext.example.domainmodel.ui
So how can i produce the org.xtext.example.domainmodel.generator file???
Which tutorials do you mean? (links please) And do they really talk about a generator project? Talking about the package org.xtext.example.domainmodel.generator inside the org.xtext.example.domainmodel project is the usual thing.
Probably not relevant to the original person who asked this :) but I had a similar problem and the reason was that in my grammar extended xbase.
When extending xbase building the mwe2 skips the generator stub generation and uses the xbase code generation which is generated instead (the antlr parser, serializer etc.)