public interface ProfileProvider
This interface is used to determine the stereotypes of a specific model element. These stereotypes are used to map a model element to a metatype defined in a profile.
Each metamodel may provide its own implementation of this interface.
The concept of stereotype name is neutral here: UML metamodel implementation will consider the stereotype feature, but a metamodel implementation
may map this concept to any arbitrary feature, as long as the feature can be represented with a String value.
Clients may implement this interface.
| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
|---|---|
String[] |
getStereotypeNames(MDWObject object)
Determines the stereotype names attached to a model element.
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String[] getStereotypeNames(MDWObject object)
The concept of stereotype name is neutral here: UML metamodel implementation will consider the stereotype feature, but a metamodel
implementation may map this concept to any arbitrary feature, as long as the feature can be represented with a String value.
The implementation should be fast and lightweight, as this method will be called a lot of time (each time a method or a script is called on a model element).
If no stereotype is attached to the model element, then it is recommended to return null instead of an empty array, for
performance consideration (avoids to create unused empty arrays).
object - the model element we want to determine the stereotypes.null if no stereotype is attached to the model element.