Sql Developer Data Modeler 3.0 EA2: Custom Rules

Question

Hi,
I'm trying to write a validation rule that checks that all tables in a relational model exist in at least one subview. However, I can't seem to find a method that gives me a list of the subviews, is there one?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Philip,
From what you wrote it seems like the simplest way to perform this validation would be to loop
through the entities and for each call getAffectedDPVs(). Then loop through the DesignPartViews
and invoke isMainDiagram() on those. If the only references are on the main diagram then this
would be the type of 'error' I'm looking for.
However when I call getAffectedDPVs() on an entity I get an undefined object in Javascript/Rhino.
The following produces a dialog in which the views.length is displayed as 'undefined'
entities = model.getEntitySet().toArray();
for (var i = 0; i<entities.length; i++){
entity = entities [ i ];
views = entity.getAffectedDPVs();
optionPane = JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Examining entity: " + entity.getName() + " " + views.length);
So I tried to follow the second thread you mentioned.
I was able to use
subViews = model.getDesign().getLogicalDesign().getLogicalDesignSubviews().toArray();
to get a list of the SubViews in the Logical model.
However it is not clear what class of object this method returns. I didn't find anything called a SubView or LogicalDesignSubview.
In addition I didn't find any class which has methods such as getModel(), getTVEntities(), getTVRelations(), etc.
The datamodeler/xmlmetadata/doc/details.html documentation seems to be very incomplete.
In addition you make mention of 'if you look at defiinition of DesighPartView'...
There are no definitions in the details.html file as shipped with the product. There are just lists of properties, getters, setters, etc.
In addition, whenever a method is described as returning a collection of some type (list, set, collection) it is not clear what class
is contained within the collection.
Does your team have plans to produce/release standard Javadocs for these classes at some point in the future?
I think it would help a lot to let people exploit the scripting feature and reduce the amount of questions you receive on these forums.
Rgds, BP