Multiplicity typo in SimDM

[Hervé Wozniak]

Hello Kristin,

Thanks for pointing out these issues. I'm preparing an erratum for the 
next interop. It's the good time to discuss these points!

All the best,
Hervé


Le 23/05/2017 à 11:21, Kristin Riebe a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> when looking at SimDM at implementing it (well, parts of it) for our
> simulations, I realized that one of the multiplicities in the UML
> diagram (and its description) at
> http://www.ivoa.net/documents/SimDM/20120503/html/SimDM.html
> is not correct.
> 
> The multiplicity for the composition relation from InputDataset to
> InputDataObject is given as 0..1 (at the end), but it should be 0..*. 1
> 
> Each InputDataset can consist of 0 to many InputDataObjects (and each of
> them has a reference to 1 DataObject).
> That's also what the annotation to InputDataset.object says:
> "Collection of object associations that identify explicitly which
> objects from a collection of objects are used as input data in an
> experiment."
> I had discussed this already with Gerard, and he agrees that this is a typo.
> 
> Since these classes and their multiplicities are not explicitly
> mentioned in the standard document, could someone please just correct
> the vodml-version and re-generate the html-description and diagram? Or
> is a minor version update/erratum needed for this?
> 
> Cheers,
> Kristin
> 
> 
> P.S.:
> In the diagram at
> http://www.ivoa.net/documents/SimDM/20120503/uml/SimDM_DM.png (I guess
> this is a direct export from MagicDraw?), there is no multiplicity given
> and thus it probably defaults to 0..1 and thus the auto-generated
> diagram and description at
> http://www.ivoa.net/documents/SimDM/20120503/html/SimDM.html contain the
> 0..1.
> 
> 
> P.P.S: There are also still some "TODO" flags in annotations to some
> classes, maybe these could be filled with some meaningful text as well.
> (e.g. ObjectCollection, OutputDataset, all attributes of DataObject)
> 
> 

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