SDMetrics User Manual - Attribute "relset"

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8.1.1.2 Attribute "relset"

Instead of relations, you can also feed element sets into the projection. For example, packages have a multi-valued attribute "ownedmembers" in the UML2 metamodel. We can count the number of elements in that set as follows:

<metric name="NumMembers" domain="package"> 
  <description>The number of owned members of the package.</description>
  <projection relset="ownedmembers" />
</metric>

Sources for sets can be

multi-valued attributes of model elements,
user-defined sets. These will be discussed in Section 8.2 "Definition of Sets".

Attribute "relset" defines a set expression (see Section 8.5.3 "Set Expressions") which is evaluated for the current element. The metric then counts the number of elements in that set.

For a projection, exactly one of the attributes "relation" or "relset" must be specified.

Section 8.1.1.1 "Attribute "relation""

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