Minor GI Issue

[Tim Turner <tjt@lsc.co.uk>]

Rob,

 

I think this is perhaps a (minor) issue against the Graphical Instance implementation?

 

If I create a template which has an input parameter set to a specific express entity type (which exists within a subtype - supertype express hierarchy), I would expect that GI would respect this constraint on the allowable entities that can be assigned to that parameter. Instead, it appears to provide the supertype by default and ignores the type constraint specified on the input parameter list.

 

For example, if I were to specify Part as the type of a parameter I would expect to see Part (or Part + any subtypes) in the GI model during population. Instead it gives me Product and all the subtypes of Product, including Part, Document and all the other subtypes.

 

Representing_document_history is an exmple on dexlib at present. You can see that the parameters specifically state that two document_versions are to be used as the input parameter types, yet GI  provides Product_version..

 

regards,

Tim

 

 

 

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