cpp2xmi

Goals

• Experiment with UML,MOF with the OMF
• Reverse engineer C++-Code to UML
• special: reverse-engineer c-language structs for Message formats

Parsing

With OCC-Core there is a C++-Parser.

There are two possibilities to do the parsing:

• Use the Analyser-library and map this structure to OMF
• Only use the parser-library und use the OMF as internal structure

I decided to go the second way to make experience with the parser.

Experience

The used Version of Opencxx/occ-core has the following problems:

• In the declarations the pointer * belongs to the name and not to the type
• The comments are not related to the declarator, the comments of the class are all comments in the class body.
• The syntax tree of the parser is still botton up.
  The concrete Walker has to build up abstractions.

The opencxx - idea is to translate c++-source to c++-source, and do things. For round-trip-engineering like IBM/Rational Rose does, this ideas suite together. But in this state, my cpp2xmi is far away form that.

Open questions

How to map the C++-Constructs pointer and typedef ?

The typedef is currently mapped to a class with a Stereotype typedef.

How to find types (buildin and self defined) ?

In the UML standard (2.0/2.1) there is no API defined how to search an named element in a namespace. (May be I'm wrong ?)
Currently, nothing is done.

Download

• Please regard the copyrights of the opencxx/OCC and the OMF
• My work is under GPL
• Currently, the state is trying and experimental.
• cpp2xmi-0_1.tgz