PI77000: PROBLEM REGARDING THE BEHAVIOR OF GENERATEIMPLICITCONSTRUCTORS PROPERTY

IBM Rational Rhapsody 8.2.1

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Detailed issues as below.
  Customer does not want  Rhapsody to generate  default
  constructors.
  Therefore he set the following properties in site.prp
  ·         Property GenerateImplicitConstructors Bool "False"
  As a result, when a class has ports, the ports pointers are not
  initialized to NULL.
  (e.g. Comp_1::p_C::p_C() : _p_(0) {
      itsI_Comp2 = NULL;
  } is not being generated.
  So this is not expected , as they want port to be initialized.
  If the GenerateImplicitConstructors  set to "True" then the
  proper code is being generated, but Rhapsody generates the
  implicit constructors for all classes.
  So If  set GenerateImplicitConstructors  to "False"  on the
  class or package level,and set the  property
  GenerateImplicitConstructors is set to "True" in Project level
  then the code is generated correctly.
  
  But here the problem is , they have to do it for all the classes
  in order to ignore generation of default constructor and
  generation of Port initialization.
  
  So the question here is Why when GenerateImplicitConstructors is
  set to False on class and package level, Port initialization is
  generated but when the property is set at the configuration,
  component or project level port initialization is not properly
  generated.
  This seems to be broken here .
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:                                              *
  * Rhapsody                                                     *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
  * The property GenerateImplicitConstructors don't effect the   *
  * class generated for port when it is overridden on class or   *
  * package, instead the property is taken from the project.     *
  * as a result it is not possible to change the property to     *
  * false on project level because it cause port generation      *
  * without constructor                                          *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  ****************************************************************
  

Problem conclusion

• problem fixed,
  by causing the class generated for the port to have constructor
  regardless od the property
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  TLOGIC RHAPSODY

• Fixed component ID

  5724V74RP

Applicable component levels

• R814 PSN

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