PI87845: CAPTURE ERROR MESSAGE WHILE FOUND DUPLICATE ELEMENTS IN DOORS WHILE EXPORT.

IBM Rational Rhapsody 8.3.0

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• When the exported module contains two objects with the same
  Element Guid and Element Type values, the export to DOORS fails
  on the line highlighted.
  
  void deleteObject(Object anObject) {
       LinkRef lr
       for lr in anObject <- "*" do {
             logError("Failure: DOORS Object "
  identifier(anObject) " '" anObject."Object Heading" "' has
  in-links, so it can not be deleted. Remove the in-links from
  DOORS in order to allow Object deletion")
             return
       }
       softDelete(anObject)
  }
  
  The reason is that it gets confused with the two objects and it
  tries to delete the first object twice.
  
  Here is a piece of customer script that contains the duplicate
  deletion:
  
  find(objectsForInts, 504015072, objCurrent)
  if (!null objCurrent) {
  deleteObject(objCurrent)
  } else logError("Failure: Can't delete object 'GUID
  bbd623c0-a98b-41e1-a957-d420431933f7'")
  find(objectsForInts, 504021088, objCurrent)
  if (!null objCurrent) {
  deleteObject(objCurrent)
  } else logError("Failure: Can't delete object 'GUID
  bbd623c0-a98b-41e1-a957-d420431933f7'")
  
  The problem is that softDelete error is not caught , so there is
  no clear error message that comes up.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:                                              *
  * Rhapsody                                                     *
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  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
  * CAPTURE ERROR MESSAGE WHILE FOUND DUPLICATE ELEMENTS IN      *
  * DOORS WHILE EXPORT.                                          *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  ****************************************************************
  

Problem conclusion

• Improved error handling for deleteObject function.
  Since the error was actually not happening with recent version
  but the behavior was not correct since it tries to delete both
  duplicated objects instead of removing just one of them.
  Now it shows a warning message in case there are duplicate GUIDs
  in source document or exported DOORS module.
  

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

• R761 PSY

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