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From: Andrea Turbati <turbati@info.uniroma2.it>
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Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 15:21:08 +0200
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Yes, I've looked the source code and it seems to me that it should works 
only for Arrays . Is there no other way to see the the Type contained in 
a FSList ?

Thanks,

Andrea

Il 11/07/2016 13:55, Richard Eckart de Castilho ha scritto:
> Sounds like it may be a bug. The TypeSystemUtil.feature2FeatureDescription() method seems to set elementType only for array-type features and only if the elementType is not TOP.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Richard
>
>> On 11.07.2016, at 12:50, Andrea Turbati <turbati@info.uniroma2.it> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> is there a way to access the type of a FSList from the TypeSystem?
>> I've tried with the following code:
>>
>> FeatureDescription featureDescription = TypeSystemUtil.feature2FeatureDescription(feature);
>> String typeStringOfList = featureDescription.getElementType();
>>
>> but I always get a null in the variable typeStringOfList, even if the description of such method is:
>>
>> "For a feature with a range type that is an array or list, gets the expected type of the elements of that array or list. This is optional; if ommitted the array or list can contain any type. There is currently no guarantee that the framework will enforce this type restriction. This property should not be set for features whose range type is not an array or list."
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your feedback,
>>
>> Andrea
>


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