- Add instantiateAnnotationsRecursive(IModelElement element)

org.fortiss.tooling.base/trunk/src/org/fortiss/tooling/base/utils/AnnotationUtils.java

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ $Id$
 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
 package org.fortiss.tooling.base.utils;
 
+import static org.fortiss.tooling.kernel.utils.EcoreUtils.getChildrenWithType;
 import static org.fortiss.tooling.kernel.utils.EcoreUtils.getEClassForClass;
 import static org.fortiss.tooling.kernel.utils.EcoreUtils.getParentsWithType;
 import static org.fortiss.tooling.kernel.utils.EcoreUtils.pickFirstInstanceOf;
@@ -27,6 +28,8 @@ import org.eclipse.emf.common.util.BasicEList;
 import org.eclipse.emf.common.util.EList;
 import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EClass;
 import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.util.EcoreUtil;
+import org.fortiss.tooling.base.annotation.IAnnotationValueService;
+import org.fortiss.tooling.base.decompose.HierarchicElementCompositorBase;
 import org.fortiss.tooling.base.model.element.IAnnotatedSpecification;
 import org.fortiss.tooling.base.model.element.IModelElement;
 import org.fortiss.tooling.kernel.extension.data.ITopLevelElement;
@@ -38,7 +41,7 @@ import org.fortiss.tooling.kernel.service.IPersistencyService;
  * @author diewald
  * @author $Author$
  * @version $Rev$
- * @ConQAT.Rating GREEN Hash: 727464C60F865D4C9D5ACEDA3A6F4561
+ * @ConQAT.Rating YELLOW Hash: 2CBB6FE26D2ACA2DC628D90CB72A9D3D
  */
 public class AnnotationUtils {
 
@@ -66,6 +69,23 @@ public class AnnotationUtils {
 		return newAnnotation;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Recursively instantiates the annotations for a given {@link IModelElement} and its offspring.
+	 * This is useful to ensure that all annotations are available for programmatically created
+	 * models. While the {@link HierarchicElementCompositorBase} could be used to ensure the
+	 * instantiation of annotations in model-transformations, too, this is not always possible (or
+	 * convenient).
+	 * 
+	 * @param element
+	 *            {@link IModelElement} for which annotations should be instantiated recursively.
+	 */
+	public static void instantiateAnnotationsRecursive(IModelElement element) {
+		IAnnotationValueService.INSTANCE.instantiateAnnotations(element);
+		for(IModelElement child : getChildrenWithType(element, IModelElement.class)) {
+			IAnnotationValueService.INSTANCE.instantiateAnnotations(child);
+		}
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * <p>
 	 * Returns the annotation of a given {@code Class<T>} from a given {@code modelElement}. If the