Umple E009 Reflexive Lower Bound
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E009 Reflexive Lower Bound
Umple semantic error reported when a reflexive association has a multiplicity with a lower bound greater than one
A reflexive association must have multiplicity with lower bounds of zero at both ends (e.g. *, 0.1 or or 0..2), otherwise an illogical situation would result. For example, creating a parent-child association on class Person (the example below) with a lower bound of 2 would mean that every Person in the system must have parents, ad infinitum.
Example
- // This example generates the error message
- class Person {
- * -- 2 Person parents;
- }
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Solution to The Above So the Message No Longer Appears
- // The following shows how to avoid the error
- class Person {
- * -- 0..2 Person parents;
- }
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