MDR Explorer

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Introduction

MDR explorer is an extensible platform for providing information about metadata stored in the MetaData Repository. By default it provides Reflective Look and MOF Model Look. The new looks can be added by other modules such as mdrxml module, which provides looks for XML model.

Using MDR Explorer

MDR Explorer is opened in menu View / MDR Browser. New browser containing MDRManager and all repositories is created. The sub nodes of repository depends on selected look.

MDR Explorer Screenshot
The number of displayed sub nodes can be limited in Tools/Options/MDR/MDR Explorer, in this case only the number of sub nodes is shown and the rest of sub nodes is shown when expanding the rest node. The value -1 means unlimited.

Reflective Look

Reflective View can be applied on each packageproxy (extent) by selecting Look/Reflective View from its pop up menu.

Reflective Look provides following nodes.

  1. Packageproxy (Extent) Node represents packageproxy in repository and provides following actions:
  2. Class Node represents Class object in the MDR and provides this action:
  3. Instance Node represents instance object and provides these actions:
  4. Reference Node represents references of object
  5. Association Node represents association and provides properties action.
  6. Association End Node represents association end
  7. Association End Instance Node represents end of association link and provides these actions:
  8. Other Association End Instance Node represents the other end of this association link and has these actions:

MOF Model View

MOF Model View can be applied on packageproxy (extent) which is instance of MOF metamodel by selecting Look/Model View from its pop up menu.

MOF Model Look provides following nodes.

  1. Packageproxy (Extent) Node represents packageproxy in repository and provides following actions:
  2. ModelElement Node represents MOF model element instance and provides these actions: