"OperatorSelector does not work with Macro Definition"

steffen
steffen New Altair Community Member
edited November 5 in Community Q&A
Hello

Using OperatorSelector with MacroDefiniton I got an NumberFormatError. Diving into the code I found that you have fixed the problem of Integer-Parameters-do-not-use-macros, but not problem of the MacroHandler itself: (i.e. it also occurs in the Zaniah Branch)

Since OperatorSelector try to access the macro BEFORE the process is executed, it gets an error since this macros have not been defined yet. At this step, MacroHandler has only access to predefined macros, the Map "macroMap" is empty. I choose not to add a note in the bugtracker, because this is a quite architectural (does this word exist) problem which may affect other operators, too.

affected methods of OperatorSelector
  • getInputClasses()
  • getOutputClasses()
  • getInnerOperatorCondition()
...maybe you are already aware of this problem ;)

regards,

Steffen

Answers

  • land
    land New Altair Community Member
    Hi Steffen,
    thank you for this detailed description. It made it easy for me to identify the problem in the code and at the first glance it feels like there should be a clean solution for this. But since, as you said, this is quite architectural, I will discuss it with the other deveolpers.

    By the way: Zaniah has now become the stable branch.

    Greetings,
      Sebastian
  • keith
    keith New Altair Community Member
    I just ran into this problem myself today, using RM 4.4 Enterprise.  Did this ever get fixed or is there a workaround?

    Thanks,
    Keith

  • IngoRM
    IngoRM New Altair Community Member
    Hi,

    this issue is fixed now (and should also have been part of the latest EE update).

    Cheers,
    Ingo