Redeclared models "loose" their connectors

[Christian Kral <dr.christian.kral@…>]

Please consider the model attached to this ticket. Each of the second connector of ComponentA and ComponentB is created through extends of a single connector class BaseConnectorA and BaseConnectorB, respectively, and adding an additional connector.

In the example model ExampleAB a base class is used. componentA and componentB}} are redeclared from the base class model by {{{ComponentA and ComponentB, respectively. In the example modelel ExampleAB the two extended connectors do not appear. When checking the model OpenModelica complains:

Scripting Error
Unable to find component componentA.port_b while parsing 
connection {componentA.port_b,componentB.port_a, ""}.

However, the model simulates without problems. Nevertheless this kind of configurations seems to be problematic, as a more complex variant of this applications refuses to compile in OpenModelica... However, the two "missing" connectors are shown in the result variable browser.

[Christian Kral <dr.christian.kral@…>]

Example demonstrating the "lost" connetors

[Christian Kral <dr.christian.kral@…>]

The described issue refers to

OMEdit 1.12.0~dev-154-g354a8d1
Connected to OpenModelica 1.12.0~dev-321-g9addb54
Linux Mint 18.1 64bit

[Adrian Pop]

This mostly happens because OMEdit considers classes without the component/extends/type modifiers that are given in the top model.
We are working on a new front-end to handle redeclares better and also provide OMEdit with a component instance that can be queried to get the correct information.