Association between three classes

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I have the following situation/ model:

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I have a Player class which has a Color and a Figure. Quite simple. But now I want to give the Figure an association to the Color:

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Now I'm looking for a way to force the Figure to have the same Color as the Player. Perhaps I'm missing something very obvious, but I don't have any idea how to do it. Is there any OCL expression?

I'm using Magic Draw.

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited May 10 '23 at 04:33

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You can use a ternary association. UML supports N-ary associations. See here.

Also, here is a YouTube video about drawing ternary associations in MagicDraw.

edited May 10 '23 at 04:33

Mehdi Charife

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answered Jul 16 '12 at 15:43

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score 2 · Answer 2 · edited May 18 '13 at 03:22

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Let Color be an associationClass between the others, so that for every two instances of them, there is a single instance of color, which is what you want.

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Cairnarvon

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answered May 18 '13 at 03:02

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 16 '12 at 15:09

"Figure to have the same Color as the Player"

This is, usually, not handled as a direct association, but, indirectly, by the Player class & its associations.

Its valid to have a "Color" property in "Figure", and add a restriction, that is modeled as a O.C.L. comment / note.

Association between three classes

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