How to retrieve entry/exit/do property from state operations

Question

I want to use the Automation Interface of Enterprise Architect (EA) to generate code from my StateMachine diagram according to my company's StateMachine framework.

With each state I want to know exactly it's operation is Entry or Exit action. Please refer to the images for more detail.

I use below code snippet (C#) to get the action type of method, but it's seem to have no way to do that.

    private void getElement(EA.Repository repository)
    {
        //repository.OpenDiagram(6);
        EA.Diagram currentDiagram = repository.GetCurrentDiagram();

        var objs = currentDiagram.DiagramObjects;
        for (short obj_i = 0; obj_i < objs.Count; ++obj_i )
        {
            EA.Element elem = repository.GetElementByID(objs.GetAt(obj_i));
            if(elem.Name == "State") //get only the state elments
            {
                var stateMethodList = elem.Methods;
                for(short mt_i = 0; mt_i < stateMethodList.Count; ++mt_i)
                {
                    EA.Method mt = stateMethodList.GetAt(mt_i);
                    EA.Parameter parameter = mt.Parameters.GetAt(index);  //we can get the method's parameters using the EA.Method.Parameters attribute
                    string returnType = mt.ReturnType;                    //we can get the method's return type using EA.Method.ReturnType attribute

                    //I want to get method's action type but the mt seems to be the common method type, and have no attribute name EA.Method.Actions and something like that.
                }
            }
        }

    }

I spend a lot of time to find the action type of method, but haven't found it yet.

qwerty_so · Answer 1 · 2017-04-12T09:47:43.197

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mt.returntype will be either do, entry or exit.

edited Apr 12 '17 at 09:47

answered Apr 12 '17 at 08:25

qwerty_so

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I did that also, but mt.Stereotype returned empty string. :( – van con Nguyen Apr 12 '17 at 09:43
Uups. That was in my mind. I check it and corrected the answer. – qwerty_so Apr 12 '17 at 09:48
Great, it's OK now. thank you so much, I have tried all the attributes of EA.Method but not ReturnType. I want to give you one vote but it requires me to have 15 reputations to do that. – van con Nguyen Apr 12 '17 at 09:54

How to retrieve entry/exit/do property from state operations

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