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[protege-discussion] Metaclass mismatch resulting from drag and drop
Richard Dunlap
rdunlap at asinc.com
Tue Jan 30 14:16:58 PST 2007
Build two sibling subclasses of :STANDARD-CLASS, call them :CLASS-1 and
:CLASS-2. Build an instance of each metaclass, Class 1-1 and Class 2-1,
and build a subclass of each of those classes, Class 1-2 and Class 2-2.
Now, drag and drop Class 1-2 as a subclass of Class 2-1 and Class 2-2 as
a subclass of Class 1-1. Note that we now have an instance of :CLASS-1
with a subclass that is an instance of :CLASS-2, and vice versa. Mayhem
is likely to ensue; even more mayhem may occur if I drag and drop Class
2-1 under Class 2-2. If I do this mischeviously, I deserve what I get;
but this can also happen when a user inadvertently drags a class on the
Classes view, and might sensibly happen intentionally while editing the
class structure in an ontology.
A suggestion: if a drag and drop would result in an inconsistency
between a child's metaclass and a parent's metaclass, ask the user if
he/she really wants to do this and, if so, change the child's metaclass
(and the metaclass of all its children, if it was the root of a tree).
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