Issue 19412: Can a SysML Full Port be typed by a ValueType? (sysml-rtf)
Source: NASA (Dr. Nicolas F. Rouquette, nicolas.f.rouquette(at)jpl.nasa.gov)
Nature: Uncategorized Issue
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Summary: Several users at JPL have been asking me about this particular combination.
I can't find anything in the 1.4 spec precluding typing a full port by a value type.


Have I missed anything?

Resolution: Defer

Postponed to the next RTF
Revised Text: 
Actions taken:
May 12, 2014: received issue
January 3, 2017: Deferred
April 6, 2017: closed issue
Discussion: 

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m: "Rouquette, Nicolas F (313D)" <nicolas.f.rouquette@jpl.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Can a SysML Full Port be typed by a ValueType?
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Several users at JPL have been asking me about this particular combination.
I can't find anything in the 1.4 spec precluding typing a full port by a value type.


Have I missed anything?


- Nicolas.



From: "Bock, Conrad" <conrad.bock@nist.gov>
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Nicolas,


 >  Several users at JPL have been asking me about this particular
 >  combination.  I can't find anything in the 1.4 spec precluding
 >  typing a full port by a value type.


You mean primitive value types like numbers and strings?  Generally full
ports are structural elements of systems just like parts are ("parts on
the boundary").  This enables items to flow to and from them, for them
to have internal behavior, and be the ends of navigable associations,
which primitives can't have.  Structured value types are more
expressive, but these still can't have identity, so don't seem
appropriate for a structural part of a system. Do you have some
examples?

Conrad