Icon class icon_class fas fa-quote-left icon_class_computed fas fa-quote-left Related content Source Unified Modeling Language 2.5.1 Copyright information About Object Management Group copyright in text extracts quoted from OMG specifications for educational purposes Snippet kind INFO UML keywords reply-message-label Message Message::messageSort MessageSort MessageSort::reply ValueSpecification Previous snippet Full quote A reply-message-label may optionally have an assignment-target given to the left of the message-name, with a corresponding returned value denoted by the optional value-specification given after a colon at the end of the reply-message- label. Next snippet If the Message has a signature that is an Operation with a return parameter, then this assignment-target and/or value-specification corresponds to the argument for that parameter (if no assignment-target is given, it is considered to be unknown). Related snippets 17.4.4.1 Message - A message is shown as a line from the sender MessageEnd to the receiver MessageEnd. The line must be such that every line fragment is either horizontal or downwards when traversed from send event to receive event. A reply Message (messageSort equals reply) has a dashed line with either an open or filled arrow head. A reply-message-label is used for reply Messages. It has the following form ... Related snippets (backlinks) If the Message has a signature without a return parameter, then no assignment-target or value-specification may be given for the reply-message-label as a whole. If a reply Message does not have a signature, then the only argument that may be specified for it is a return argument as specified above. If a reply Message does not have a signature, then the only argument that may be specified for it is a return argument as specified above. However, if the Message has a signature that is an Operation with out or inout ownedParameters, then ... An output-argument always explicitly names the parameter to which it is to be matched. Any parameters that are not named are considered to have implicit wildcard arguments. (There is thus no need for an explicit wildcard notation for output-arguments.) If a reply-message-label does not include an output-argument-list and the Message has a signature, then this denotes that the Message has wildcard arguments corresponding to all out and inout ownedParameters of the signature Operation (if any). Note that the parentheses are not considered part of the output-argument list, so a reply-message-label without an output-argument-list may still optionally include an empty set of parentheses (“()”) after the message-name. An output-argument with an explicit assignment-target given may also optionally include a value-specification. If a value-specification is given, then this denotes the returned value for the argument. Otherwise the argument has no modeled returned value If an output-argument does not have an explicit assignment-target specified, it is considered to have an unknown assignment target. In this case, it is required to include a value-specification, which denotes the returned value for the argument. If the identity of a reply Message is obvious (e.g., when its sendEvent is the only reply within the extent of an ExecutionOccurence where there is only one receipt of an Operation call message), the label may be omitted to simplify the diagram. If the reply Message has a signature, then wildcard arguments are provided for all return, out and inout ownedParameters of the signature Operation. Visit also Visit also (backlinks) Flags
