View extending CommonNavigator - eclipse

I am having a view which extends CommonNavigator.
I am creating a custom project through a CustomProjectCreation wizard.
Only refresh as given below works, but it refreshes all the projects each time a new project is created which should be avoided,
CommonNavigator resNav;
try {
resNav = (CommonNavigator)activePage.findView("view id");
resNav.getCommonViewer().refresh();
//resNav.getCommonViewer().refresh(newProject); //doesn't work
} catch (PartInitException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
ContentProvider looks as below
if(parentElement instanceof IWorkspaceRoot){
List customProjects = getCustomProjects();
return customProjects.toArray(new CustomProject[customProjects.size()]);
}
On Debug, getCommonViewer().refresh() calls the getChildren() method in the content provider.
getCommonViewer().refresh(newProject) doesn't make a call to ContentProvider
expandtolevel and setExpandedState aren't working...
How to achieve refresh in particular to the newly created project?
How to expand the created project?
Regards,
Aravind

Are you sure that the problem is in the common navigator? If you have created the artifacts inside of your new project by using non Eclipse resource access methods (that is normal Java file IO instead of IResource, IFile and related code), then the model just does not know about the new content. If this is the case, you would need yourProjectResource.refreshLocal() first.

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Setting a eclipse plug-in to singleton when creating a plug-in project via IPluginContentWizard interface

I'm developing a wizard that implements the org.eclipse.pde.ui.IPluginContentWizard interface. Thus it gets added as plug-in project template in the end of the plug-in project wizard. All files will be created just fine, but there is one error in the project. The plug-in is not declared to be a singleton which it must be when extending extension points.
How do I do that within the wizard? I figured it needs to be done in performFinish(IProject project, IPluginModelBase model, IProgressMonitor monitor) but neither the project nor the model gives me a possibility to do so.
Edit: For future readers: My mistake was, that I didn't add the extension via the API but rather via generating the plugin.xml "by hand". This caused no mechanism in the background to do their job and thus the singleton directive wasn't set.
This way will be too long, let's use more PDE API:
First, define the template section
import org.eclipse.pde.ui.templates.OptionTemplateSection;
public class YourTemplateSection extends OptionTemplateSection {
//implement abstract methods according your needs
#Override
protected void updateModel(IProgressMonitor monitor) throws CoreException {
IPluginBase plugin = model.getPluginBase();
//do what is needed
plugin.add(extension);//here the "singleton" directive will be set
}
}
then use the section with wizard
import org.eclipse.pde.ui.templates.ITemplateSection;
import org.eclipse.pde.ui.templates.NewPluginTemplateWizard;
public class YourContentWizard extends NewPluginTemplateWizard {
#Override
public ITemplateSection[] createTemplateSections() {
return new ITemplateSection[] { new YourTemplateSection() };
}
}
In case one does the same rookie mistake then me, I wanted to post my solution I came up after revisiting the project later:
Don't create the plugin.xml manually, use the PDE API of the plugin model to add extensions.
In the org.eclipse.pde.ui.IPluginContentWizard implementions's performFinish(...) method do this:
try {
IPluginExtension extension = model.getExtensions().getModel().getFactory().createExtension();
extension.setPoint("org.eclipse.elk.core.layoutProviders");
IPluginElement provider = model.getPluginFactory().createElement(extension);
provider.setName("provider");
provider.setAttribute("class", id + "." + algorithmName + "MetadataProvider");
extension.add(provider);
model.getExtensions().add(extension);
} catch (CoreException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

Delete a particular IMarker in builder

I am currently into Eclipse plugin development. I am in the need of using IMarker for a custom builder. I am creating project marker through org.eclipse.core.resources.IMarker and I am using IMarker.PROBLEM for two different situations.
How to delete and refresh a particular IMarker without deleting all the iMarker in the project resource.
I tried delete() method in the IMarker implementation. But it is not helping me out. And I found only the method deleteMarkers() in the project that actually deletes all the markers that are available in the project resource.
iProject.deleteMarkers(IMarker.PROBLEM, true,
IProject.DEPTH_INFINITE);
iProject.refreshLocal(IProject.DEPTH_INFINITE, null);
Please help me through this, I want to delete only a particular IMarker at the specified situation. I could not delete individual markers. Are there any source or reference you can point me to ? Thanks.
Basically, you have either store or find your specific markers. You can look for a marker in a selected resource (not on a project, but the current resource):
IMarker[] problems = null;
int depth = IResource.DEPTH_INFINITE;
try {
problems = resource.findMarkers(IMarker.PROBLEM, true, depth);
} catch (CoreException e) {
// something went wrong
}
When you have the correct marker, you can 1) update it by setting its properties, or 2) delete it using IMarker.delete().
The code snippet used here comes from the Mark My Words tutorial.

Suppress Errors in JavaScript validation

I'm currently developing an eclipse plugin. This plugin contains a project nature which depends on the javaScript nature of jsdt.
Now at a few details the JavaScripts that the projects of my nature can contain are somewhat special.
They can contain "compiler hints" which are basicly statements beginning with #
They can contain return statements outside of functions
But at this two points the standard validation of jsdt come in and marks them as errors (which is normally right). I already managed to get this errors filtered out in the properties of the JavaScript validator (manually).
My question is, how can i exclude these errors from the validation of jsdt automatically for the projects with my nature?
JSDT uses concrete syntax parser which generates syntax errors.
You can't disable this. Only semantics error or warnings can be configured.
However you can disable entire validation of JSDT.
Below solution will suppress errors ands warnings which are generated while we save some changes on java script files. (Auto Build, Build)
Open Properties Dialog of Your Project.
Choose Builders item.
Uncheck "JavaScript Validator". And Press OK button.
Remove current errors and warnings from Problems View
This solution can't eliminate error or warning annotations in editor while you edit. They will show up on editor temporarily only when you edit it.
After a lot of research, hours of deleting markers and debugging i finally managed to delete the errors i wanted. In a bad bad way of course but i've come to a point where i just wanted this to work no matter how it's done.
If you ever want to delete existing problems that had been created during the validation process of jsdt you need to do the following (and you must not ommit anything):
Create a class extending org.eclipse.wst.jsdt.core.compiler.ValidationParticipant
Override isActive(), buildStarting() and reconcile() methods.
So there are two things you basicly have to care about.
The actual problem markers that will be created or had already been created at the end of the validation process.
The Problems created by the validation process. They are of the type CategorizedProblem and can be obtained by the ReconcileContext object that is passed to the reconcile() method.
It seems to me that the CategorizedProblems will be translated to problem markers after the validation process.
So what you need to do is:
Delete all unwanted problem markers of all files in buildStarting (this removes problem markers from all files in your project that are about to be validated)
Iterate the CategorizedProblem objects of the ReconcileContext (getProblems())
Create a new Array containing only the CategorizedProblems you want to keep
Set this new Array to the ReconcileContext with putProblems()
Delete the unwanted markers again for that file (i don't know why this is needed, please don't ask, i don't care anymore :-/)
An example implementation of such a validationParticipant could look like this: (this one will filter out problems complaining about return statements outside of methods:
[...ommited imports ...]
public class MyValidationParticipant extends org.eclipse.wst.jsdt.core.compiler.ValidationParticipant{
#Override
public boolean isActive(IJavaScriptProject project) {
return true;
}
#Override
public void buildStarting(BuildContext[] files, boolean isBatch) {
super.buildStarting(files, isBatch);
for(BuildContext context : files){
IFile file = context.getFile();
deleteUnwantedMarkers(file);
}
}
#Override
public void reconcile(ReconcileContext context) {
IResource resource = context.getWorkingCopy().getResource();
CategorizedProblem[] newProblems = new CategorizedProblem[0];
ArrayList<CategorizedProblem> newProblemList = new ArrayList<CategorizedProblem>();
CategorizedProblem[] probs = context.getProblems("org.eclipse.wst.jsdt.core.problem");
if(probs != null){
for(CategorizedProblem p : probs){
if(!(p.getMessage().equals("Cannot return from outside a function or method."))){
newProblemList.add(p);
}
}
}
}
context.putProblems("org.eclipse.wst.jsdt.core.problem", newProblemList.toArray(newProblems));
deleteUnwantedMarkers(resource);
}
public static void deleteUnwantedMarkers(IResource resource){
if(resource.isSynchronized(IResource.DEPTH_INFINITE)){
try {
IMarker[] markers = resource.findMarkers(IMarker.PROBLEM, true, IResource.DEPTH_INFINITE);
if(markers != null && markers.length > 0){
for(IMarker m : markers){
Object message = m.getAttribute(IMarker.MESSAGE);
if(message.equals("Cannot return from outside a function or method.")){
m.delete();
}
}
}
}catch (CoreException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}
As i said, this is kind of a bad solution since the code relies on the String of the error message. There should be better ways to identify the problems you don't want to have.
Don't forget to add a proper extension in your plugin.xml for the ValidationParticipant.

JAXB in Netbeans Module

Their Seems to be a problem when i attempt to run JAXB marshaller in a netbeans module. Originally I thought it was the node implimentation so i spent a couple of days reorganizing everything however I was still recieveing the odd error message
javax.xml.bind.JAXBException: ClassCastException: attempting to cast jar:file:/C:/Program%20Files/jmonkeyplatform/ide/modules/ext/jaxb/api/jaxb-api.jar!/javax/xml/bind/JAXBContext.class to jar:file:/C:/Program%20Files/Java/jdk1.6.0_21/jre/lib/rt.jar!/javax/xml/bind/JAXBContext.class. Please make sure that you are specifying the proper ClassLoader.
at javax.xml.bind.ContextFinder.handleClassCastException(ContextFinder.java:96)
at javax.xml.bind.ContextFinder.newInstance(ContextFinder.java:205)
at javax.xml.bind.ContextFinder.find(ContextFinder.java:363)
at javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.newInstance(JAXBContext.java:574)
at javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.newInstance(JAXBContext.java:522)
at com.spectre.util.JAXBImporterExporter.write(JAXBImporterExporter.java:63)
I am not exactly sure what the issue is the importer/exporter seems to work in normal projects and the importer seems to work fine when parsing the file however the export seems to cause issues. The method I use to export is
public static <T> void write(T savable, Class<T> type,Object path) {
try {
JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(type);
Marshaller marshaller = jc.createMarshaller();
marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true);
if(path instanceof File)
marshaller.marshal(savable, (File)path);
else if(path instanceof OutputStream){
marshaller.marshal(savable, (OutputStream)path);
}else throw new NoSuchMethodException("The Field Path must be of either type File or OutputStream");
} catch (NoSuchMethodException ex) {
Exceptions.printStackTrace(ex);
} catch (JAXBException ex) {
Exceptions.printStackTrace(ex);
}
}
any assistance is appreciated
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I Found that if you instead change the initialization of the JAXBContext to JAXBContext.newInstane(String contextPath,ClassLoader loader) in which the class loader you recieve from the current class your in ie MyClass.class.getClassLoader(). Also instead of a schema you can use a jaxb.index which is just a text file list of the class names that you've augmented for use with jaxb that is inside their same directory. Their should be one for each directory though for me they where all in the same directory. and seperated in the same string in the constructor's context path param with :
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Eclipse RCP: How to access internal classes of plugins?

I want to use the default XML editor (org.eclipse.wst.xml.ui) of Eclipse in an RCP application. I need to read the DOM of the xml file currently open. The plugin doesn't offer any extension point, so I'm trying to access the internal classes. I am aware that the I should not access the internal classes, but I don't have another option.
My approach is to create a fragment and an extension point to be able to read data from the plugin. I'm trying not to recompile the plugin, that's why I thought that a fragment was necessary. I just want to load it and extract the data at runtime.
So, my question is: is there another way to access the classes of a plugin? if yes, how?
Any tutorial, doc page or useful link for any of the methods is welcome.
Since nobody answered my question and I found the answer after long searches, I will post the answer for others to use if they bump into this problem.
To access a plugin at runtime you must create and extension point and an extension attached to it into the plugin that you are trying to access.
Adding classes to a plugin using a fragment is not recommended if you want to access those classes from outside of the plugin.
So, the best solution for this is to get the plugin source from the CVS Repository and make the modifications directly into the source of the plugin. Add extension points, extensions and the code for functionality.
Tutorials:
Getting the plugin from the CVS Repository:
http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/community/tutorials/DevelopingWTP/DevelopingWTP.html
Creating extensions and extension points and accessing them:
http://www.vogella.de/articles/EclipseExtensionPoint/article.html
http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t97608.rhtml
I ended up extending XMLMultiPageEditorPart like this:
public class MultiPageEditor extends XMLMultiPageEditorPart implements
IResourceChangeListener {
#Override
public void resourceChanged(IResourceChangeEvent event) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
setActivePage(3);
}
public Document getDOM() {
int activePageIndex = getActivePage();
setActivePage(1);
StructuredTextEditor fTextEditor = (StructuredTextEditor) getSelectedPage();
IDocument document = fTextEditor.getDocumentProvider().getDocument(
fTextEditor.getEditorInput());
IStructuredModel model = StructuredModelManager.getModelManager()
.getExistingModelForRead(document);
Document modelDocument = null;
try {
if (model instanceof IDOMModel) {
// cast the structured model to a DOM Model
modelDocument = (Document) (((IDOMModel) model).getDocument());
}
} finally {
if (model != null) {
model.releaseFromRead();
}
}
setActivePage(activePageIndex);
return modelDocument;
}
}
This is not a clean implementation, but it gets the job done.