Writing an Eclipse Plug-in: The Missing Zip Files

June 29, 2010 3 comments

After only 22 Eclipse postings I have finally gotten around to creating the zip files for each of the posts where changes were actually made to the project. Bear in mind that the various zip files will not necessarily match up with the blog posts.

Here are the zip files:
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Writing an Eclipse Plug-in (Part 22): Common Navigator: Adding submenus (Presentation)

May 30, 2010 2 comments

[If anyone cares: I have upgraded to Eclipse 3.6 RC3]

Happy Memorial Day weekend, everyone (at least those in the United States)!

For those who have accepted that life is meaningless, short and painful: chow down at the grill! Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow you die!

For those who believe that life is meaningful, long and joyous: don’t overdo your carbs, remember that hot dogs have artificial colors and mystery meat, and grilling your food causes the formation of cancer causing agents due to carbonization. In other words, don’t eat, drink or be too merry because the odds are you won’t be dying tomorrow (or maybe you will).

But, hey! Enjoy the weekend!

Well, with that sense of merriment out of the way it is time to go back to the real reason we are here: finishing up the popup menu.
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Writing an Eclipse Plug-in (Part 21): Return of the Popup Menu (Displaying Resources)

[In case anyone cares: I have upgraded to Eclipse 3.6 RC1]

Welcome to the second of what will probably be 4 posts on creating popup menus using the Common Navigator Framework.

In the last post we created a two item popup that appears when there are no resources displayed or selected. In this post we will have the popup menu appear even when we right click on a resource.

How (are we doing it?)

Perform the following on the customnavigator plug-in project.

  1. Delete the navigatorContent enablement adapt entries for both CustomNewActionProvider and CustomRefreshActionProvider.
    • plugin.xml –> Extensions
    • org.eclipse.ui.navigator.navigatorContent –> customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomNewActionProvider –> (enablement) –> (or) –> org.eclipse.core.resources.IResource (adapt) –> Delete
    • org.eclipse.ui.navigator.navigatorContent –> customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomRefreshActionProvider –> (enablement) –> (or) –> org.eclipse.core.resources.IResource (adapt) –> Delete
  2. Add two enablement instanceof entries for both CustomNewActionProvider and CustomRefreshActionProvider.
    • org.eclipse.ui.navigator.navigatorContent –> customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomNewActionProvider –> (enablement) –> (or) –> New –> instanceof
      • value: customnavigator.navigator.ICustomProjectElement
    • org.eclipse.ui.navigator.navigatorContent –> customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomRefreshActionProvider –> (enablement) –> (or) –> New –> instanceof
      • value: customnavigator.navigator.ICustomProjectElement
  3. Start the runtime workbench, create a Custom Project, go to the Custom Perspective and right click on the project. You should see the popup menu.

Why (did we do it that way?)

First, let’s do that simplest thing I can think of: have a popup menu appear with one menu item. Once that is in place the rest are mechanical steps.

In order to have a new popup menu appear Eclipse needs to recognize the resource so that it will show just the menus you want and no others. How do we do that? By setting up an enablement with our custom project type.

Perform the following on the customnavigator plug-in project.

Go to plugin.xml –> Extensions.

Remove the entry for IResource (adapt):

  • org.eclipse.ui.navigator.navigatorContent –> customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomNewActionProvider –> (enablement) –> (or) –> org.eclipse.core.resources.IResource (adapt) –> Delete

That entry told Eclipse to open the popup when the selected resource was of type IResource. Well the custom project does not include the IResource. We don’t need it for now. What we do need is for the popup to open when any of our custom types is selected. Since all of the custom nodes implement ICustomProjectElement we use that instead.

  • org.eclipse.ui.navigator.navigatorContent –> customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomNewActionProvider –> (enablement) –> (or) –> New –> instanceof
    • value: customnavigator.navigator.ICustomProjectElement

Why use instanceof instead of adapt? An adapt entry means that the selected object, in this case CustomProjectParent, can be adapted (converted) into the listed type, originally IResource, Since a CustomProjectParent does not implement IResource anywhere in its inheritance hierarchy the adapt will never work. Adapt means that we would have to change the custom node types while instanceof puts the onus on Eclipse. You know where my vote goes.

Perform the same steps for CustomRefreshActionProvider:

  1. org.eclipse.ui.navigator.navigatorContent –> customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomRefreshActionProvider –> (enablement) –> (or) –> org.eclipse.core.resources.IResource (adapt) –> Delete
  2. org.eclipse.ui.navigator.navigatorContent –> customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomRefreshActionProvider –> (enablement) –> (or) –> New –> instanceof
    • value: customnavigator.navigator.ICustomProjectElement
  3. Start the runtime workbench, create a Custom Project, go to the Custom Perspective and right click on the project. You should see the popup menu.

While I was doing this I found that the above did not work. It turned out that my Launch configuration thought I only needed 73 of the existing plug-ins while I needed a few more. It is possible that your Launch Configuration might not have enough dependencies selected. In Eclipse 3.6 RC1 this needed 80 out of 375 plug-ins. The only other plug-in I have installed is EGit.

What Just Happened?

Not a lot just happened. Changing the adapt entry to instanceof specific to our custom project type was enough to get the popup to behave the way we needed. Not a lot of work.

What we need to do next is create New behavior for:

  • New Schema Table
  • New Schema View
  • New Schema Filter
  • New Stored Procedure

That will take commands, handlers and command images.

Our current setup creates new projects, schema files and deployment files. Oops. We’ll have to change that. Next time. Maybe.

After that we’ll add properties pages to each node type fix the New menus in the toolbar and main menu.

The cat is tired. It may be time to do some genetic programming posts.

Code

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?eclipse version="3.4"?>
<plugin>
   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.ui.views">
      <category
            id="customnavigator.category"
            name="%category.name">
      </category>
      <view
            allowMultiple="false"
            category="customnavigator.category"
            class="org.eclipse.ui.navigator.CommonNavigator"
            icon="icons/navigator.png"
            id="customnavigator.navigator"
            name="%view.name">
      </view>
   </extension>
   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.ui.navigator.viewer">
      <viewer
            viewerId="customnavigator.navigator">
         <popupMenu
               id="customnavigator.navigator#PopupMenu">
            <insertionPoint
                  name="group.new">
            </insertionPoint>
            <insertionPoint
                  name="group.build"
                  separator="true">
            </insertionPoint>
         </popupMenu>
      </viewer>
      <viewerContentBinding
            viewerId="customnavigator.navigator">
         <includes>
            <contentExtension
                  pattern="customnavigator.navigatorContent">
            </contentExtension>
         </includes>
      </viewerContentBinding>
      <viewerActionBinding
            viewerId="customnavigator.navigator">
         <includes>
            <actionExtension
                  pattern="customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomNewAction">
            </actionExtension>
            <actionExtension
                  pattern="customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomRefreshAction">
            </actionExtension>
         </includes>
      </viewerActionBinding>
   </extension>
   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.ui.navigator.navigatorContent">
      <navigatorContent
            activeByDefault="true"
            contentProvider="customnavigator.navigator.ContentProvider"
            id="customnavigator.navigatorContent"
            labelProvider="customnavigator.navigator.LabelProvider"
            name="%navigatorContent.name">
         <triggerPoints>
            <instanceof
                  value="org.eclipse.core.resources.IWorkspaceRoot">
            </instanceof>
         </triggerPoints>
         <commonSorter
               class="customnavigator.sorter.SchemaCategorySorter"
               id="customnavigator.sorter.schemacategorysorter">
            <parentExpression>
               <or>
                  <instanceof
                        value="customnavigator.navigator.CustomProjectSchema">
                  </instanceof>
               </or>
            </parentExpression>
         </commonSorter>
      </navigatorContent>
      <actionProvider
            class="customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomNewActionProvider"
            id="customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomNewAction">
         <enablement>
            <or>
               <instanceof
                     value="customnavigator.navigator.ICustomProjectElement">
               </instanceof>
               <adapt
                     type="java.util.Collection">
                  <count
                        value="0">
                  </count>
               </adapt>
            </or>
         </enablement>
      </actionProvider>
      <actionProvider
            class="customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomRefreshActionProvider"
            id="customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomRefreshAction">
         <enablement>
            <or>
               <instanceof
                     value="customnavigator.navigator.ICustomProjectElement">
               </instanceof>
               <adapt
                     type="java.util.Collection">
                  <count
                        value="0">
                  </count>
               </adapt>
            </or>
         </enablement>
      </actionProvider>
      <commonWizard
            type="new"
            wizardId="customplugin.wizard.new.custom">
         <enablement></enablement>
      </commonWizard>
   </extension>

</plugin>

Writing an Eclipse Plug-in (Part 20): Return of the Popup Menu (For an Empty Navigator)

April 4, 2010 4 comments

[This is a long post. It also feels like a bit of a mess. Whoda thought that creating a popup menu when there are no resources available in a navigator could be so non-trivial?]

So what’s the problem (or as they say in marketing speak: what is the challenge)?

The challenge (or as they say in real life: the pain) is quite easy to describe: when I right click in the custom navigator the popup menu appears. When I create a custom project and right-click on it the popup menu does not appear.

That behavior has to stop or I am turning this blog around right now (I’m not kidding! I’ll turn around right now!).

Alright. I lied. We actually have two problems:

  1. Remove the undefined menu items from the popup when nothing is available or selected
  2. Enable a specific set of menus when a Custom Project has been created

What this means is we have to decide when menu items appear/disappear or are enabled/disabled based on items being selected/unselected.

Sounds like a lot of combinations. Sounds like a job for a UML State diagram which I actually like when I am writing a real application. The issue here is that I am still kinda just messing with this and the state diagram makes me become too serious (I find that even the squirrels start to complain).

So let’s list the menu items we know so far:

  • New Custom Project
  • New Schema File
  • New Stored Procedure File
  • Open Project
  • Close Project
  • Copy
  • Paste
  • Delete
  • Import
  • Export
  • Refresh
  • Properties

Looks like a lot. Let’s think about this: copy, paste and delete don’t mean what they usually do, except for projects. I expect them to only copy/paste/delete the nodes they represent not entire files. Let’s leave them for last so let’s just remove them.

Open and Close project sounds too cool to be true. They will come after we do copy, paste and delete (and while we’re at it, how about working sets? Nah.).

Import and Export are also unknown. Since importing/exporting anything but Custom Projects seems rather odd, and we don’t know what it means to import or export Custom Projects, they will have to go too.

That leaves us with:

  • New Custom Project
  • New Schema File
  • New Stored Procedure File
  • Refresh
  • Properties

Much more managable. Also, we can expand what it means to be a schema and stored procedure in the Custom Navigator: the schema’s child nodes have New behavior as does the Stored Procedure node. So the list really looks like this:

  • New Custom Project
  • New Schema Table
  • New Schema View
  • New Schema Filter
  • New Stored Procedure
  • Refresh
  • Properties

When nothing is selected the following are enabled:

  • New Custom Project
  • Refresh

We can’t go around randomly creating Tables, Views and Filters just because, now can we?

When a Custom Project, or any custom resource, is selected the following are enabled:

  • New Custom Project
  • New Schema Table
  • New Schema View
  • New Schema Filter
  • New Stored Procedure
  • Refresh
  • Properties

As Richard Dreyfus once yelled into the open air: What does it mean?

What the above means is that the easiest way to control the popup menu for this custom navigator is to make one (or in this case two) rather than rely on the default popup and reconfigure it as we go. I tried desperately to avoid it, but in order to remove the default presentation of New, Import and Export it is just plain ol’ easier to make a new popup menu. Dems the breaks.

Tasks for this post and the next:

  1. Create a popup menu when the Custom navigator is empty
  2. Create a popup menu when a resource is selected in the Custom navigator

How (are we doing it?)

Time to back track. Remove the following:

  1. Remove all three commonWizard entries found under org.eclipse.ui.navigator.navigatorContent. That removes the menu entries under the popup menu New.
  2. Remove navigatorplugin –> plugin.xml –> org.eclipse.ui.menus
  3. Remove org.eclipse.ui.navigator.viewer –> customnavigator.navigator (viewerActionBinding) entry.

That was the easy stuff. The more involved steps for this post are:

  1. Define the popup menu and its insertionPoints
  2. Define the actionProvider
  3. Define the actionExtension
  4. Implement the action provider code (if not implementing the command framework)

Sounds pretty straightforward doesn’t it?

Let’s see how well we do.

  1. Define the popup menu and its insertionPoints
    1. Create a viewer entry in org.eclipse.ui.viewer
      • org.eclipse.ui.navigator.viewer –> New –> viewer
        • viewerId: customnavigator.navigator
    2. Create a popupMenu entry under the viewer
      • customnavigator.navigator (viewer) –> New –> popupMenu
        • id: customnavigator.navigator#PopupMenu
    3. Add two insertion points under the popupMenu
      • customnavigator.navigator#PopupMenu (popupMenu) –> New –> insertionPoint
        • name: group.new
      • customnavigator.navigator#PopupMenu (popupMenu) –> New –> insertionPoint
        • name: group.build
  2. Define the actionProviders
    1. org.eclipse.ui.navigator.navigatorContent –> New –> actionProvider
      • class: customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomNewActionProvider
      • id: customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomNewAction
      • customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomNewActionProvider (actionProvider) –> enablement –> New –> or
      • or –> New –> adapt
        • type: org.eclipse.core.resources.IResource
      • or –> New –> adapt
        • type: java.util.Collection
      • java.util.Collection –> New –> count
        • value: 0
    2. org.eclipse.ui.navigator.navigatorContent –> New –> actionProvider
      • class: customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomRefreshActionProvider
      • id: customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomRefreshAction
      • customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomRefreshActionProvider (actionProvider) –> enablement –> New –> or
      • or –> New –> adapt
        • type: org.eclipse.core.resources.IResource
      • or –> New –> adapt
        • type: java.util.Collection
      • java.util.Collection –> New –> count
        • value: 0
  3. Define the actionExtensions
    • org.eclipse.ui.navigator.viewer –> New –> viewerActionBinding
      • viewerId: customnavigator.navigator
    • customnavigator.navigator (viewerActionBinding) –> New –> includes
      • includes –> New –> actionExtension
      • pattern: customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomNewAction
    • org.eclipse.ui.navigator.viewer –> customnavigator.navigator (viewerActionBinding) –> (includes) –> New –> actionExtension and change pattern to:
      • pattern: customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomRefreshAction
  4. Implement the action provider code in the customnavigator plug-in
    customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomNewActionProvider

    /**
     * Coder beware: this code is not warranted to do anything.
     * Some or all of this code is taken from the Eclipse code base.
     *
     * Copyright Mar 28, 2010 Carlos Valcarcel
     */
    package customnavigator.popup.actionprovider;
    
    import org.eclipse.jface.action.IMenuManager;
    import org.eclipse.jface.action.MenuManager;
    import org.eclipse.jface.action.Separator;
    import org.eclipse.ui.IWorkbenchWindow;
    import org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI;
    import org.eclipse.ui.actions.ActionFactory;
    import org.eclipse.ui.navigator.CommonActionProvider;
    import org.eclipse.ui.navigator.ICommonActionExtensionSite;
    import org.eclipse.ui.navigator.ICommonMenuConstants;
    import org.eclipse.ui.navigator.ICommonViewerWorkbenchSite;
    import org.eclipse.ui.navigator.WizardActionGroup;
    
    public class CustomNewActionProvider extends CommonActionProvider {
    
        private static final String NEW_MENU_NAME = &quot;common.new.menu&quot;;//$NON-NLS-1$
    
        private ActionFactory.IWorkbenchAction showDlgAction;
    
        private WizardActionGroup newWizardActionGroup;
    
        private boolean contribute = false;
    
        @Override
        public void init(ICommonActionExtensionSite anExtensionSite) {
    
            if (anExtensionSite.getViewSite() instanceof ICommonViewerWorkbenchSite) {
                IWorkbenchWindow window = ((ICommonViewerWorkbenchSite) anExtensionSite.getViewSite()).getWorkbenchWindow();
                showDlgAction = ActionFactory.NEW.create(window);
    
                newWizardActionGroup = new WizardActionGroup(window, PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getNewWizardRegistry(), WizardActionGroup.TYPE_NEW, anExtensionSite.getContentService());
    
                contribute = true;
            }
        }
    
        @Override
        public void fillContextMenu(IMenuManager menu) {
            IMenuManager submenu = new MenuManager(
                    &quot;New&quot;,
                    NEW_MENU_NAME);
            if(!contribute) {
                return;
            }
    
            // fill the menu from the commonWizard contributions
            newWizardActionGroup.setContext(getContext());
            newWizardActionGroup.fillContextMenu(submenu);
    
            submenu.add(new Separator(ICommonMenuConstants.GROUP_ADDITIONS));
    
            // Add other ..
            submenu.add(new Separator());
            submenu.add(showDlgAction);
    
            // append the submenu after the GROUP_NEW group.
            menu.insertAfter(ICommonMenuConstants.GROUP_NEW, submenu);
        }
    
        @Override
        public void dispose() {
            if (showDlgAction!=null) {
                showDlgAction.dispose();
                showDlgAction = null;
            }
            super.dispose();
        }
    }
    

    customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomRefreshActionProvider

    /**
     * Coder beware: this code is not warranted to do anything.
     * Some or all of this code is taken from the Eclipse code base.
     *
     * Copyright Apr 4, 2010 Carlos Valcarcel
     */
    package customnavigator.popup.actionprovider;
    
    import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
    import java.util.Iterator;
    
    import org.eclipse.core.resources.IProject;
    import org.eclipse.core.resources.WorkspaceJob;
    import org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException;
    import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IAdaptable;
    import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IProgressMonitor;
    import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IStatus;
    import org.eclipse.core.runtime.Status;
    import org.eclipse.core.runtime.jobs.ISchedulingRule;
    import org.eclipse.jface.action.IMenuManager;
    import org.eclipse.jface.resource.ImageDescriptor;
    import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.IStructuredSelection;
    import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer;
    import org.eclipse.jface.window.IShellProvider;
    import org.eclipse.osgi.util.NLS;
    import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;
    import org.eclipse.ui.IActionBars;
    import org.eclipse.ui.IWorkbenchCommandConstants;
    import org.eclipse.ui.actions.ActionFactory;
    import org.eclipse.ui.actions.RefreshAction;
    import org.eclipse.ui.actions.WorkspaceModifyOperation;
    import org.eclipse.ui.navigator.CommonActionProvider;
    import org.eclipse.ui.navigator.ICommonActionExtensionSite;
    import org.eclipse.ui.navigator.ICommonMenuConstants;
    
    import customnavigator.Activator;
    
    /**
     * The bulk of this code is taken from
     * org.eclipse.ui.internal.navigator.resources.actions.ResourceMgmtActionProvider
     * which is provided with Eclipse in case you want to look up the original.
     *
     * @author carlos
     */
    public class CustomRefreshActionProvider extends CommonActionProvider {
    
        private RefreshAction refreshAction;
    
        private Shell         shell;
    
        /*
         * (non-Javadoc)
         * @see
         * org.eclipse.ui.navigator.CommonActionProvider#init(org.eclipse.ui.navigator.ICommonActionExtensionSite)
         */
        @Override
        public void init(ICommonActionExtensionSite aSite) {
            super.init(aSite);
            shell = aSite.getViewSite().getShell();
            makeActions();
        }
    
        @Override
        public void fillActionBars(IActionBars actionBars) {
            actionBars.setGlobalActionHandler(ActionFactory.REFRESH.getId(), refreshAction);
            updateActionBars();
        }
    
        /**
         * Adds the refresh resource actions to the context menu.
         *
         * @param menu
         * context menu to add actions to
         */
        @SuppressWarnings(&quot;rawtypes&quot;)
        @Override
        public void fillContextMenu(IMenuManager menu) {
            IStructuredSelection selection = (IStructuredSelection) getContext().getSelection();
            boolean hasClosedProjects = false;
            Iterator resources = selection.iterator();
    
            while (resources.hasNext() &amp;&amp; (!hasClosedProjects)) {
                Object next = resources.next();
                IProject project = null;
    
                if (next instanceof IProject) {
                    project = (IProject) next;
                } else if (next instanceof IAdaptable) {
                    project = (IProject) ((IAdaptable) next).getAdapter(IProject.class);
                }
    
                if (project == null) {
                    continue;
                }
    
                if (!project.isOpen()) {
                    hasClosedProjects = true;
                }
            }
    
            if (!hasClosedProjects) {
                refreshAction.selectionChanged(selection);
                menu.appendToGroup(ICommonMenuConstants.GROUP_BUILD, refreshAction);
            }
        }
    
        protected void makeActions() {
            IShellProvider sp = new IShellProvider() {
                @SuppressWarnings(&quot;synthetic-access&quot;)
                @Override
                public Shell getShell() {
                    return shell;
                }
            };
    
            refreshAction = new RefreshAction(sp) {
                @Override
                public void run() {
                    final IStatus[] errorStatus = new IStatus[1];
                    errorStatus[0] = Status.OK_STATUS;
                    final WorkspaceModifyOperation op = (WorkspaceModifyOperation) createOperation(errorStatus);
                    WorkspaceJob job = new WorkspaceJob(&quot;refresh&quot;) { //$NON-NLS-1$
    
                        @SuppressWarnings(&quot;synthetic-access&quot;)
                        @Override
                        public IStatus runInWorkspace(IProgressMonitor monitor) throws CoreException {
                            try {
                                op.run(monitor);
                                if (shell != null &amp;&amp; !shell.isDisposed()) {
                                    shell.getDisplay().asyncExec(new Runnable() {
                                        @Override
                                        public void run() {
                                            StructuredViewer viewer = getActionSite().getStructuredViewer();
                                            if (viewer != null &amp;&amp; viewer.getControl() != null &amp;&amp; !viewer.getControl().isDisposed()) {
                                                viewer.refresh();
                                            }
                                        }
                                    });
                                }
                            } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
                                String msg = NLS.bind(&quot;Exception in {0}. run: {1}&quot;, getClass().getName(), e.getTargetException());
                                throw new CoreException(new Status(IStatus.ERROR, Activator.PLUGIN_ID, IStatus.ERROR, msg, e
                                        .getTargetException()));
                            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                                return Status.CANCEL_STATUS;
                            }
                            return errorStatus[0];
                        }
    
                    };
                    ISchedulingRule rule = op.getRule();
                    if (rule != null) {
                        job.setRule(rule);
                    }
                    job.setUser(true);
                    job.schedule();
                }
            };
            refreshAction.setDisabledImageDescriptor(getImageDescriptor(&quot;icons/refresh_nav_disabled.gif&quot;));//$NON-NLS-1$
            refreshAction.setImageDescriptor(getImageDescriptor(&quot;icons/refresh_nav_enabled.gif&quot;));//$NON-NLS-1$
            refreshAction.setActionDefinitionId(IWorkbenchCommandConstants.FILE_REFRESH);
        }
    
        /**
         * Returns the image descriptor with the given relative path.
         */
        protected ImageDescriptor getImageDescriptor(String relativePath) {
            return Activator.getIDEImageDescriptor(relativePath);
    
        }
    
        @Override
        public void updateActionBars() {
            IStructuredSelection selection = (IStructuredSelection) getContext().getSelection();
            refreshAction.selectionChanged(selection);
        }
    
    }
    

    Add the following to customnavigator.Activator:

    public class Activator extends AbstractUIPlugin {
    ...
        public static ImageDescriptor getIDEImageDescriptor(String imagePath) {
            return AbstractUIPlugin.imageDescriptorFromPlugin(Activator.PLUGIN_ID, imagePath);
        }
    }
    

    Add the following icons to the customnavigator icons folder:
    refresh_nav_enabled.gif:

    refresh_nav_disabled.gif:

Don’t forget:

  • Fix the warnings in MANIFEST.MF and plugin.xml.
  • Open the Externalize Strings Wizard and move the two strings to messages.properties in the folder with the action provider code.

Why (did we do it that way?)

To do today’s tasks it is necessary to clean the deck. That means removing all the wonderous things that took advantage of all the default GUI hooks and basically putting them back with new hooks. Think of it like spring cleaning…without spring or the cleaning.

Since we have already decided to have only the menu entries we really need we have to remove the commonWizard and org.eclipse.ui.menus entries for now. Don’t worry, we’ll put them back. It will be easier and cleaner to add them in sequence rather than removing some pieces, moving things around and hoping they work eventually.

  1. Remove all three commonWizard entries found under org.eclipse.ui.navigator.navigatorContent. That removes the menu entries under the popup menu New.
  2. Remove navigatorplugin –> plugin.xml –> org.eclipse.ui.menus

    As you should already know from the last post, the menuContribution entry found under org.eclipse.ui.menus let’s you directly add new menu items to an existing popup by giving Eclipse the path to the menu being affected. We’ll use this again later. Some things are too good to give up for long.

  3. Remove org.eclipse.ui.navigator.viewer –> customnavigator.navigator (viewerActionBinding) entry.The value of actionExtension –> pattern refers to the ids of the actionProvider classes that execute the default behavior when a popup menu item is selected. For example, the value we just removed, org.eclipse.ui.navigator.resources.*, refers to the actionProvider ids found in the org.eclipse.ui.navigator.resources plug-in. Remember how the default popup menu displays New, Import, Export and Refresh? Well, if you open org.eclipse.ui.navigator.resources –> plugin.xml you will find an actionProvider entry for the following classes (there are others, but additional actionProvider do not concern me):
    • org.eclipse.ui.internal.navigator.resources.actions.NewActionProvider
    • org.eclipse.ui.internal.navigator.resources.actions.PortingActionProvider
    • org.eclipse.ui.internal.navigator.resources.actions.ResourceMgmtActionProvider

    The ids for the above classes are:

    • org.eclipse.ui.navigator.resources.NewActions
    • org.eclipse.ui.navigator.resources.PortingActions
    • org.eclipse.ui.navigator.resources.ResourceMgmtActions

    Notice that the above ids fit the pattern org.eclipse.ui.navigator.resources.*. Eclipse doesn’t care about the class name; it cares about the id. Yes, there are other actionProviders, but they have enablement criteria that keeps them from being displayed when nothing is selected.

  4. Define the new popup menu and the insertionPoints.Time to make the donuts.

    Let’s create the popup and add one menu item. In order to do that we have to

    1. Create a viewer entry in org.eclipse.ui.viewer
    2. Create a popupMenu entry under the viewer
    3. Add an insertion point under the popupMenu
    4. Create a viewerActionBinding and actionExtension entry in org.eclipse.ui.navigator.viewer

    Do the following in the customnavigator plugin.xml Extensions tab:

    1. Create a viewer entry in org.eclipse.ui.viewer
      • org.eclipse.ui.navigator.viewer –> New –> viewer
        • viewerId: customnavigator.navigator
    2. Create a popupMenu entry under the viewer
      • customnavigator.navigator (viewer) –> New –> popupMenu
        • id: customnavigator.navigator#PopupMenu
    3. Add an insertion point under the popupMenu
      • customnavigator.navigator#PopupMenu (popupMenu) –> New –> insertionPoint
        • name: group.new
    4. Create a viewerActionBinding and actionExtension entry in org.eclipse.ui.navigator.viewer
      • org.eclipse.ui.navigator.viewer –> New –> viewerActionBinding
        • viewerId: customnavigator.navigator
      • customnavigator.navigator (viewerActionBinding) –> New –> includes
        • includes –> New –> actionExtension
        • pattern: org.eclipse.ui.navigator.resources.NewActions

    Quick note: The name group.new comes from ICommonMenuConstants found in org.eclipse.ui.navigator. Whenever possible I recommend adhering to existing naming conventions just to make things easier to find.

    Just for yucks we are using an existing action provider: org.eclipse.ui.internal.navigator.resources.actions.NewActionProvider whose id is org.eclipse.ui.navigator.resources.NewActions. What is interesting about the NewActionProvider is that it creates a new menu insertion point in the popup which allows menu items to be added as submenus. What is bad about NewActionProvider is that it does it programmatically.

    NewActionProvider.java

    public class NewActionProvider extends CommonActionProvider {
    ...
    	public void fillContextMenu(IMenuManager menu) {
    		IMenuManager submenu = new MenuManager(
    				WorkbenchNavigatorMessages.NewActionProvider_NewMenu_label,
    				NEW_MENU_NAME);
    		if(!contribute) {
    			return;
    		}
    ...
    		// THIS IS A NEW INSERTION POINT! WHODA THUNK IT?
    		menu.insertAfter(ICommonMenuConstants.GROUP_NEW, submenu);
    	}
    ...
    }
    

    That’s right, we cannot declare an insertion point for submenus in plugin.xml; the insertion point for a submenu has to be declared programmatically. Yes, code will have to be written, but we are going to steal copy most of it anyway.

  5. Start the runtime workbench and check that the popup menu appears when there is nothing displayed in the navigator. Exit the runtime workbench when you are done. Let’s create our own version of this code.
  6. Implement a version of CustomNewActionProvider to create an insertion point for the New Wizards.
    1. org.eclipse.ui.navigator.navigatorContent –> New –> actionProvider
      • class: customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomNewActionProvider
      • id: customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomNewAction
        • customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomNewActionProvider (actionProvider) –> enablement –> New –> or
        • or –> New –> adapt
          • type: org.eclipse.core.resources.IResource
        • or –> New –> adapt
          • type: java.util.Collection
        • java.util.Collection –> New –> count
          • value: 0

    Return to customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomNewActionProvider (actionProvider). Click the class link. Create the class. Add the following code:

    /**
     * Coder beware: this code is not warranted to do anything.
     * Some or all of this code is taken from the Eclipse code base.
     *
     * Copyright Mar 28, 2010 Carlos Valcarcel
     */
    package customnavigator.popup.actionprovider;
    
    import org.eclipse.jface.action.IMenuManager;
    import org.eclipse.jface.action.MenuManager;
    import org.eclipse.jface.action.Separator;
    import org.eclipse.ui.IWorkbenchWindow;
    import org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI;
    import org.eclipse.ui.actions.ActionFactory;
    import org.eclipse.ui.navigator.CommonActionProvider;
    import org.eclipse.ui.navigator.ICommonActionExtensionSite;
    import org.eclipse.ui.navigator.ICommonMenuConstants;
    import org.eclipse.ui.navigator.ICommonViewerWorkbenchSite;
    import org.eclipse.ui.navigator.WizardActionGroup;
    
    public class CustomNewActionProvider extends CommonActionProvider {
    
        private static final String NEW_MENU_NAME = &quot;common.new.menu&quot;;//$NON-NLS-1$
    
        private ActionFactory.IWorkbenchAction showDlgAction;
    
        private WizardActionGroup newWizardActionGroup;
    
        private boolean contribute = false;
    
        @Override
        public void init(ICommonActionExtensionSite anExtensionSite) {
    
            if (anExtensionSite.getViewSite() instanceof ICommonViewerWorkbenchSite) {
                IWorkbenchWindow window = ((ICommonViewerWorkbenchSite) anExtensionSite.getViewSite()).getWorkbenchWindow();
                showDlgAction = ActionFactory.NEW.create(window);
    
                newWizardActionGroup = new WizardActionGroup(window, PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getNewWizardRegistry(), WizardActionGroup.TYPE_NEW, anExtensionSite.getContentService());
    
                contribute = true;
            }
        }
    
        @Override
        public void fillContextMenu(IMenuManager menu) {
            IMenuManager submenu = new MenuManager(
                    &quot;New&quot;,
                    NEW_MENU_NAME);
            if(!contribute) {
                return;
            }
    
            // fill the menu from the commonWizard contributions
            newWizardActionGroup.setContext(getContext());
            newWizardActionGroup.fillContextMenu(submenu);
    
            submenu.add(new Separator(ICommonMenuConstants.GROUP_ADDITIONS));
    
            // Add other ..
            submenu.add(new Separator());
            submenu.add(showDlgAction);
    
            // append the submenu after the GROUP_NEW group.
            menu.insertAfter(ICommonMenuConstants.GROUP_NEW, submenu);
        }
    
        @Override
        public void dispose() {
            if (showDlgAction!=null) {
                showDlgAction.dispose();
                showDlgAction = null;
            }
            super.dispose();
        }
    }
    

    Now associate (bind) the actionProvider to the popup through the viewerActionBinding:

    • Go to org.eclipse.ui.navigator.viewer –> customnavigator.navigator (viewerActionBinding) –> (includes) –> org.eclipse.ui.navigator.resources.NewActions and change pattern to:
      • pattern: customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomNewAction

    Notice the use of the id, not the class name.

  7. Start the runtime workbench and check that the New popup menu appears and that it has one submenu, Other, which both appears and is enabled when there is nothing displayed in the navigator. Exit the runtime workbench when you are done.
  8. Add Custom Project to the New menu
    Let’s put back one of the pieces we removed earlier:

    • org.eclipse.ui.navigator.navigatorContent –> New –> commonWizard
      • type: new
      • wizardId: customplugin.wizard.new.custom
  9. Start the runtime workbench and check that the popup menu appears when there is nothing displayed in the navigator. Exit the runtime workbench when you are done.
  10. Add the Refresh menu
    Let’s add the Refresh menu without the functionality…just to maintain purity of thought. Besides, I confuse easily. We’ll add the code in a few steps.First, add a new insertionPoint for the Refresh menu:

    • customnavigator.navigator#PopupMenu (popupMenu) –> New –> insertionPoint
      • name: group.build
      • separator: true

    The name group.build comes from ICommonMenuConstants found in org.eclipse.ui.navigator.

    Let’s define the actionProvider for the Refresh menu:

    1. org.eclipse.ui.navigator.navigatorContent –> New –> actionProvider
      • class: customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomRefreshActionProvider
      • id: customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomRefreshAction
    2. customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomRefreshActionProvider –> enablement –> New –> or
    3. or –> New –> adapt
      • type: org.eclipse.core.resources.IResource
    4. or –> New –> adapt
      • type: java.util.Collection
    5. java.util.Collection –> New –> count
      • value: 0

    Next, let’s steal copy, the existing code from ResourceMgmtActionProvider to create CustomRefreshActionProvider.

    Return to customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomRefreshActionProvider (actionProvider). Click the class link, create the class and insert this code:

    /**
     * Coder beware: this code is not warranted to do anything.
     * Some or all of this code is taken from the Eclipse code base.
     *
     * Copyright Apr 4, 2010 Carlos Valcarcel
     */
    package customnavigator.popup.actionprovider;
    
    import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
    import java.util.Iterator;
    
    import org.eclipse.core.resources.IProject;
    import org.eclipse.core.resources.WorkspaceJob;
    import org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException;
    import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IAdaptable;
    import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IProgressMonitor;
    import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IStatus;
    import org.eclipse.core.runtime.Status;
    import org.eclipse.core.runtime.jobs.ISchedulingRule;
    import org.eclipse.jface.action.IMenuManager;
    import org.eclipse.jface.resource.ImageDescriptor;
    import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.IStructuredSelection;
    import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer;
    import org.eclipse.jface.window.IShellProvider;
    import org.eclipse.osgi.util.NLS;
    import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;
    import org.eclipse.ui.IActionBars;
    import org.eclipse.ui.IWorkbenchCommandConstants;
    import org.eclipse.ui.actions.ActionFactory;
    import org.eclipse.ui.actions.RefreshAction;
    import org.eclipse.ui.actions.WorkspaceModifyOperation;
    import org.eclipse.ui.navigator.CommonActionProvider;
    import org.eclipse.ui.navigator.ICommonActionExtensionSite;
    import org.eclipse.ui.navigator.ICommonMenuConstants;
    
    import customnavigator.Activator;
    
    /**
     * The bulk of this code is taken from
     * org.eclipse.ui.internal.navigator.resources.actions.ResourceMgmtActionProvider
     * which is provided with Eclipse in case you want to look up the original.
     *
     * @author carlos
     */
    public class CustomRefreshActionProvider extends CommonActionProvider {
    
        private RefreshAction refreshAction;
    
        private Shell         shell;
    
        /*
         * (non-Javadoc)
         * @see
         * org.eclipse.ui.navigator.CommonActionProvider#init(org.eclipse.ui.navigator.ICommonActionExtensionSite)
         */
        @Override
        public void init(ICommonActionExtensionSite aSite) {
            super.init(aSite);
            shell = aSite.getViewSite().getShell();
            makeActions();
        }
    
        @Override
        public void fillActionBars(IActionBars actionBars) {
            actionBars.setGlobalActionHandler(ActionFactory.REFRESH.getId(), refreshAction);
            updateActionBars();
        }
    
        /**
         * Adds the refresh resource actions to the context menu.
         *
         * @param menu
         * context menu to add actions to
         */
        @SuppressWarnings(&quot;rawtypes&quot;)
        @Override
        public void fillContextMenu(IMenuManager menu) {
            IStructuredSelection selection = (IStructuredSelection) getContext().getSelection();
            boolean hasClosedProjects = false;
            Iterator resources = selection.iterator();
    
            while (resources.hasNext() &amp;&amp; (!hasClosedProjects)) {
                Object next = resources.next();
                IProject project = null;
    
                if (next instanceof IProject) {
                    project = (IProject) next;
                } else if (next instanceof IAdaptable) {
                    project = (IProject) ((IAdaptable) next).getAdapter(IProject.class);
                }
    
                if (project == null) {
                    continue;
                }
    
                if (!project.isOpen()) {
                    hasClosedProjects = true;
                }
            }
    
            if (!hasClosedProjects) {
                refreshAction.selectionChanged(selection);
                menu.appendToGroup(ICommonMenuConstants.GROUP_BUILD, refreshAction);
            }
        }
    
        protected void makeActions() {
            IShellProvider sp = new IShellProvider() {
                @SuppressWarnings(&quot;synthetic-access&quot;)
                @Override
                public Shell getShell() {
                    return shell;
                }
            };
    
            refreshAction = new RefreshAction(sp) {
                @Override
                public void run() {
                    final IStatus[] errorStatus = new IStatus[1];
                    errorStatus[0] = Status.OK_STATUS;
                    final WorkspaceModifyOperation op = (WorkspaceModifyOperation) createOperation(errorStatus);
                    WorkspaceJob job = new WorkspaceJob(&quot;refresh&quot;) { //$NON-NLS-1$
    
                        @SuppressWarnings(&quot;synthetic-access&quot;)
                        @Override
                        public IStatus runInWorkspace(IProgressMonitor monitor) throws CoreException {
                            try {
                                op.run(monitor);
                                if (shell != null &amp;&amp; !shell.isDisposed()) {
                                    shell.getDisplay().asyncExec(new Runnable() {
                                        @Override
                                        public void run() {
                                            StructuredViewer viewer = getActionSite().getStructuredViewer();
                                            if (viewer != null &amp;&amp; viewer.getControl() != null &amp;&amp; !viewer.getControl().isDisposed()) {
                                                viewer.refresh();
                                            }
                                        }
                                    });
                                }
                            } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
                                String msg = NLS.bind(&quot;Exception in {0}. run: {1}&quot;, getClass().getName(), e.getTargetException());
                                throw new CoreException(new Status(IStatus.ERROR, Activator.PLUGIN_ID, IStatus.ERROR, msg, e
                                        .getTargetException()));
                            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                                return Status.CANCEL_STATUS;
                            }
                            return errorStatus[0];
                        }
    
                    };
                    ISchedulingRule rule = op.getRule();
                    if (rule != null) {
                        job.setRule(rule);
                    }
                    job.setUser(true);
                    job.schedule();
                }
            };
            refreshAction.setDisabledImageDescriptor(getImageDescriptor(&quot;icons/refresh_nav_disabled.gif&quot;));//$NON-NLS-1$
            refreshAction.setImageDescriptor(getImageDescriptor(&quot;icons/refresh_nav_enabled.gif&quot;));//$NON-NLS-1$
            refreshAction.setActionDefinitionId(IWorkbenchCommandConstants.FILE_REFRESH);
        }
    
        /**
         * Returns the image descriptor with the given relative path.
         */
        protected ImageDescriptor getImageDescriptor(String relativePath) {
            return Activator.getIDEImageDescriptor(relativePath);
    
        }
    
        @Override
        public void updateActionBars() {
            IStructuredSelection selection = (IStructuredSelection) getContext().getSelection();
            refreshAction.selectionChanged(selection);
        }
    
    }
    

    I removed any code that did not contribute to the goal: make RefreshAction work. I changed comments as well.

    Yes, there is a compile error in CustomRefreshActionProvider.getImageDescriptor(). To fix that we have to add the following method to customnavigator.Activator:

    public class Activator extends AbstractUIPlugin {
    ...
        public static ImageDescriptor getIDEImageDescriptor(String imagePath) {
            return AbstractUIPlugin.imageDescriptorFromPlugin(Activator.PLUGIN_ID, imagePath);
        }
    }
    

    Compile error fixed.

    In order for the CustomRefreshActionProvider to be called we have to add an entry under org.eclipse.ui.navigator.viewer –> customnavigator.navigator (viewerActionBinding):

    • org.eclipse.ui.navigator.viewer –> customnavigator.navigator (viewerActionBinding) –> (includes) –> New –> actionExtension and change pattern to:
      • pattern: customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomRefreshAction

    Again, notice the use of the id, not the class name. Could I simple have one entry for all of these action providers by putting in a pattern of customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.*? Of course, but where’s the fun in that (in other words, use that kind of pattern once you understand why you are using it. Until then, create individual entries)?

  11. Start the runtime workbench and check that the expected popup menus appears when there is nothing displayed in the navigator. Exit the runtime workbench.

    For those of you wondering when we added support for F5: the key binding is added by RefreshAction.
  12. Add Refresh icons
    method makeActions() is looking for an enabled and a disabled image for Refresh. Add the following images to your customnavigator icon folder:

    refresh_nav_enabled.gif:

    refresh_nav_disabled.gif:

  13. Start the runtime workbench and check that the expected popup menus appears when there is nothing displayed in the navigator. Exit the runtime workbench.

What Just Happened?

So we took a few steps back and a few steps forward.

  • We removed the plugin.xml entries that reconfigured the default popup.
  • We created a new popup menu definition with insertion points.
  • We declared and implemented two action providers: New and Refresh.
  • We declared two action extensions that referred to the action providers.
  • We declared a commonWizard entry to add the New Custom Project Wizard to the New popup menu.

Not bad for a post that I just couldn’t find the time for. For some reason it felt like a lot to do to create a new default menu. Adding the other items will be much simpler. I hope.

In other news: some of you may have noticed that in past posts I occasionally mentioned Deployment files as a feature. I am easily confused. The only things we are going to do are Custom Projects, Schemas and Stored Procedures. Any references to anything else are red herrings, blind alleys, and otherwise dead ends. Avoid them unless you are intent on finding a place to sleep.

References

Building a Common Navigator based viewer, Part III: Configuring Menus

Code

Activator.java

package customnavigator;

import org.eclipse.jface.resource.ImageDescriptor;
import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Image;
import org.eclipse.ui.plugin.AbstractUIPlugin;
import org.osgi.framework.BundleContext;

/**
 * The activator class controls the plug-in life cycle
 */
public class Activator extends AbstractUIPlugin {

	// The plug-in ID
	public static final String PLUGIN_ID = "customnavigator"; //$NON-NLS-1$

	// The shared instance
	private static Activator plugin;
	
	/**
	 * The constructor
	 */
	public Activator() {
	    // empty for now
	}

	/*
	 * (non-Javadoc)
	 * @see org.eclipse.ui.plugin.AbstractUIPlugin#start(org.osgi.framework.BundleContext)
	 */
	@Override
    public void start(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
		super.start(context);
		plugin = this;
	}

	/*
	 * (non-Javadoc)
	 * @see org.eclipse.ui.plugin.AbstractUIPlugin#stop(org.osgi.framework.BundleContext)
	 */
	@Override
    public void stop(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
		plugin = null;
		super.stop(context);
	}

	/**
	 * Returns the shared instance
	 *
	 * @return the shared instance
	 */
	public static Activator getDefault() {
		return plugin;
	}

    public static Image getImage(String imagePath) {
        ImageDescriptor imageDescriptor = AbstractUIPlugin.imageDescriptorFromPlugin(Activator.PLUGIN_ID, imagePath);
        Image image = imageDescriptor.createImage();

        return image;
    }

    public static ImageDescriptor getIDEImageDescriptor(String imagePath) {
        return AbstractUIPlugin.imageDescriptorFromPlugin(Activator.PLUGIN_ID, imagePath);
    }
}

CustomNewActionProvider.java

/**
 * Coder beware: this code is not warranted to do anything. 
 * Some or all of this code is taken from the Eclipse code base.
 *
 * Copyright Mar 28, 2010 Carlos Valcarcel
 */
package customnavigator.popup.actionprovider;

import org.eclipse.jface.action.IMenuManager;
import org.eclipse.jface.action.MenuManager;
import org.eclipse.jface.action.Separator;
import org.eclipse.ui.IWorkbenchWindow;
import org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI;
import org.eclipse.ui.actions.ActionFactory;
import org.eclipse.ui.navigator.CommonActionProvider;
import org.eclipse.ui.navigator.ICommonActionExtensionSite;
import org.eclipse.ui.navigator.ICommonMenuConstants;
import org.eclipse.ui.navigator.ICommonViewerWorkbenchSite;
import org.eclipse.ui.navigator.WizardActionGroup;

/**
 * Provides the new (artifact creation) menu options for a context menu.
 * 
 * <p>
 * The added submenu has the following structure
 * </p>
 * 
 * <ul>
 * <li>a set of context sensitive wizard shortcuts (as defined by
 * <b>org.eclipse.ui.navigator.commonWizard</b>), </li>
 * <li>another separator, </li>
 * <li>a generic "Other" new wizard shortcut action</li>
 * </ul>
 * 
 * @since 3.2
 * 
 */
public class CustomNewActionProvider extends CommonActionProvider {

    private static final String NEW_MENU_NAME = "common.new.menu";//$NON-NLS-1$

    private ActionFactory.IWorkbenchAction showDlgAction;

    private WizardActionGroup newWizardActionGroup;

    private boolean contribute = false;

    @Override
    public void init(ICommonActionExtensionSite anExtensionSite) {

        if (anExtensionSite.getViewSite() instanceof ICommonViewerWorkbenchSite) {
            IWorkbenchWindow window = ((ICommonViewerWorkbenchSite) anExtensionSite.getViewSite()).getWorkbenchWindow();
            showDlgAction = ActionFactory.NEW.create(window);

            newWizardActionGroup = new WizardActionGroup(window, PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getNewWizardRegistry(), WizardActionGroup.TYPE_NEW, anExtensionSite.getContentService());

            contribute = true;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Adds a submenu to the given menu with the name "group.new" see
     * {@link ICommonMenuConstants#GROUP_NEW}). The submenu contains the following structure:
     * 
     * <ul>
     * <li>a set of context sensitive wizard shortcuts (as defined by
     * <b>org.eclipse.ui.navigator.commonWizard</b>), </li>
     * <li>another separator, </li>
     * <li>a generic "Other" new wizard shortcut action</li>
     * </ul>
     */
    @Override
    public void fillContextMenu(IMenuManager menu) {
        IMenuManager submenu = new MenuManager(
                Messages.CustomNewActionProvider_popupNewLabel,
                NEW_MENU_NAME);
        if(!contribute) {
            return;
        }

        // fill the menu from the commonWizard contributions
        newWizardActionGroup.setContext(getContext());
        newWizardActionGroup.fillContextMenu(submenu);

        submenu.add(new Separator(ICommonMenuConstants.GROUP_ADDITIONS));

        // Add other ..
        submenu.add(new Separator());
        submenu.add(showDlgAction);

        // append the submenu after the GROUP_NEW group.
        menu.insertAfter(ICommonMenuConstants.GROUP_NEW, submenu);
    }

    /* (non-Javadoc)
     * @see org.eclipse.ui.actions.ActionGroup#dispose()
     */
    @Override
    public void dispose() {
        if (showDlgAction!=null) {
            showDlgAction.dispose();
            showDlgAction = null;
        }
        super.dispose();
    }
}

CustomRefreshActionProvider.java

/**
 * Coder beware: this code is not warranted to do anything. 
 * Some or all of this code is taken from the Eclipse code base.
 * 
 * Copyright Apr 4, 2010 Carlos Valcarcel
 */
package customnavigator.popup.actionprovider;

import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.util.Iterator;

import org.eclipse.core.resources.IProject;
import org.eclipse.core.resources.WorkspaceJob;
import org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException;
import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IAdaptable;
import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IProgressMonitor;
import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IStatus;
import org.eclipse.core.runtime.Status;
import org.eclipse.core.runtime.jobs.ISchedulingRule;
import org.eclipse.jface.action.IMenuManager;
import org.eclipse.jface.resource.ImageDescriptor;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.IStructuredSelection;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer;
import org.eclipse.jface.window.IShellProvider;
import org.eclipse.osgi.util.NLS;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;
import org.eclipse.ui.IActionBars;
import org.eclipse.ui.IWorkbenchCommandConstants;
import org.eclipse.ui.actions.ActionFactory;
import org.eclipse.ui.actions.RefreshAction;
import org.eclipse.ui.actions.WorkspaceModifyOperation;
import org.eclipse.ui.navigator.CommonActionProvider;
import org.eclipse.ui.navigator.ICommonActionExtensionSite;
import org.eclipse.ui.navigator.ICommonMenuConstants;

import customnavigator.Activator;

/**
 * The bulk of this code is taken from
 * org.eclipse.ui.internal.navigator.resources.actions.ResourceMgmtActionProvider
 * which is provided with Eclipse in case you want to look up the original.
 * 
 * @author carlos
 */
public class CustomRefreshActionProvider extends CommonActionProvider {

    private RefreshAction refreshAction;

    private Shell         shell;

    /*
     * (non-Javadoc)
     * @see
     * org.eclipse.ui.navigator.CommonActionProvider#init(org.eclipse.ui.navigator.ICommonActionExtensionSite)
     */
    @Override
    public void init(ICommonActionExtensionSite aSite) {
        super.init(aSite);
        shell = aSite.getViewSite().getShell();
        makeActions();
    }

    @Override
    public void fillActionBars(IActionBars actionBars) {
        actionBars.setGlobalActionHandler(ActionFactory.REFRESH.getId(), refreshAction);
        updateActionBars();
    }

    /**
     * Adds the refresh resource actions to the context menu.
     * 
     * @param menu
     * context menu to add actions to
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
    @Override
    public void fillContextMenu(IMenuManager menu) {
        IStructuredSelection selection = (IStructuredSelection) getContext().getSelection();
        boolean hasClosedProjects = false;
        Iterator resources = selection.iterator();

        while (resources.hasNext() && (!hasClosedProjects)) {
            Object next = resources.next();
            IProject project = null;

            if (next instanceof IProject) {
                project = (IProject) next;
            } else if (next instanceof IAdaptable) {
                project = (IProject) ((IAdaptable) next).getAdapter(IProject.class);
            }

            if (project == null) {
                continue;
            }

            if (!project.isOpen()) {
                hasClosedProjects = true;
            }
        }
        
        if (!hasClosedProjects) {
            refreshAction.selectionChanged(selection);
            menu.appendToGroup(ICommonMenuConstants.GROUP_BUILD, refreshAction);
        }
    }

    protected void makeActions() {
        IShellProvider sp = new IShellProvider() {
            @SuppressWarnings("synthetic-access")
            @Override
            public Shell getShell() {
                return shell;
            }
        };

        refreshAction = new RefreshAction(sp) {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                final IStatus[] errorStatus = new IStatus[1];
                errorStatus[0] = Status.OK_STATUS;
                final WorkspaceModifyOperation op = (WorkspaceModifyOperation) createOperation(errorStatus);
                WorkspaceJob job = new WorkspaceJob("refresh") { //$NON-NLS-1$

                    @SuppressWarnings("synthetic-access")
                    @Override
                    public IStatus runInWorkspace(IProgressMonitor monitor) throws CoreException {
                        try {
                            op.run(monitor);
                            if (shell != null && !shell.isDisposed()) {
                                shell.getDisplay().asyncExec(new Runnable() {
                                    @Override
                                    public void run() {
                                        StructuredViewer viewer = getActionSite().getStructuredViewer();
                                        if (viewer != null && viewer.getControl() != null && !viewer.getControl().isDisposed()) {
                                            viewer.refresh();
                                        }
                                    }
                                });
                            }
                        } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
                            String msg = NLS.bind(Messages.CustomRefreshActionProvider_invocationTargetExceptionMessage, getClass().getName(), e.getTargetException());
                            throw new CoreException(new Status(IStatus.ERROR, Activator.PLUGIN_ID, IStatus.ERROR, msg, e
                                    .getTargetException()));
                        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                            return Status.CANCEL_STATUS;
                        }
                        return errorStatus[0];
                    }

                };
                ISchedulingRule rule = op.getRule();
                if (rule != null) {
                    job.setRule(rule);
                }
                job.setUser(true);
                job.schedule();
            }
        };
        refreshAction.setDisabledImageDescriptor(getImageDescriptor("icons/refresh_nav_disabled.gif"));//$NON-NLS-1$
        refreshAction.setImageDescriptor(getImageDescriptor("icons/refresh_nav_enabled.gif"));//$NON-NLS-1$
        refreshAction.setActionDefinitionId(IWorkbenchCommandConstants.FILE_REFRESH);
    }

    /**
     * Returns the image descriptor with the given relative path.
     */
    protected ImageDescriptor getImageDescriptor(String relativePath) {
        return Activator.getIDEImageDescriptor(relativePath);

    }

    @Override
    public void updateActionBars() {
        IStructuredSelection selection = (IStructuredSelection) getContext().getSelection();
        refreshAction.selectionChanged(selection);
    }

}

Messages.java

package customnavigator.popup.actionprovider;

import org.eclipse.osgi.util.NLS;

public class Messages extends NLS {
    private static final String BUNDLE_NAME = "customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.messages"; //$NON-NLS-1$
    public static String        CustomNewActionProvider_popupNewLabel;
    public static String CustomRefreshActionProvider_invocationTargetExceptionMessage;
    static {
        // initialize resource bundle
        NLS.initializeMessages(BUNDLE_NAME, Messages.class);
    }

    private Messages() {
    }
}

messages.properties

CustomNewActionProvider_popupNewLabel=New
CustomRefreshActionProvider_invocationTargetExceptionMessage=Exception in {0}. run: {1}

plugin.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?eclipse version="3.4"?>
<plugin>
   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.ui.views">
      <category
            id="customnavigator.category"
            name="%category.name">
      </category>
      <view
            allowMultiple="false"
            category="customnavigator.category"
            class="org.eclipse.ui.navigator.CommonNavigator"
            icon="icons/navigator.png"
            id="customnavigator.navigator"
            name="%view.name">
      </view>
   </extension>
   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.ui.navigator.viewer">
      <viewer
            viewerId="customnavigator.navigator">
         <popupMenu
               id="customnavigator.navigator#PopupMenu">
            <insertionPoint
                  name="group.new">
            </insertionPoint>
            <insertionPoint
                  name="group.build"
                  separator="true">
            </insertionPoint>
         </popupMenu>
      </viewer>
      <viewerContentBinding
            viewerId="customnavigator.navigator">
         <includes>
            <contentExtension
                  pattern="customnavigator.navigatorContent">
            </contentExtension>
         </includes>
      </viewerContentBinding>
      <viewerActionBinding
            viewerId="customnavigator.navigator">
         <includes>
            <actionExtension
                  pattern="customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomNewAction">
            </actionExtension>
            <actionExtension
                  pattern="customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomRefreshAction">
            </actionExtension>
         </includes>
      </viewerActionBinding>
   </extension>
   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.ui.navigator.navigatorContent">
      <navigatorContent
            activeByDefault="true"
            contentProvider="customnavigator.navigator.ContentProvider"
            id="customnavigator.navigatorContent"
            labelProvider="customnavigator.navigator.LabelProvider"
            name="%navigatorContent.name">
         <triggerPoints>
            <instanceof
                  value="org.eclipse.core.resources.IWorkspaceRoot">
            </instanceof>
         </triggerPoints>
         <commonSorter
               class="customnavigator.sorter.SchemaCategorySorter"
               id="customnavigator.sorter.schemacategorysorter">
            <parentExpression>
               <or>
                  <instanceof
                        value="customnavigator.navigator.CustomProjectSchema">
                  </instanceof>
               </or>
            </parentExpression>
         </commonSorter>
      </navigatorContent>
      <actionProvider
            class="customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomNewActionProvider"
            id="customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomNewAction">
         <enablement>
            <or>
               <adapt
                     type="org.eclipse.core.resources.IResource">
               </adapt>
               <adapt
                     type="java.util.Collection">
                  <count
                        value="0">
                  </count>
               </adapt>
            </or>
         </enablement>
      </actionProvider>
      <actionProvider
            class="customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomRefreshActionProvider"
            id="customnavigator.popup.actionprovider.CustomRefreshAction">
         <enablement>
            <or>
               <adapt
                     type="org.eclipse.core.resources.IResource">
               </adapt>
               <adapt
                     type="java.util.Collection">
                  <count
                        value="0">
                  </count>
               </adapt>
            </or>
         </enablement>
      </actionProvider>
      <commonWizard
            type="new"
            wizardId="customplugin.wizard.new.custom">
         <enablement></enablement>
      </commonWizard>
   </extension>

</plugin>

MANIFEST.MF

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2
Bundle-Name: %Bundle-Name
Bundle-SymbolicName: customnavigator;singleton:=true
Bundle-Version: 1.0.2.0
Bundle-Activator: customnavigator.Activator
Require-Bundle: org.eclipse.ui,
 org.eclipse.core.runtime,
 org.eclipse.core.resources,
 org.eclipse.ui.ide;bundle-version="3.6.0",
 org.eclipse.ui.navigator,
 customplugin;bundle-version="1.0.1"
Bundle-ActivationPolicy: lazy
Bundle-RequiredExecutionEnvironment: JavaSE-1.6
Export-Package: customnavigator,
 customnavigator.navigator,
 customnavigator.popup.actionprovider,
 customnavigator.sorter

Duck and Cover: Asteroids…Coming to a Crater Near You

March 27, 2010 5 comments

This post makes the cat nervous. As it should.

I was in Seattle this past week at a work-related conference [this is not what makes the cat nervous though simply thinking about work does it for me]. During a rant discussion I was having with my colleagues I mentioned something that I am fond of bringing up simply for its shock value and to prove that we live with our heads in the ground. As a side-effect of having colleagues who are much more technical than I they will typically call me on many of my facts opinions and then I have to prove that I was not just trying to win a bet argument, but making a salient point of utter importance to no one in particular the human race.

Which brings me to today’s rant post.

Asteroids. They are the stuff of legend, cartoons and movies.

We don’t really care all that much about asteroids even though they do bring with them the risk of the end of the world…or as we like to call it back home: last call at the bar.

This week’s disputed fact: did the Earth miss becoming an omelet by 6 hours back in 1989 (I originally stated 1987, but the year was not the point in dispute; the actual event was so I won’t go to Trivial Pursuit prison for being off by 2 years)?

The answer is…drum roll, please…yes (also known as I Was Right). To quote from CNN Interactive:

On March 23, 1989, an asteroid about a half-mile wide crossed the Earth’s orbit about 400,000 miles from Earth. The Earth had been in that same spot a mere six hours earlier.

[Scroll down to the fifth paragraph..or use Find on your browser (you know, Ctrl+F. Press the Control key and the F key at the same time…you know, with two fingers…preferably with one hand…one hand…that’s two. Whatever).]

Score! Second source confirmation! And CNN no less, not that bastion of truth the National Enquirer.

So, in case no one caught the real point of the factoid: we missed the End of the World party by 6 hours. 6 hours! You see? There are advantages to being fashionably late…or not showing up at all.

According to the Wikipedia article on near-earth objects (and everything in Wikipedia is true, isn’t it?):

If the asteroid had impacted it would have created the largest explosion in recorded history, thousands of times more powerful than the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear bomb ever exploded by man.

[Perhaps Daniel Faraday should have used Tsar Bomba instead of Jughead to better effect…oh, wait, he succeeded. Never mind.]

Also from the above CNN story:

On October 9, 1992, a meteorite smashed through the rear end of a car in Peekskill, New York. No one was hurt, but the Chevy Malibu was totaled.

The GEICO gecko must have been quite upset; I’m sure the Malibu wasn’t thrilled either.

In the course of looking for stories about the 1989 near-collision I came across another interesting story: Australia, the wonderful land down under, almost hosted its own End-of-the-World rehearsal:

At 12.40 yesterday morning, as the city slept, a previously unknown asteroid swept about 60,000 kilometres over the south-western Pacific.

In astronomical terms it was a close call. Estimated to be between 30 metres and 50 metres wide, it passed almost seven times closer than the moon.

In 1908 an object possibly up to 50 metres across flattened some 2000 square kilometres of Siberian forest.

The above happened…wait for it…March 2, 2010. Yes, that was just over 3 weeks ago. An object close to, or equivalent to, the Tunguska meteor, missed Earth by 37,283 miles. Before you think that is plenty far reread what the article stated: that is almost seven times closer than the moon (for the mathematically challenged: the moon, on average, is 238,857 miles from the Earth. If the Australian meteor missed us by 37, 283 miles that means that it was 1/6.4 the distance to the moon…in other words less than 1/7 of the distance to the moon). Not exactly walking distance, but in astronomical terms the bullet missed us because we breathed in instead of out.

So how does this affect the human race and you in particular? For most of you: not at all. Go back to drinking.

For the rest of you: if you are wondering if anyone on this planet is even looking at stray pieces of rock heading our way the answer is also yes. NASA published a 115-page paper titled Spaceguard Survey which discusses the hazards of asteroid and comet impacts. Any person or group that scans the skies for large near-earth objects is considered to be part of the Spaceguard goal; in other words we spend more money on candy bars than on figuring out how to avoid joining the dinosaurs.

BTW, 1989FC, the official name of the March 1989 asteroid, is four times larger than the Tunguska meteoroid. It crosses our path again in 2012. Maybe the Mayans were right. Watch the skies!

The cat is happy to be in the box.

The Importance of Gloating

There is an old saying: would you rather be happy or right? Fighting about these things is counter-productive; be both.

[Update 12/31/11: Feel like helping track near-earth asteroids? Go to http://orbit.psi.edu/oah/ and donate your spare computer time using BOINC software!]

Interesting Pictures

The fireball produced by the Tsar Bomba: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tsar01.jpg

Interesting Articles

The CNN Interactive article: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9803/12/collision/index.html

Australian Meteor Craters: http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/trek/4wd/Over11.htm

Tunguska Event: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

Dealing with the Threat of an Asteroid Striking the Earth, April 1990 (mentions the March 1989 asteroid): http://pdf.aiaa.org/downloads/publicpolicypositionpapers/Asteroid-1990.pdf

When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombies Infection: http://www.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~rsmith/Zombies.pdf (okay, so this has nothing to do with meteors or asteroids. The title of this section is Interesting Articles not Interesting Articles That Have Nothing to Do with Zombies.)

ZOMBIE ATTACK, Disaster Preparedness Simulation: http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~jybarra/zombieplan.pdf (read previous rationalization)

Categories: Incoherent, Miscellaneous