Bug 101033

Summary: [content assist] make content assist infrastructure more robust
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Tom Hofmann <eclipse>
Component: TextAssignee: Platform-Text-Inbox <platform-text-inbox>
Status: ASSIGNED --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: remy.suen
Version: 3.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: All   
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Description Tom Hofmann CLA 2005-06-21 08:56:02 EDT 
3.1-RC2

The content assist infrastructure uses the ICompletionProposal protocol that
allows downstream plug-ins to show proposals. CompletionProposalPopup (and
probably ContextInformationPopup) should 
 - guard itself against misbehaving implementations
 - ensure problems with a proposal implementation get logged
 - ensure content asssist stays operational in the presence of misbehaving
implementations.
Comment 1 Tom Hofmann CLA 2005-06-21 08:56:51 EDT 
See also bug 100795 for an example.
Comment 2 Dani Megert CLA 2006-03-21 09:08:16 EST 
Has to be shifted to 3.3.
Comment 3 Tom Hofmann CLA 2006-05-10 08:55:38 EDT 
See also bug 140750: a run-time exception while computing the additional info renders content assist hardly usable, because the Job infrastructure pops up a dialog every time a proposal is selected.
Comment 4 Tom Hofmann CLA 2006-05-10 09:06:41 EDT 
Created attachment 40929 [details]
AdditionalInfoController.java.diff

A patch that protects specifically against RuntimeExceptions thrown in
getAdditionalInfo(IProgressMonitor). These exceptions are worse than others,
because the job infrastructure pops up a dialog whenever an exception occurs,
while exceptions caught by the SWT thread are simply logged, but don't show a
dialog and hence do not interfere with code assist.
Comment 5 Tom Hofmann CLA 2006-05-11 05:18:36 EDT 
Separated the additional info issue into bug 141250.
Comment 6 Dani Megert CLA 2006-05-11 05:40:05 EDT 
We must revisit the fix for bug 141250 when fixing this one.
Comment 7 Remy Suen CLA 2008-01-10 18:52:14 EST 
Will this be looked at in 3.4?
Comment 8 Dani Megert CLA 2008-01-11 03:34:55 EST 
>Will this be looked at in 3.4?
Sorry, no resource for this.
Comment 9 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2019-09-06 16:07:43 EDT 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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