Bug 322689

Summary:	[resolver] stringVariablePresentation extension point requires impementation of internal interface
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Darin Wright <darin.eclipse>
Component:	Debug	Assignee:	Michael Rennie <Michael_Rennie>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, Michael_Rennie, pawel.1.piech
Version:	3.7	Keywords:	api
Target Milestone:	4.3 M6
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Darin Wright

2010-08-13 16:36:40 EDT

This looks like an oversight that has been around since 3.0:

The documentation for the extension point "org.eclipse.debug.ui.stringVariablePresentations" claims the extension must implement "org.eclipse.debug.ui.stringsubstitution.IArgumentSelector". However, there is no such interface. Instead there is an internal interface that is being used: "org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.stringsubstitution.IArgumentSelector".

We should update to an API interface so contributors can actually implement without warning, but leave the old behind for compatibility.

Comment 1 Michael Rennie

2012-02-28 16:50:21 EST

This is a simple API change that we should (finally) correct.

Comment 2 Dani Megert

2012-03-13 04:46:00 EDT

Is this still on the radar? M6 is API freeze and due this week.

Comment 3 Michael Rennie

2012-03-13 12:18:28 EDT

This is by no means critical, it can wait (again).

Comment 4 Pawel Piech

2013-02-13 12:13:11 EST

Mike, do you still want to target this for 4.3?

Comment 5 Michael Rennie

2013-02-21 16:27:14 EST

Pushed fix to:

http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.debug.git/commit/?id=cc6a544e78dbb27322e50e3777b530edce3f8a36

I left the old interface and had it extend the new one, updated refs to the new interface.

commit for JDT debug:

http://git.eclipse.org/c/jdt/eclipse.jdt.debug.git/commit/?id=f030c76d59c5502b8e2419a2a610b58a7762e815