Bug 369442

Summary:	Allow document-relative problem indices in validation API
Product:	[ECD] Orion (Archived)	Reporter:	Mark Macdonald <mamacdon>
Component:	Client	Assignee:	Mark Macdonald <mamacdon>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	Keywords:	noteworthy
Version:	0.4
Target Milestone:	4.0 M1
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Mark Macdonald

2012-01-23 15:10:38 EST

Orion I20120122-2230

The orion.edit.validator service [1] expects problem locations to be given as a line number plus 'start' and 'end' offsets into the line.

This is rather inconvenient because it forces validators to track line numbers, which sometimes requires an extra step if you're getting output from a tool that ignores line breaks.

We should allow the 'line' parameter to be omitted, which should cause 'start', 'end' to be interpreted as document offsets.

[1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Orion/Documentation/Developer_Guide/Plugging_into_the_editor#orion.edit.validator

Comment 1 Mark Macdonald

2013-07-17 17:21:12 EDT

This is now supported:
http://git.eclipse.org/c/orion/org.eclipse.orion.client.git/commit/?id=6c48a71

Updated the docs:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Orion/Documentation/Developer_Guide/Plugging_into_the_editor#orion.edit.validator

Also notable is that using document relative offsets allows you to generate a problem that spans several lines.