Bug 517327

Summary:	Adding a new mechanism to filter parts, tool items and menu items
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Andreas Schwarz <andreas_schwarz1>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	moritz.aleithe, psuzzi
Version:	4.7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 10
Whiteboard:

Description Andreas Schwarz

2017-05-28 06:19:13 EDT

I have created a new mechanism to filter views, tool items and menu items in an e4 application because e4 still seems to miss full support to handle this task. I made a gerrit for the changes (https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/98101).

The basic idea of these changes is to provide a pluggable  hook that allows the developer to specify how to filter components. This could be for example custom tags in the model or a special interface that will be implemented by handlers or views, with no restrictions given from the framework.

I want to start a discussion if my idea is capable or if I missed something that allows me to handle the filtering of these components with the current features.

At last I want to mention that I haven't added tests because I didn't know where to place. Maybe you can give me a hint here.

Comment 1 Andreas Schwarz

2017-09-16 04:46:55 EDT

Any comment on this?

Comment 2 Moritz Aleithe

2017-11-06 01:54:19 EST

Patrik, can you please give any input on that one?