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ISearchQuery objects should be automatically stored on the close part of the search result view and restored at the open if the ISearchQuery implements serializable. Basically, if I perform some type of resource search for the word "test", storing the results is quite possibly too much data, but storing the ISearchQuery itself should be fine. This comes in handy when there is a common search you perform every time you load up the Eclipse APP. It is really important for my application to startup with the "Run last search" and search history to be populated on startup. I can't even figure out if there is a way to get a handle on the search query list to add to it without actually running the query on startup.
This is not planed in the near feature. Help would be welcome. I think you're right, the only thing to be stored would be the query. Restoring the history is not a big problem. Automatically restoring the search when the search page is loaded is not always desireable. So this should be configurable. Or as a alternative to an automatic restore, just show a link in the view 'Restore last search...'.
I'm interested in implementing this feature. I would like a little direction before I get started, though. First off, where should I be listening for the close event and where should I add the listener? Should I add it to SearchResultsPart in org.eclipse.help.ui.internal.views on the init method, or on the constructor? Should the listener be an application close event, or should it be a page close event? Second, where should I be serializing these queries? As in what file should I use? The IDialogSettings does not support object serialization, nor does the IPreferenceStore. Got any ideas?
That would be in the org.eclipse.search plugin (don't confuse with help search). I would persist the history every time it is modified. I would store it in an own file as it isn't a preference and not a view specific (multiple search views show the same history). Put the file inside 'SearchPlugin.getDefault().getStateLocation()' The search history is managed in org.eclipse.search2.internal.ui.QueryManager (fQueries) and I would add the persitence code directly in there.
*** Bug 277446 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Anything new in the subject?
>Anything new in the subject? Nope. Waiting for someone who provides a patch.
This should be an option I think (so if a user wants to preserve search results across restarts he should enable this in Preferences). Anyway : really nice feature.
