Bug 212323 - [Viewers] API request: PatternFilter
Summary: [Viewers] API request: PatternFilter
Status: NEW
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Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 3.4   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 enhancement (vote)
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Assignee: Platform UI Triaged CLA
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Reported: 2007-12-08 08:35 EST by Chuck Bridgham CLA
Modified: 2019-09-06 16:06 EDT (History)
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Description Chuck Bridgham CLA 2007-12-08 08:35:38 EST 
W are trying to take advantage of the FilteredTree api in place, but extending to use different types of viewers.

The caching mechanism in place on PatternFilter has a "package" visibility, and we would like to gain access to these methods from extended classes.

Can you please change these two methods to "protected"?
void clearCaches()
void setUseCache(boolean useCache)
Comment 1 Boris Bokowski CLA 2008-05-02 14:57:05 EDT 
Mass update - removing 3.4 target. This was one of the bugs I marked for investigation (and potential fixing) in 3.4 but I ran out of time. Please ping on the bug if fixing it would be really important for 3.4, and does not require API changes or feature work.
Comment 2 Chuck Bridgham CLA 2008-05-02 15:16:00 EDT 
We have a workaround for now... but would eventually like some of these classes more "extendable" in future releases
Comment 3 Boris Bokowski CLA 2008-05-02 15:20:11 EDT 
Susan hit similar issues while working on the p2 UI, and we are planning to look at this problem sometime in 3.5.
Comment 4 Boris Bokowski CLA 2009-11-26 09:49:31 EST 
Hitesh is now responsible for watching bugs in the [Viewers] component area.
Comment 5 Andre Ribeiro CLA 2010-03-19 10:52:23 EDT 
This would be very welcomed!

Please change these two methods to "protected"?
void org.eclipse.ui.dialogs.PatternFilter.clearCaches()
void org.eclipse.ui.dialogs.PatternFilter.setUseCache(boolean)
Comment 6 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2019-09-06 16:06:02 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.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.