Description Dmitry Stepanov 2013-09-13 07:23:50 EDT

I'd like to have a possibility to specify a per-resource string substitution variables (specifically, in "Project Properties", but would be useful if would be supported for any kind of resource), which would automatically become available to all of the run / external tool configurations.

A specific use case:
1) Define an External Tool to the Workspace ("My Tool"). Let's say it's path is "my_tool" and arguments are "--resource-arg=${arg_for_tool}"
2) Create project A, open "Project Properties", click "String Substitution", add a variable "arg_for_tool" with value "A";
3) Create project B, open "Project Properties", click "String Substitution", add a variable "arg_for_tool" with value "B";
4) Create project C and define no string substitution variables for it;
5) Focus any resource inside project A (or project A itself) and run the "My Tool" External Tool. The tool shall invoke "my_tool --resource-arg=A" command;
6) Focus any resource inside project B (or project B itself) and run the "My Tool" External Tool. The tool shall invoke "my_tool --resource-arg=B" command;
7) Focus any resource inside project C (or project B itself) and run the "My Tool" External Tool. You should see the "invalid variable my_tool" error message (or something similar that happens when you misspel a variable name);
8) If you add a workspace-wide string substitution variable "arg_for_tool" with value "W", the step 7 should invoke "my_tool --resource-arg=W" command.

Such feature would be very useful for defining common external tools which behave differently depending on the project being worked on / resource being kept in focus.