On 31-Jan-2012, at 3:22 PM, Tom Schindl wrote:
> Hi Lars,
>
> I'm not 100% I really understand what you are suggesting here? Is that
> the tooling generates constants in an extra class?
>
> I'm also not sure what the URL modelid:// is good for? Did you e.g. know
> that you can simply use XPath on EMF-Models (we don't ship the bundle
> but it's part of the e4-git-repo).
>
> I think you need to elaborate a bit more, so that I can understand what
> you propose and how it could be implemented.
>
> Tom
>
> Am 30.01.12 23:12, schrieb Lars Vogel:
>> Hi,
>>
>> one thing I like about Android programming, is that you can refer to
>> static strings for ID's in a XML file (layout file) as well as in Java
>> code. In the layout file you use @id/button1to point to a ID defined in
>> a file.
>>
>> In your Android coding you could reference the ID via a static string.
>> This removes the issue that you may have typos either in your coding or
>> in your layout and allows consistent refactoring of ID's.
>>
>> One of the issues I believe still exists in todays Eclipse 4 plug-in
>> development, is that you have to define a ID twice, once in your
>> application model and at least once in your coding.
>>
>> I really liked the change to bundleclass:// in M5.
>>
>> Perhaps we could introduce another URI for ID which could be referred to
>> an ID defined in a file, e.g.
>>
>> modelid://Bundle-SymbolicName/path/filename.extension/id
>>
>> And add another annotation, like @ID, which allows to annotate static
>> strings and to mark them a ID's which could be used in the model as well
>> in the coding.
>>
>> @ID
>> public static final String part1 = "com.example.test.part1".
>>
>> Would that be helpful? Is it worth to open a enhancement request for this?
>>
>> Best regards, Lars
>> --
>> Lars
>>
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