Re: [e4-dev] Gettng the model service

[Jonas Helming <jonas.helming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are use cases, where you run an e4 application, but some parts are not directly able to access the IEclipseContext. Especially if a framework is single sourced between e4 and 3.x
As an example I had the following case: An application provides a extension mechnism which action should be triggered on double clicking an element. The extension point allows to implement a simple interface (Opener):

open(Object object)

In case of 3.x I want to open an editor by default. In case of e4, I want to open a Part. As the core does not know about e4, I don't have any IEclipseContext in the e4 Opener. I can therefore not directly retrieve an EPartService.

Cheers

Jonas

Am 23.01.2014 14:58, schrieb Paul Webster:

Hi Wim,

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 6:16 AM, Wim Jongman <wim.jongman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well, it is not my current use case... But yes. I was thinking about headless applications (e.g. all Eclipse RT related stuff) with the model and the DI framework. So it would be nice if I could get a hold of these services from outside of the org.eclipse.ui realm. 

In that case whoever wrote the headless app would have been responsible for creating the Eclipse4 application and model and runtime contexts (the renderers create these when using E4Application), and you would have to negotiate with them on how to access the model root and appropriate IEclipseContext.

PW

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