[gmf-dev] API Change Request: Need to make GMFResource public

[Christian Damus <cdamus@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, all,

It has come to our (Runtime EMF) attention
that there are certain internal classes in the GMF Runtime that need to
be public so that clients can legally use them.  These are required
to allow client applications to customize the behaviour of the GMF resource
(there are clients doing this today in violation of the API rules).

We would like to move the following
classes to the org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.core.resources package:

  - GMFResource (clients are extending
it and using its load options)
  - GMFLoad, GMFHandler, GMFHelper
(clients extending GMFResource must extend these, also)
  - PathmapManager (to provide
system-defined URI mappings; publish only a small subset of the current
internal API)
  - AbortResourceLoadException
(clients throw it to terminate resource loading)

Please see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=137063
for details.  If there are no objections, we would like to make these
changes in next week's non-RC integration build.

Thanks,

Christian

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Christian W. Damus
Aurora Core Model Services
IBM Rational Software
Tel: (613) 591-7937
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