Re: [orion-dev] Regarding Orion Web IDE PHP Editor (GSoC)

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Karol, welcome to Orion!

In Orion's current state, your summary
is right. There is currently a single styler for all file types and your
PHP styling would need to go there. For syntax checking and content assist,
there is similarly only a single service today. However in the plan for
our next milestone [1], there is work to create extension points to enable
arbitrary syntax colouring, checking, and content assist in a more extensible
way (for example different implementations for different editor types).


So the key question for you is, when
are you planning to do this work? Is it over the summer, or are you starting
now? If you are starting now, you can use the existing mechanisms, and
then whoever is doing the extension point work can help with refactoring
that into a more modular structure (separating PHP, JS, CSS, etc, into
separate contributions). If you are mostly planning to work over the summer,
you might want to wait for M7 (April 29th) when those extension points
are hopefully in place. Either way, it will be fantastic having a contributor
working on tooling for another language, because it will help us ensure
the Orion platform is truly extensible. Just keep in mind this is a very
early stage in the project so the road might be a bit more bumpy than on
an established platform like desktop Eclipse!

John

[1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Orion/Milestone_Plan

Karol Gusak <karol@xxxxxxxx>
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Hello,

My name is Karol and I'm interested in implementing Orion PHP Editor
as GSoC 2011 project. I know the idea principles thanks to extensive
reply from Jacek at pdt-dev [0]. I've read the wiki and looked into
the source and I'd like to ask you some more detailed questions about
implementation of PHP Editor features:

1) Syntax Coloring - as far as I understand there is styler.js in
client.editor bundle which handles all syntax coloring for any
language. So I should probably add keywords there and add a case in
editorContainer.js. I believe there isn't any plugin system for this
functionality yet?

2) Syntax checking - I should just bind my code to
IEditorSyntaxChecker service, right?

3) Content Assist - I could use eclipse.ContentAssist from
contentAssist.js to implement keyword completion. Then I could extend
it to support more sophisticated completion.

In general, I'd like to incorporate PDT on server side for content
assistance, code validation and maybe other features. I'm not sure yet
how to do it, I'm working on it...

I'd be glad for any comments :-).

[0] - http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/pdt-dev/msg01708.html

Regards,
Karol
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