Re: [pde-dev] RE: how my builder knows compile errors existence

[Dan Rubel<dan_rubel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To get you started...
1. Use a project nature to associate your builder with a project.
2. Get the markers for the project and look for compilation errors to determine if the project was successfully compiled.

Mijung Kim  wrote on 9/9/08 2:19 am

>
>Hi, 
> 
>I am make an Eclipse builder 
>plugin that does some action 
>when a project is compiled 
>succesfully. 
> 
>I have a couple of questions 
>about an Eclipse builder as 
>following:
> 
>1. 
>In order to associate my 
>builder with a project, I made 
>an additional java files that 
>toggles the nature by adding 
>a command in the menu 
>shown when you right click 
>the project name. This is how 
>I trigger and disable my 
>builder. 
>However, this is not the way 
>that I want. I want to trigger 
>my builder just by running 
>my plugin. 
> 
>Is there any way that I can 
>associate my builder with a 
>project in such way? For 
>example, when you run my 
>builder, I want you to be able 
>to build your project with my 
>builder, without doing any 
>special action.
> 
>2. 
>My builder should do some 
>action only when a project is 
>compiled successfully. 
>Therefore, my builder has to 
>be aware whether the 
>project has compile errors 
>after build. 
> 
>Below is how I wrote the 
>builder.
>  try {   
>monitor.beginTask("Increme
>ntal build starting", 1);    
>getProject().build(Increment
>alProjectBuilder.INCREMENTA
>L_BUILD, monitor);   
>monitor.done();    } catch 
>(CoreException e) 
>{//compile error occured}
> I thought that build(...) 
>method throws an 
>CoreException when build 
>fails. (meaning when there is 
>a compile error) However, 
>even if there is an obvious 
>compile error in the project, 
>build(...) method does not 
>throw any CoreException in 
>my builder. 
>Could you tell me how I can 
>catch the existence of 
>compile errors in my builder?
> 
>Thank you very much.
> 
>MJ
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