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Re: [platform-ui-dev] Re: Action Enablement

Given that these are "special attributes" of the marker, accessed by
calling getAttribute, do you think it is appropriate to prefix the
attribute id with a "special prefix" for accuracy?  This may reduce the
ambiguity between an attribute inherent to the IMarker interface, and those
retrieved via getAttribute.

IE: <filter name="getAttribute:xxx" value = "yyy"/>



                                                                                                            
                    "Randy Giffen/OTT/OTI"                                                                  
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All attributes are of type String, Integer, or Boolean. They have some
convience methods to return an int or a boolean if you know the type is an
Integer or Boolean.
I was going to convert Integers and Booleans to Strings before comparing
them with the value in the XML.
So I didn't think any extra name prefix is required.

                                                                           
   "David Springgay/OTT/OTI"                                               
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It looks like a marker attribute can be of type String, int, or boolean.
How do you plan to identify the attribute type and name in xml?  Would it
be something like this :

<filter name="intAttr:xxx" value = "999"/>
<filter name="stringAttr:yyy" value = "aaa"/>
<filter name="booleanAttr:zzz" value = "true | false"/>

Dave



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Karice and I are looking at F1 and "resolution" support for markers. In our
extension points for contributing F1 help context ids and resolution
classes we have to define a way of targeting a particular kind of marker.
This seems very similar to tarketing an action to a particular kind of
marker.

Curretly marker action targetting is based on the following keys:
DONE
MESSAGE
PRIORITY
SEVERITY
SUPER_TYPE
TYPE

Of these, SUPER_TYPE and TYPE are special, the remainer simply refer to
standard marker attributes.
I think we should extend marker filtering to be able to specify the value
any attribute.
Although we are still working out some details, I think this would allow us
to use the same extension point specification for marker F1 help, actions,
and resolutions.



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