Re: [ptp-dev] Changes to PTP terminal

[Greg Watson <g.watson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you mean "what can it do", then the parser is called with every buffer of data that is sent from the remote host to the terminal. If the parse method returns true, the buffer will be displayed in the terminal. If the method returns false, nothing will be displayed.

If you mean “what does PTP use it for”, this is the basis of Steve’s integration of command line tools with GUI tools. PTP uses the parser to intercept a special escape sequence that is used to drive the UI from the command line. So by typing a command in the terminal, it is possible to pop up a dialog in the UI. Or it can record all commands that have been typed and provide a GUI version of the command history. 

Just to be clear, there are two parts to this. The (now) TM Remote Terminal part that just provides the extension point, and the PTP part which provides the extension that does the command line/UI integration.

Greg

> On Feb 9, 2015, at 1:44 PM, Doug Schaefer <DSchaefer@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> What does the parser do? For this of us who are not Steve ;)
> 
> On 2015-02-09, 12:56 PM, "Greg Watson" <g.watson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> This email is mainly for Steve, but I wanted to keep everyone in the loop.
>> 
>> I¹ve made some changes to the PTP terminal support in master. In summary,
>> these are:
>> 
>> 1. TM terminal support for remote services (org.eclipse.remote) has been
>> moved to the TM project, hereafter referred to as TM Remote Terminal.
>> 
>> 2. In order to support the same functionality provided by TM terminal, I
>> added an extension point to the TM Remote Terminal called ³parsers². A
>> parser must implement the
>> org.eclipse.m.terminal.remote.IRemoteTerminalParser interface. Basically,
>> this call a parse() method with the contents of every buffer from the
>> remote system. See the extension point and Javadoc for more information.
>> 
>> 3. The command handler (which allows a user to right-click on a
>> synchronized project and open a terminal) remains relatively unchanged.
>> 
>> Please take a look a these changes and let me know if everything is
>> working as expected. It¹s possible that I may have overlooked something
>> in the conversion.
>> 
>> We can also discuss this more tomorrow if anyone has questions or
>> concerns.
>> 
>> Greg
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