[wtp-dev] Validation component api changes

[Vijay Bhadriraju <vbhadrir@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Api Requirement and Implementation

We got a new requirement today for the
validation framework to expose the kind of build that is presently occurring
to the validator. The JSP validator was the validator that raised this
requirement so it can better handle the situation when an empty uri list
is being passed in through the IValidationContext::getURIs() to the validator
and the JSP Validator wanted to take an appropriate action based on the
build kind that was occurring.

To satisfy this api requirement we have
added an new api on IValidationContext :: public
int
getBuildKind(). This api returns
the kind of build that the BuildManager passes to the ValidationBuilder.
Now any validator that wants to take an action on a particular kind of
build (INCREMENTAL_BUILD or FULL_BUILD or AUTO_BUILD or CLEAN_BUILD) can
do so.

Api change effecting existing clients

Any implementer's of IValidationContext
need to implement this additional getBuildKind()
method and can just return 0 if they are not interested in knowing the
build kind. Users of default implementation of the IValidationContext i.e
WorkbenchContext will need not have to do anything and just use the api
if they need it in for their validator.

These changes are being released to
head now.

Thanks,

Regards, Vijay
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Vijay Bhadriraju                
                     
  
Rational Tools, J2EE Tooling            
 
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