[news.eclipse.dtp] Reusing the server explorer in a ContainerCheckedTree

[philippe.girard@xxxxxxxxx (Philippe Girard)]

Hi,

I am interested in becoming a contributor to the Datatools project. I'm a 
DBA and I am very much impressed with what has been done so far and I want 
to add features to the project.

One of these feature is a project nature for database. Instead of having 
to create a generic project this would be a dedicated project nature for 
databases.

I am currently developping the New Project wizard and on one of the wizard 
page I would like to display the SQL Model from the selected connection 
profile (I reused the ProfileSelectionComposite for selecting the 
connection) in a ContainerCheckedTreeViewer so that the user could select 
the database objects to export as DDL statement.

Of course to fill the ContainerCheckedTreeViewer I need a ContentProvider 
and a LabelProvider and I have been trying to reuse the existing 
SQLModelContentProviderExtension and SQLModelLabelProviderExtension. But I 
have not met much success so far. I get the first level built and then 
thrown an exception.

It looks like the existing classes are too tied to a CommonViewer class to 
be reused in a ContainerCheckedTreeViewer, but I might be mistaken and 
simply overlooking something. 

Anybody know if reusing any of the existing Content and Label provider 
could be reused in such a fashion ? 

Should I develop my own Content and Label provider to fill a 
ContainerCheckedTreeViewer (and then worry about having to support varying 
ContentExtensions...) ?

Any pointer would be much appreciated...

BTW the source code is hosted at sourceforge.net under the dtp-dbproject.