[news.eclipse.dtp] Re: About navigatorContent in connectivity

[Brian Fitzpatrick <bfitzpat@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jue Wu wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I'm in trouble with the overriding problem of extension 
> "org.eclipse.ui.navigator.navigatorContent" which its id is 
> "org.eclipse.datatools.connectivity.db.sqlModelContent" in plug-in 
> "org.eclipse.datatools.connectivity.sqm.server.ui". And its 
> triggerPoints contains SQLObject and IVirtualNode.
>
> When i expand the SQLObject/Virtual Node of a specific databases, this 
> navigatorContent in connectivity would be triggered always and the 
> getChildren() method would return empty array first and then the 
> children would be fetched and added by another job named LoadingJob. I 
> want to intercept the children fetched by suppressed extension when i 
> override this navigatorContent extension, but I can only get empty 
> children because the children was added by another job.
>
> Should a non-loading node mechanism be provided? Should the trigger 
> policy be reconsidered? Or there is another solution.
> Thanks.
I believe we've used the IPipelinedTreeContentProvider interface in the 
past to inject items into the tree at various times. You might look for 
uses of that interface 
(http://help.eclipse.org/stable/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/reference/api/org/eclipse/jface/viewers/ITreeContentProvider.html)

Sorry I can't be more help.
--Fitz