[news.eclipse.modisco] Re: [Announce] Extended Model Browser

[Dimitris Kolovos <dskolovos@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Gabriel,

Looks great! Thanks for sharing this.

In fact I'd like to provide an extension to contribute custom names and 
icons to EObjects based on particular annotations in the respective 
EClasses (as per http://www.eclipse.org/gmt/epsilon/doc/Exeed.pdf). To 
do this, I would like to be able to specify my extensions not for a 
particular nsURI but for any nsURI.

In the current version, this is doesn't seem to be possible as each 
extension needs to define a specific nsURI (id). I was wondering if a 
future version of the editor could also provide support for a generic 
nsURI (e.g. "*") which I could use to define that my extension applies 
to any nsURI. In this case I suspect that the NameProvider and 
IconProvider interfaces might need to be enhanced to also support a 
providesName(EObject) and providesIcon(EObject) method respectively to 
allow such extensions specify exactly which EObjects they can provide 
names and icons for.

Any thoughts on this?

Cheers,
Dimitris

Gabriel wrote:
> Hello,
> And here we are, a first implementation of an extended model browser is 
> available from MoDisco :
>
> http://www.eclipse.org/gmt/modisco/toolBox/GenericModelEditor/
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/MoDisco/ModelBrowser
>
> Finally, new features may be found in this patch :
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=266425