[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Extension points: get attributes info from d

[deam_38@xxxxxxxx (deam)]

deam wrote:

> Hi,

> If I define an extension point like this (Extension Point Creation Wizard):

> - extension
>     '----- sequence
>     '         '-----myPoint (1-*)
>     '----- point
>     '----- id
>     '----- name
> - myPoint 
>     '----- id    (type = string)
>     '----- class (type = java)
>     '----- icon  (type = resource)
>     '----- info  (type = string)

> If class is the user defined class (name) which extends an abstract class 
> (MyClass) that I defined.

> I would like to know how can I get the informations entered by the user of 
> my extension point (id, icon, info) from the source code of the abstract 
> class (MyClass).

> Thank you for any help.

> And if you have links to any interresting documents about extension 
> points...


I did find a way to answer to my problem but it musn't be THE good way 
since I use internal / deprecated methods. I've added the following piece 
of code in the start() method of my plugin Activator.

***********************************
IExtensionPoint[] extensionPoints = getDescriptor().getExtensionPoints();
		
ViewRegistry viewRegistry  = 
(ViewRegistry)getWorkbench().getViewRegistry();
		
for(IExtensionPoint extensionPoint : extensionPoints){
			
 IConfigurationElement[] configurationElements =
 extensionPoint.getConfigurationElements();
			
 for(int i=0; i<configurationElements.length; i++){			
   String[] attributeNames = configurationElements[i].getAttributeNames();
     
   String class = configurationElements[i].getAttribute("class");
   String icon = configurationElements[i].getAttribute("icon");
   String info = configurationElements[i].getAttribute("info");
 }
}
***********************************

After that, the 3 variables (class, icon, info) have the value that the 
user which implements my extension point did enter in its plugin.xml file