[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Content types with 'multiple' extensions

[Ed Merks <Ed.Merks@xxxxxxxxx>]

Eugene,

Comments below.

Eugene Marcotte wrote:
> Makes sense.
> Out of curiosity, since it is limited to extensions or whole 
> filenames, then what is the point of supporting a "wildcard"? Could 
> you just have a checkbox for each content type to say "extension" vs 
> "full name."
Yes, I always found having to specify the * a little odd but I guess the 
"*." is a reasonable syntactic way to distinguish it from a full file name.
> I don't want to sound too cynical but letting me type wildcards makes 
> me want to actually have it match the wild cards :)
Seems a reasonable expectation, but keep in mind that this would in 
practice require pattern matching against each pattern-based content 
type rather than a table look up based on extension only or file name only.
> Oh well, I'll just add *.in and live with it for now :)
The path of least resistance. :-P
> See ya and thanks for listening!
> Eugene
>
> Ed Merks wrote:
>
> > Eugene,
>
> > I think it's more working as designed.  I could have a file like 
> > a.b.c.d so where exactly does the the file name end and the extension 
> > begin? I think the typical/standard definition is that only the last 
> > segment starting with "." is the extension.
>
>
> > Eugene Marcotte wrote:
> > > That sounds pretty logical. Do you think this qualifies as a bug or 
> > > is that the desired approach?
> > > Is there no way around it other than putting the full filename or 
> > > the .in extension, which i was hoping to avoid since there are 
> > > several other .in files that are not XML :)
> > > Thanks for your quick reply!
> > >
> > > Eugene
> > >
> > > Ed Merks wrote:
> > >
> > > > Eugene,
> > >
> > > > My guess would be that the extension matcher just looks for the 
> > > > last "." in the file name and for abc.jnlp.in would find ".in" 
> > > > which would match only against "*.in".
> > >
> > >
> > > > Eugene Marcotte wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I originally posted this in the webtools group, but they suggested 
> > > > > I try here.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm using Ganymede, on Fedora Core 9, 64 bit.
> > > > > I was just trying to edit a file using the XML editor, the file 
> > > > > does not end .xml or any of the other xml content types that are 
> > > > > listed by default. The dialog that came up told me to add the 
> > > > > content type for this file, so I did. I added "*.jnlp.in" under 
> > > > > xml and I also added *.jnlp while I was there.
> > > > >
> > > > > I went back to the file, and tried again. It still wouldn't open, 
> > > > > same exact message comes up. If I rename the file to end with just 
> > > > > .jnlp, it works fine and opens up in the XML editor. If I add 
> > > > > Test.jnlp.in (the full name of the file) to the content types, 
> > > > > tried again, and it opened right up. I just cannot have a 
> > > > > 'complex' file extension it seems.
> > > > >
> > > > > So, I guess my question is: is there a way to get this to work? 
> > > > > Alternatively, is there any way to simply turn off content type 
> > > > > checking? I mean, does the XML editor really care what the 
> > > > > extension of my file is so long as it can be parsed as XML? I 
> > > > > don't mind having to go to a file and say "Open with XML editor" 
> > > > > each time, if it will actually work.
> > > > > Thanks a bunch,
> > > > > Eugene