[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: Using CompilationUnitEditor without a .java

[Daniel Megert <daniel.megert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Coppit wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm implementing an editor for Java source code, where the source is 
> unpacked from another file. As a result, there is no .java resource in 
> the project. Can someone give me some guidance on how best to set up a 
> CompilationUnitEditor to code from a buffer in memory?

It should be sufficient to write your own editor input and then use 
IDE.openEditor(page, editorInput, editorID). What stopped this from working?

Dani

> Here's what I've done so far:
>
> - I created a new input derived from IStorageEditorInput.
> - I created a new document provider derived from StorageDocumentProvider.
> - I created a new editor derived from CompilationUnitEditor that sets 
> the document provider to my document provider in the constructor.
>
> What I'm fuzzy on is where exactly the file dependencies are. It's 
> pretty clear that CompilationUnitDocumentProvider assumes a file, and 
> that CompilationUnitEditor tests the document provider against 
> ICompilationUnitDocumentProvider. Is this the only file dependency in 
> CompilationUnitEditor? If so, would it be sufficient to have my 
> document provider implement ICompilationUnitDocumentProvider?
>
> Thanks,
> David