[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Nature question

[Jacques.Leclercq@xxxxxxxx (Jacques Leclercq)]

John,

thank you for the explanation

Jacques

John Arthorne wrote:

> It may seem a bit strange, but there's a reason for it.  When a project 
> gets recreated (import from file system or checkout from repository), we 
> don't want to configure the nature a second time.  A nature is only 
> configured once in the lifetime of a project.  That's why it only 
> happens on setDescription.
> --


> Jacques Leclercq wrote:
> > Hi John,
> > 
> > My problem was I didn't call setDescription because I added the nature to
> > the 
> > description before calling projectHandle.create(description, null);
> > 
> >     ...
> >     //add the nature to project
> >     String[] nature = { GuimlNature.GUIML_NATURE_ID };
> >     description.setNatureIds(nature);	
> >     ...
> >     projectHandle.create(description, new SubProgressMonitor(monitor,
> > 1000));
> >     ...
> > 
> > In fact no explicit call to setDescription is done => so it was not a bug
> > but it would be better that it worked too.
> > I thought that the create will take into account all what was inside the
> > description.
> > 
> > Now I add the nature to description after the creation and do the call to
> > setDescription and in fact it works.
> > 
> >     ...
> >     projectHandle.create(description, new SubProgressMonitor(monitor,
> > 1000));
> >     ...
> >     //add the nature to project
> >     String[] nature = { GuimlNature.GUIML_NATURE_ID };
> >     description.setNatureIds(nature);	
> >     projectHandle.setDescription(description, null);
> >     ...
> > 
> > Thank you
> > Jacques
> >