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Dependency Injection problem [message #1095680] Tue, 27 August 2013 11:38 Go to next message
Pim van Nierop is currently offline Pim van NieropFriend
Messages: 7
Registered: August 2013
Junior Member
Hi all,

I am creating a custom editor. It is based on an EditorPart and is registered in the plugin.xml under the org.eclipse.ui.editors extension point. This editor opens up fine with the appropriate file type. Next, I wanted to load the data in the file and fill the contents of the editor to reflect this. I try to do this using the e4 DI injection mechanism to get the currently selected iFile, but I cannot get his to work (injected fields 'ESelectionService selectionService' and 'IEclipseContext context' have a null value when I put a debug break in the createPartControl method). Here is the class sofar (I have removed the control creation bits):

package nl.cncr.synplot.e4.ui.plugin.editors;

import javax.inject.Inject;

import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IProgressMonitor;
import org.eclipse.e4.core.contexts.IEclipseContext;
import org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.modeling.ESelectionService;
import org.eclipse.ui.IEditorInput;
import org.eclipse.ui.IEditorSite;
import org.eclipse.ui.PartInitException;
import org.eclipse.ui.part.EditorPart;

public class DataSourceEditor extends EditorPart {
	
	public static final String ID = "nl.cncr.synplot.e4.ui.plugin.partdescriptor.datasourceeditor";
	
	@Inject
	ESelectionService selectionService;
	
	@Inject
	IEclipseContext context;

	@Override
	@PostConstruct
	public void createPartControl(Composite parent) {
		parent.setLayout(new FillLayout(SWT.HORIZONTAL));
		// here controls are created
	}


	@Override
	public void doSave(IProgressMonitor monitor) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
	}

	@Override
	public void doSaveAs() {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
	}

	@Override
	public void init(IEditorSite site, IEditorInput input)
			throws PartInitException {
		setSite(site);
		setInput(input);
	}

	@Override
	public boolean isDirty() {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		return false;
	}

	@Override
	public boolean isSaveAsAllowed() {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		return false;
	}

	@Override
	public void setFocus() {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
	}

}


My extension point looks like:
      <editor
            class="nl.cncr.synplot.e4.ui.plugin.editors.DataSourceEditor"
            default="false"
            extensions="datasource_xml"
            icon="icons/sample.gif"
            id="nl.cncr.synplot.e4.ui.plugin.editors.datasourceeditor"
            name="Datasource Editor">
      </editor>



In order to try to get DI working, I added a PartDescriptor for the DataSourceEditor class to the application model:
<descriptors xmi:id="_1AZb0A8AEeOi8vdVGCtkrw" 
	elementId="nl.cncr.synplot.e4.ui.plugin.partdescriptor.datasourceeditor" 
	label="Datasource Editor" 
	iconURI="platform:/plugin/nl.cncr.synplot.e4.ui.plugin/resources/projecticon.svg" 
	allowMultiple="true" category="org.eclipse.e4.primaryDataStack" 
	closeable="true" 
	dirtyable="true" 
	contributionURI="bundleclass://nl.cncr.synplot.e4.ui.plugin/nl.cncr.synplot.e4.ui.plugin.editors.DataSourceEditor"
/>


Still this does not rescue the DI. Could anyone provide me with hints on how to solve this? Should it work in the current approach or am I missing an important component?

Thnx, Pim
Re: Dependency Injection problem [message #1097103 is a reply to message #1095680] Thu, 29 August 2013 08:31 Go to previous message
Pim van Nierop is currently offline Pim van NieropFriend
Messages: 7
Registered: August 2013
Junior Member
Hi all, I found the solution. I had to use the e4 bridge mechanism to link the e3 plugin.xml definitions to the e4 DI mechanism. This is explained rather well in the Vogella tutorials (http://www.vogella.com/articles/Eclipse4MigrationGuide/article.html, section "Wrapping your Eclipse 4 components for Eclipse 3.x "). I just was not aware that this was relevant for my problem since I was not migrating anything.

For reference I report the classes setup that fixed DI problem. I installed the 3x bridge plugin from the e4 tools.

First I created an extension to the editors in the plugin.xml that points to a wrapper class.
      <editor
            class="nl.cncr.synplot.e4.ui.plugin.editors.DatasourceEditorWrapper"
            default="false"
            extensions="datasource_xml"
            icon="icons/sample.gif"
            id="nl.cncr.synplot.e4.ui.plugin.editors.datasourceeditorwrapper"
            name="Datasource Editor">
      </editor>


Then the DataSourceEditorWrapper class was created that extends the DIEditorPart class from the bridge plugin.
package nl.cncr.synplot.e4.ui.plugin.editors;

import org.eclipse.e4.tools.compat.parts.DIEditorPart;

public class DatasourceEditorWrapper extends DIEditorPart<DataSourceEditor> {

	public DatasourceEditorWrapper() {
		super(DataSourceEditor.class);
	}

}


Finally, the actual DataSourceEditor e4 editor was created.
package nl.cncr.synplot.e4.ui.plugin.editors;

import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;

import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IProgressMonitor;
import org.eclipse.e4.core.di.annotations.Optional;
import org.eclipse.e4.ui.di.Focus;
import org.eclipse.e4.ui.di.Persist;
import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.layout.FillLayout;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite;


public class CopyOfDataSourceEditor {
	
    public static final String ID = "nl.cncr.synplot.e4.ui.plugin.partdescriptor.datasourceeditor";
	
    @PostConstruct
    public void createPartControl(Composite parent) {
        parent.setLayout(new FillLayout(SWT.HORIZONTAL));
        // here controls are created
    }
	
    @Focus
    public void setFocus() {
    }
    
    @Persist
    void doSave(@Optional IProgressMonitor monitor) {
    }

}


Now, DI works for parts called from the plugin.xml.

Thnx, Pim


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