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Hide a password attribute content [message #1779570]

Tue, 09 January 2018 11:41

Eclipse User

This topic is related to my previous forum thread in the EMF forum (here https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/1090987/).

I try to hide the content of the password attribute when the user writes it.
EMF does not allow custom Ecore and/or GenModel to integrate this kind of information.

I wish to know if Sirius allows to custom the Properties View Description (https://www.eclipse.org/sirius/doc/specifier/properties/Properties_View_Description.html#properties_view_description) in order to show password characters (* or •) instead of the written text.

best

Faiez

Re: Hide a password attribute content [message #1779605 is a reply to message #1779570]

Wed, 10 January 2018 04:01

Eclipse User

Hi,

You will have to contribute your own widget.
See https://www.eclipse.org/sirius/doc/specifier/properties/Properties_View_Description.html#basic_custom_widgets (more simple if the widget is not intended to be reused), or https://www.eclipse.org/sirius/doc/specifier/properties/Properties_View_Description.html#advanced_custom_widgets (which makes the widget easier to reuse).
Please let us know if the documentation is not enough, that will be an opportunity to improve it.
In addition, you will find an example of contribution in the Sirius Git repository (http://git.eclipse.org/c/sirius/org.eclipse.sirius.git/tree/plugins) see the 4 plugins containing *ext.widgets.reference*. And the contributions for the EEF part here : https://git.eclipse.org/c/eef/org.eclipse.eef.git/tree/plugins

Regards,

Florian

Re: Hide a password attribute content [message #1779693 is a reply to message #1779605]

Thu, 11 January 2018 04:24

Eclipse User

Thank you Florian,

As shown in the following Figure (the right part), I have a metamodel with two classes Provider and Account.
A provider owns a set of accounts and an account has a login and a password.

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The idea is how to hide the content of the password when the user writes it (as expected in the following Figure).

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So, according to the documentation (here https://wiki.eclipse.org/Sirius/Tutorials/PropertiesViewTutorial#Widget_Text), I create a properties view with a group containing two texts, loginText and PasswordText (the left part of the first Figure).

However, I didn't see how can I customize the shown content of the password.
Is it with a style? or with a customized style?

Any idea/suggestion?

Regards,

Faiez

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