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Opening new Part - getting current EPartService from static method [message #1797696]

Mon, 05 November 2018 06:28

Eclipse User

I decided to rewrite my app to pure e4 from 3.x where I had static RCPHelper with method:

public static ViewPart openNew(String pViewId, String pNewId)
{
		try {
			return PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getActivePage().showView(pViewId, pViewId+pNewId, org.eclipse.ui.IWorkbenchPage.VIEW_ACTIVATE);
		} catch (PartInitException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		return null;
}

I tried with static BundleContext but EPartService is always NULL:

EPartService lService = (EPartService)Activator.context.getServiceReference(EPartService.class);
		MPart lPart = lService.showPart(pViewId, PartState.ACTIVATE);

Is it possible to implement something like that in e4 that would return MPart?

Re: Opening new Part - getting current EPartService from static method [message #1797707 is a reply to message #1797696]

Mon, 05 November 2018 08:39

Eclipse User

The Part Service is a window-level E4 service, not an OSGi service. E4 Services are scoped or bound tied to different points in the windowing hierarchy. The E4 services are resolved using an Eclipse Context, and the root context actually does do OSGi Service lookups too.

So you need to find your current window and do something like:

Window window = ...;
if(window.getContext() == null) {
   // if window has not been realized
}
EPartService partService = window.getContext().get(EPartService.class);

Re: Opening new Part - getting current EPartService from static method [message #1797871 is a reply to message #1797707]

Wed, 07 November 2018 12:08

Eclipse User

I have only one window, tried with something like this:

MApplication lApplication = E4Workbench.getServiceContext().get(MApplication.class);
MTrimmedWindow lWindow = (MTrimmedWindow) lApplication.getChildren().get(0);
if(lWindow.getContext() == null)
        System.err.println("NULL");

without success as getContext() returns always NULL

[Updated on: Wed, 07 November 2018 12:35] by Moderator

Re: Opening new Part - getting current EPartService from static method [message #1797872 is a reply to message #1797871]

Wed, 07 November 2018 13:44

Eclipse User

That usually means the window hasn't actually been rendered yet (isn't visible).

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