| API to access Task Categories / Queries? [message #749764] |
Tue, 25 October 2011 08:25  |
Eclipse User |
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Hi,
I have a Mylyn development question:
I have a requirement, which can be described as:
When <something> is done, present the user a dialog in which he can enter a comment.
For convenience, if a task is active in Mylyn, use the task summary as a default for the comment field.
If no task is active, still give the user the chance to select a task: present a list of known tasks, from which
he can select a task to fill the comment conveniently.
I have started to dig around, which information I can get from Mylyn.
I have managed to get the active task by calling TasksUi.getTaskActivityManager().getActiveTask() and I was able to subscribe to task activation events using the same class.
However, I haven't found any way to get all tasks from mylyn (well, Mylyn does not know about all the tasks in the repo, but I would at least want to know the tasks Mylyn knows about.
I thought, maybe there would be an API to query all ITaskContainers (or more specifically the TasksUiPlugin.getTaskList().getRootElements()), but all of the relevant methods I find are internal.
Is there any other way, I can fulfill the requirement mentioned above?
BTW, I started to dig around in the source code in order to find the API.
Is there a more "official" API documentation available somewhere?
Thanks in advance!
Cheers,
Stefan
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| Re: API to access Task Categories / Queries? [message #752551 is a reply to message #749764] |
Wed, 26 October 2011 08:36  |
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Hi Stefan,
it's usually best to ask development related questions on mylyn-integrators
(or mylyn-dev). Your observation, that there is no public API for the task
list at the moment, is correct.
Please vote for this bug and feel free to add your usecase if you are
interested in that enhancement:
239994: [api] provide access to task list
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=239994
For now you are best of using internals. We will announce on the bug in case
significant changes are made to the data model.
Steffen
Stefan Winkler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Mylyn development question:
> I have a requirement, which can be described as:
> When <something> is done, present the user a dialog in which he can enter
> a comment. For convenience, if a task is active in Mylyn, use the task
> summary as a default for the comment field. If no task is active, still
> give the user the chance to select a task: present a list of known tasks,
> from which he can select a task to fill the comment conveniently.
>
> I have started to dig around, which information I can get from Mylyn.
> I have managed to get the active task by calling
> TasksUi.getTaskActivityManager().getActiveTask() and I was able to
> subscribe to task activation events using the same class. However, I
> haven't found any way to get all tasks from mylyn (well, Mylyn does not
> know about all the tasks in the repo, but I would at least want to know
> the tasks Mylyn knows about. I thought, maybe there would be an API to
> query all ITaskContainers (or more specifically the
> TasksUiPlugin.getTaskList().getRootElements()), but all of the relevant
> methods I find are internal. Is there any other way, I can fulfill the
> requirement mentioned above?
>
> BTW, I started to dig around in the source code in order to find the API.
> Is there a more "official" API documentation available somewhere?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Cheers,
> Stefan
--
Steffen Pingel
Committer, http://eclipse.org/mylyn
Senior Developer, http://tasktop.com
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