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IViewSite (ico multi-instance view): no means to update secondaryId [message #533886]

Mon, 17 May 2010 11:44

Guy Rooms

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Hello,

I have a situation/question concerning multi-instance views:

Situation:

- (single) view_A: showing list of available devices
- (multiple) view_B: displaying details for a single device

Requested Scenarios:

- Scenario A:
"Via context menu on View_A, provide means to Create (and jump to) new
instance of view_B."
This works fine using the secondaryId, e.g.:
"activePage.showView(<view_B_Id>, <secondaryId>, IWorkbenchPage.VIEW_CREATE);"
Here, the <secondaryId> corresponds to a device, and is used during
view_Bs creation (using "IViewSite.getSecondaryID()")

- Scenario B:
"Additionaly have a dropdown list in View_Bs toolbar to be able to
switch to another device."
Also this works fine: I can add a dropdown list, I can update view_B
its contents according to the newly selected device.
however the (internal) secondaryId (corresponding to the originally
selected device) remains the same.
As a result, a discrepancy is created between view_Bs content (details
on newly selected device) and its internal secondaryId (originally
selected device).

As a result, this breaks the expected behavior of Scenario A.

A solution to this problem could be to provide a means to extend the
IViewSite interface with a method to update the secondaryID.

Questions:
- Is it an option to have IViewSite extended with:
".setSecondaryId(String secId))",
- Is there another, existing solution I don't know about, fulfilling
both requested scenario's
- Any other, better solution ?

Thank you for your replies.

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Re: IViewSite (ico multi-instance view): no means to update secondaryId [message #533888 is a reply to message #533886]

Mon, 17 May 2010 11:59

Guy Rooms

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Registered: May 2010

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It Seems I have posted this to the wrong forum, should have been the "eclipse platform" iso RCP.
Can I (..) move this to the correct forum ? Sorry for the trouble.

Guy (first time poster)

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Re: IViewSite (ico multi-instance view): no means to update secondaryId [message #533910 is a reply to message #533886]

Mon, 17 May 2010 13:04

Paul Webster

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Registered: July 2009
Location: Ottawa

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This post is probably OK here as well. I'll just append my answer:

But I'll mention, we cannot add that enhancements (definitely not in
3.x, possibly not in 4.0 either). The primaryID+secondaryID are
immutable and point to an instance of the view in the framework
(scoped to a window, I believe).

Your best bet is to have your primaryID+secondaryID be a key into a
map of devices ... then you can swap out your model object and have
that view "key" point to the new device.

Later,
PW

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Re: IViewSite (ico multi-instance view): no means to update secondaryId [message #533964 is a reply to message #533910]

Mon, 17 May 2010 15:06

Guy Rooms

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Thx for your reply.

>Your best bet is to have your primaryID+secondaryID be a key into a
>map of devices ... then you can swap out your model object and have
>that view "key" point to the new device.
If I understand well, this implies:
- not to use the "normal" mechanism for navigating from view_A to view_B:
activePage.showView(<view_B>, <secId>, IWorkbenchPage.VIEW_CREATE);
- instead use an object in between which
[a] keeps track of the deviceSelection done at (every instance of) view_B
[b] is used by view_A for creating/navigating to the correct instance of view_B.
Is this correct ?

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Re: IViewSite (ico multi-instance view): no means to update secondaryId [message #533996 is a reply to message #533964]

Mon, 17 May 2010 16:19

Paul Webster

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Guy Rooms wrote:
> If I understand well, this implies:
> - not to use the "normal" mechanism for navigating from view_A to
> view_B: activePage.showView(<view_B>, <secId>, IWorkbenchPage.VIEW_CREATE);
> - instead use an object in between which [a] keeps track of the
> deviceSelection done at (every instance of) view_B
> [b] is used by view_A for creating/navigating to the correct instance
> of view_B.

That would be one way ... creating your own DeviceViewManager.
dvm.openView(Device) -> shows the view you want and works out the
primaryId+secondaryID -> Device mapping

dvm.getDevice(IViewPart) reverses the logic. Or something less
complicated, or something more complicated, depending one what your main
usecases are.

PW

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