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Declare an extension as optional? [message #59128]

Thu, 30 April 2009 22:31

Timothy Marc

Messages: 547
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hey all,

i have an UML profile (don't panic, it is no UML-specific questions),
which i want to reuse for several IDE's (Papyrus, RSM, etc.), but every
IDE has its own internal registration mechanism via an Extension Point.

Is it possible to declare in one plugin, several extension and set these
extensions to a kind of "optional"? The problem is, that if the required
plugin was not found in the environment, the whole plugin will not be
registered! But, i didn't want to duplicate the Profile/Resource/What
ever for every new IDE.

Thanks a lot
Timothy

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Re: Declare an extension as optional? [message #59203 is a reply to message #59128]

Fri, 01 May 2009 22:17

Felix Dorner

Messages: 676
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hey Timothy, > Is it possible to declare in one plugin, several
extension and set these
> extensions to a kind of "optional"? The problem is, that if the required
> plugin was not found in the environment, the whole plugin will not be
> registered!
Is it possible to programatically register an extension at runtime?

Felix

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Re: Declare an extension as optional? [message #59228 is a reply to message #59203]

Sat, 02 May 2009 09:57

Timothy Marc

Messages: 547
Registered: July 2009

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Felix,

what do you want to say with this fragment? Was this an additional
question or an answer? :)

Timothy

Felix Dorner schrieb:
> Hey Timothy, > Is it possible to declare in one plugin, several
> extension and set these
>> extensions to a kind of "optional"? The problem is, that if the
>> required plugin was not found in the environment, the whole plugin
>> will not be registered!
> Is it possible to programatically register an extension at runtime?
>
> Felix
>
>

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Re: Declare an extension as optional? [message #59278 is a reply to message #59228]

Sat, 02 May 2009 13:32

Felix Dorner

Messages: 676
Registered: July 2009

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> what do you want to say with this fragment? Was this an additional
> question or an answer? :)

Hey Timothy. Sorry. I wanted to say: If it is possible to
programatically register an extension at runtime, then you could do:

if (plugin1 is present){
register extension for plugin1
}

Now we just need someone who can answer my question. Then yours would be
answered too :-)

Felix

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