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Looking for a way to reference the product and plugin information from a common callback method [message #642493]

Wed, 01 December 2010 15:17

drew frantz

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Typically we have placed the plugin product strings in the plugin.properties
file. The new project has a common mechanism that stuffs this info in a
separate callable class, is there a way for plugin.xml to call out to a java
method instead of read it from the plugin.properties.

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Re: Looking for a way to reference the product and plugin information from a common callback method [message #642543 is a reply to message #642493]

Wed, 01 December 2010 17:56

Paul Webster

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drew wrote:
> Typically we have placed the plugin product strings in the
> plugin.properties file. The new project has a common mechanism that
> stuffs this info in a separate callable class, is there a way for
> plugin.xml to call out to a java method instead of read it from the
> plugin.properties.

No, OSGi uses Bundle-Localization to load a ResourceBundle. That's
where it has to come from.

Eclipse plugins can use the NLS classes, but not MANIFEST.MF or plugin.xml

PW

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Re: Looking for a way to reference the product and plugin information from a common callback method [message #642644 is a reply to message #642543]

Thu, 02 December 2010 07:19

Thomas Schindl

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Am 01.12.10 18:57, schrieb Paul Webster:
> drew wrote:
>> Typically we have placed the plugin product strings in the
>> plugin.properties file. The new project has a common mechanism that
>> stuffs this info in a separate callable class, is there a way for
>> plugin.xml to call out to a java method instead of read it from the
>> plugin.properties.
>
> No, OSGi uses Bundle-Localization to load a ResourceBundle. That's
> where it has to come from.
>
> Eclipse plugins can use the NLS classes, but not MANIFEST.MF or plugin.xml
>
> PW
>
>

I've been looking this translation system into this lately because of
the translation story in Eclipse 4.0 and the lookup of those
translations is handled by an OSGi-Service named BundleLocalization.

If the extension registry is a good citizen of OSGi and uses this
service you can at least in theory install a BundleLocalization-Service
ranked higher than the default one but this would mean that you need to
do what the orginal service does and only handle your special use case.

Tom

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