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How to write a command that provisions a file into the user's directory? [message #968813]

Fri, 02 November 2012 19:29

Rafael Chaves

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Registered: July 2009

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I would like my plugin to contribute a navigator command that will add a file to the selected directory. Is that currently possible (from a plugin)?

Concrete case: in Cloudfier, a project has a related database. I want to allow the user to capture the current database's state as a JSON file in their project directory.

My workaround for now requires the user to create an empty file, open it in the text editor, and trigger a editor command that will insert the database contents into the text editor buffer, which the user can then save.

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Re: How to write a command that provisions a file into the user's directory? [message #968854 is a reply to message #968813]

Fri, 02 November 2012 20:17

Rafael Chaves

Messages: 161
Registered: July 2009

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The orion.navigate.content service feels a bit like what I need:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Orion/Documentation/Developer_Guide/Plugging_into_the_navigator#orion.navigate.content

However, it is meant to "create new top level folders with autogenerated content" (like the "Clone git Repository" and "SFTP Import" commands), and all I want is to create a new file (on the selected directory), and need a way of streaming the contents of the file so Orion can actually create the file (or a handle to the flie client API).

[Updated on: Fri, 02 November 2012 20:19]

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