RE: [mylar-dev] Persistence of Tasks between Eclipse Sessions

["Mik Kersten" <beatmik@xxxxxxx>]

Sorry for the slow reply Felix.  The intent is that persistence of all Task
List information is taken of for you.  However, the tasks that appear in the
Task List are proxies for the actual tasks.  So what's stored is their
description and other relevant attributes, but not their contents (e.g.
Bugzilla comments).  If you want to store any additional information you
need to create a subtype of DelegatingTaskExternalizer.  As a general rule,
look to the mylar.jira plug-in for an example of the current API usage, and
see how JiraTaskExternalizer does this. 

I'd like to apply your patch, and all patches for eclipse.org projects must
come from bug reports, so could you please create a report for that and
attach?

We pulled subtasks out of the UI ages ago, so I'm not surprised if
externalization for them is broken even though some unit tests remain.
Please file a bug report for this.  Also, there has been ongoing discussion
on subtask support in the task list, which I've summarized in the following
report.  It would be helpful if you could add your ideas or use cases there:

137543: [discussion] task list support for subtasks
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=137543

Mik

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Felix Schwarz
> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 7:14 AM
> To: mylar-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [mylar-dev] Persistence of Tasks between Eclipse Sessions
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a question regarding persistence of tasks between Eclipse
> sessions: After writing an implementation of a
> AbstractRepositoryConnector, implementing subclasses of
> AbstractRepositoryTask etc., I like to see my imported repository
> tasks re-appearing after an Eclipse restart.
> 
> I noticed that there is a TaskListManager [1] which has
> readExistingOrCreateNewList(). Unfortunately, subtasks, the repository
> kind and some other information is not saved in tasklist.xml. What is
> the recommended way dealing with these problems? Do I have to
> implement a special serialization interface?
> 
> There was another problem in TaskList [2] which was easy to fix though
> (patch attached).
> 
> [1] src/org/eclipse/mylar/provisional/tasklist/TaskListManager.java
> [2] src/org/eclipse/mylar/provisional/tasklist/TaskList.java
> 
> Felix