Contains the team synchronization presentation framework and support for the Synchronize View.

Package Specification

Contains the team synchronization presentation framework and support for the Synchronize View. A synchronization framework is a unified architecture for presenting and manipulating resource synchronization state. Consider the synchronization model described by the classes in org.eclipse.team.core.synchronize as the physical representation of synchronization state then the classes in this package allow you to control how the model is presented to the user. This framework doesn't attempt to provide common operations for manipulating synchronization state. Instead it is left up to the framework user to add their own domain specific operations to the presentation.

The primary advantages of this synchronization presentation framework are that it:

The synchronization presentation framework consists of:


Synchronize View Interfaces

These interfaces and classes support a generic Synchronize View that can show multiple synchronize participants. The basic model for integrating into the Synchronize View consists of:

Synchronize participants are declared by extending the synchronizeParticipants extension point. There are two classes of synchronize participants: static participants will be created when the synchronize view is created, and dynamic participants that are created by user code at some other time. A synchronize manager manages all active synchronize participants, and provides notification of participants which are added and removed. Participants are displayed in a page book view. Each participant implementation is reponsible for creating its page, which provides freedom of presentation to the synchronize view implementation. A single participant may be displayed simultaneously in multiple synchronize views, and in different workbench windows.


Viewer Advisors

- StructuredViewerAdvisor: are used to display the logical structure to the user and define the basics such as the SynchronizeModelProvider, label provider, and context menus.

- SyncInfoCompareInput: is used to show a comparison between a local resource and a variant in a compare editor.
- SyncInfoSetCompareInput: is used to showing a set of variants in a compare editor

Default implementations are provided and there are many levels of customizations available.


Compare Inputs

These are helpers for allowing users to display and edit resources being synchronized by integrating with the compare support available in Eclipse.

Synchronize action and operation utilities

These are helpers for writing actions that are performed on elements shown in synchronize viewers.

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