orion.edit.outliner

An orion.edit.outliner service provides an overview of a file being edited. The overview is given as a tree, which the Orion UI renders in the left-hand pane alongside the file you are editing. Items in the tree can be links that take you to the appropriate position in the file, or to another URL entirely.

Service methods

A provider implements the computeOutline method, whose signature is as follows:

computeOutline(editorContext, options)
editorContext ObjectReference The Editor Context object.
options Object
options.contentType String The Content Type ID of the file being edited.

The return value (or fulfillment value) is an Array of top-level OutlineElement objects, which will be displayed in the outline pane.

The OutlineElement object

Each OutlineElement has these properties:

label String Text to be shown in the UI for this element.
className String Optional A space-separated list of CSS class names to be applied to this element in the UI.
labelPre String Optional Text to be shown in the UI, prior to the label text.
classNamePre String Optional A space-separated list of CSS class names to be applied to the labelPre element. Can be used to add an image before the label text.
labelPost String Optional Text to be shown in the UI, after the label text.
classNamePost String Optional A space-separated list of CSS class names to be applied to the labelPost element.
children OutlineElement[] Optional Array of child OutlineElements of this element. Children may be nested to an arbitrary depth.
line Number Optional The line number within the file to use as the link for this element in the UI. Line numbers begin counting from 1.
The optional properties column, start, end, text may be provided for finer-grained control. (Consult the orion.util.hashFromPosition() documentation in the Client API reference for details about these parameters.)
href String Optional When line is omitted, the href property provides a URL to use as the link.

Service attributes

Implementations of orion.edit.outliner must define the following attributes:

contentType
String[] An array of Content Type IDs giving the types of files that this outliner can provide an outline for.
id
String A unique identifier for this outline provider.
name
String A user-readable name for this outline provider. If a nameKey is provided, name is optional.
nls
String Optional. Path to an NLS bundle that the Orion NLS framework will load to obtain translated strings for this provider.
nameKey
String Optional. The NLS key used to look up the translated name of this provider in the message bundle given by the nls field.

Examples

This example shows an outline provider that runs on .txt files. It finds Mediawiki-style =Section Headings= and generates a flat outline from them. (A more elaborate implementation might also find subsections and include them as children of the top-level sections.)

 var provider = new eclipse.PluginProvider();
 provider.registerServiceProvider("orion.edit.outliner", {
   getOutline: function(contents, title) {
     var outline = [];
     var lines = contents.split(/\r?\n/);
     for (var i=0; i < lines.length; i++) {
       var line = lines[i];
       var match = /^=\s*(.+?)\s*=$/.exec(line);
       if (match) {
         outline.push({
            label: match[1],
            line: i+1  // lines are numbered from 1
         });
       }
     }
     return outline;
   }
 }, {
   contentType: ["text/plain"],
   name: "Headings",
   id: "orion.outliner.example.headings"
 });
 provider.connect();