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An adapter which performs action filtering.
Within the workbench a plugin may extend the actions which appear in the
context menu for any object. The visibility of each action extension is controlled
by action filtering. By default, the workbench will filter each action extension using
the objectClass
and optional nameFilter
attributes defined
in xml. If the action extension passes this test the action will be added to the
context menu for the object.
In some situations the object class and name are not enough to describe the intended
target action. In those situations an action extension may define one or more
filter
sub-elements. Each one of these elements describes one attribute of
the action target using a name value
pair. The attributes for an object
are type specific and beyond the domain of the workbench itself, so the workbench
will delegate filtering at this level to an IActionFilter
. This is a
filtering strategy which is provided by the selection itself and may perform type
specific filtering.
The workbench will retrieve the filter from the selected object by testing to see
if it implements IActionFilter
. If that fails, the workbench will ask for
a filter through through the IAdaptable
mechanism. If a filter is
found the workbench will pass each name value pair to the filter to determine if it
matches the state of the selected object. If so, or there is no filter, the action
will be added to the context menu for the object.
The attribute names for IResource, IMarker and IProject
are defined
in IResourceActionFilter, IMarkerActionFilter, and IProjectActionFilter
.
IAdaptable
,
IResourceActionFilter
,
IMarkerActionFilter
,
IProjectActionFilter
Method Summary | |
boolean |
testAttribute(Object target,
String name,
String value)
Returns whether the specific attribute matches the state of the target object. |
Method Detail |
public boolean testAttribute(Object target, String name, String value)
target
- the target objectname
- the attribute namevalue
- the attriute value
true
if the attribute matches; false
otherwise
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