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JFace Data Binding/SSE

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Revision as of 18:07, 13 March 2009 by Azerr.redhat.com (Talk | contribs) (What is DOM-SSE?)

Target

Project Structured Source Editing (SSE) which is sub-project of WTP provides the capability to manage structured document (like DOM XML, CSS document..).

Target of JFace Data Binding/SSE is to support bindings with SSE nodes (DOM, CSS...). Today sources of this project are not available because we are discussing with Eclipse Team to see where we can put this project. This project can be used for instance when you wish manage XML content with an UI editor like :

  • PDE which manage plugin.xml with an UI (Extensions page).
  • JSF Web Tools which manage faces-config.xml with an UI.


Into JFace Data Binding/SSE sample you can find a Shapes Editor which manage XML content. Here you can see that SWT Text title UI is bounded with title attribute of diagram element :

ShapesDOMSSEEditor.png

JFace DOM-SSE Databinding

Before explaining features of JFace DOM-SSE Databinding, if you don't know DOM-SSE, I adwice you to read the section #What is DOM-SSE?

JFace DOM-SSE Databinding

This project provides the capability to manage binding with DOM-SSE nodes (IDOMNode). It is based on JFace DOM Databinding. Why having JFace DOM-SSE Databinding although JFace DOM Databinding manage DOM bindings.? The answer is :

  • DOM event listener problem.
  • Instance node problem.

What is DOM-SSE?

DOM-SSE is W3c DOM Document comming from IFile or TextEditor. XML Editor from WTP which is based on StructuredTextEditor manage internally DOM-SSE. The DOM-SSE is updated as soon as user type XML content. DOM-SSE is getted from WST IDOMModel like this :

IFile file = ... 
IModelManager manager = StructuredModelManager.getModelManager(); 
IDOMModel model = (IDOMModel)manager.getExistingModelForRead(file); 
if (model == null) { 
  model = manager.getModelForRead(file); 
} 

Document document = model.getDocument();

Each Nodes of DOM Document implements org.eclipse.wst.xml.core.internal.provisional.document.IDOMNode interface which extends :

  • W3C org.w3c.dom.Node.
  • org.eclipse.wst.sse.core.internal.provisional.INodeNotifier.

DOM-SSE can be observed by using :

  • IDOMModel#addModelStateListener(IModelStateListener listener) : as soon as DOM-SSE is updated (add/remove/update any Nodes), you can use IModelStateListener#modelChanged(IStructuredModel model) to detect that :
    IDOModel model = ...
    model.addModelStateListener(new IModelStateListener(){
      ...
      public void modelChanged(IStructuredModel model) {
    	
      }
    });
  • org.eclipse.wst.sse.core.internal.provisional.INodeNotifier provides the capability to add event listener and observe change of the node.
    IDOMElement element = ...
    element.addAdapter(new INodeAdapter() {
      public boolean isAdapterForType(Object type) {
        return true;
      }
      public void notifyChanged(INodeNotifier notifier, int eventType,
        Object changedFeature, Object oldValue, Object newValue, int pos) {
        
        // Element has changed (attribute changed, ...)
        // Do something
    				
      }
    });

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