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Revision as of 15:23, 14 March 2014

Overview of plugging into Orion pages

An important part of plugging into Orion pages is supplying links that connect the user to other pages inside and outside of Orion. Page-level linking services allow plugins and page authors to contribute links and other forms of connectivity between an Orion page and other web pages. The most general of these services can be used on any Orion page.

When specifying links to other pages, a service may need to use some information about the page to decide whether a link is applicable and how the link is composed. This is accomplished for many services by using the validationProperties, uriTemplate, and contentType properties in the service definition.

Validation Properties

Validation properties describe the properties of a page object that should be analyzed to determine whether a particular service applies to the object. They can optionally store information from page objects into variables that can be referenced in a URI template. Contributing services generally specify one or more of these properties in an array.

The ValidationProperty Object

A ValidationProperty has the following properties:

source
String The name of a property to look for in the target object. The ":" character represents nested properties, and the "|" character represents OR'ed properties. The "[n]" operator may appear after a property name to treat the property as an array. The value of the property selected by source flows to the match and variableName expressions (if specified).

For example:

The source Location specifies that the page object must have a "Location" property, such as myObject.Location.
The source Git:ContentLocation specifies that the page object must have a sub-object and property such as myObject.Git.ContentLocation.
The source ChildrenLocation|ContentLocation means that the page object must have either a property such as myObject.ChildrenLocation or a property such as myObject.ContentLocation. The first property found will be used.
Elements of an array can be referred to by ":n" or "[n]". For example, the source Children[0] specifies that the page object must have a "Children" property with at least one element in it.
A negative array index "[-n]" refers to the element at index length - n. For example, Children[-1] refers to the last element of the Children array.
match
String|Object Optional. An expression that the property selected by source will have its value validated against. If the value matches the match, then this validation property is considered to match the target object.

If match is an object, a simple strict equality comparison is performed against the source value. If match is a string, it gives a regular expression pattern that will be passed to the RegExp constructor, and executed against the source value.

variableName
String Optional. The name of a variable that the value of the source property will be bound to. If provided, then an associated URI template may reference a variable of this name, and it will be substituted with the value of the matched source property.
variableMatchPosition
String Optional. A string that specifies what part of a matching string is used in the variable value when a regular expression was used to match the property.
"all" (default) means the entire property value should be substituted for the variable.
"only" means only the matching part of the property value should be substituted in the URI template.
"before" means the part before the match is substituted in the URI template.
"after" means the part after the match is substituted in the URI template.
replacements
ReplacePattern[] Optional. Specifies an array of replacements that can be used to further modify a variable value used in a URI template. Each ReplacePattern element has the following properties:
  • pattern String RegExp string giving the pattern to match.
  • replacement String The string that replaces a match. JavaScript's special replacement patterns can be used here.

Example 1: targeting a property

Consider a model object like a File returned by the Orion file API. A file located at the path /MyProject/src/README.md within an Orion workspace might be represented by an object like this:

{
  Name: "README.md",
  Parents: [
    {
      ChildrenLocation: "/file/username/MyProject/src/?depth=1",
      Location: "/file/username/MyProject/src/",
      Name: "src"
    },
    {
      ChildrenLocation: "/file/username/MyProject/?depth=1",
      Location: "/file/username/MyProject/",
      Name: "MyProject"
    }
  ]
}

We can write a Validation Property that matches a File-like object by checking for the presence of the Parents property in our source:

validationProperties: [{
    source: "Parents"
}]

Example 2: sub-properties

But suppose we want to match only files (and folders) that are not at the top level? Building on the previous example, we match only objects whose Parents property has a child property named 0; effectively selecting only files with 1 or more parents. (A top-level folder has an empty Parents array, which has no "0" property, and hence will not match Parents:0.)

validationProperties: [{
    source: "Parents:0"  // or equivalently "Parents[0]"
}]

Example 3: variables

Now suppose we want to generate a link to a web search for the parent folder's name. Again using the ":" child property selector, we target the Name field of the parent folder. Using the variableName, we assign the matched value to a URI variable named ParentFolder. Finally, our URI template references that variable. At display time, when the URI template is expanded, the parent folder's name will be encoded into the search query.

validationProperties: [{
    source: "Parents:0:Name",  // or equivalently "Parents[0]:Name"
    variableName: "ParentFolder"
}],
uriTemplate: "http://www.example.org/search?q={ParentFolder}"

Example 4: array indices

Modifying the problem in Example 3, suppose we want to generate a web search for the name of the topmost containing folder of a given item. Here our source expression uses Parents[-1] to select the last element in the Parents array (which is the top-level folder, as Parents are ordered from lowest to highest). Top-level folders themselves always have Parents.length === 0, and will not be matched by this source expression.

validationProperties: [{
    source: "Parents[-1]:Name",
    variableName: "TopFolder"
}],
uriTemplate: "http://www.example.org/search?q={TopFolder}"

URI Templates

A URI template describes a hyperlink to another page. In Orion, URI templates are the format plugins use to provide links that the Orion UI can render. URI templates are preferred over simple strings because they correctly handle certain error-prone encoding rules of URLs, and they can contain variables, which offer an easy method to parameterize the URL.

The variables can refer to page object metadata that a command is being evaluated against, or to a variableName provided in the validation properties, or to certain system-wide variables defined in Orion. Variables are referenced by enclosing the variable name in curly brackets {VariableName} in the template expression. At display time, the Orion UI expands a URI template by substituting values in for its parameters.

The following variables are system-wide variables offered by Orion, independent of the page object or variable names in the validation properties:

OrionHome
Specifies the hostname for the Orion server instance. This variable can be used by a plugin that is installed in another domain to reference a page location in Orion.

The URI Template syntax is specified by RFC 6570.

Example

Here's an example of a URI template:

{+OrionHome}/content/content.html#{+Location}

This template links to a particular page (content.html) in the running Orion instance, and puts the value of the Location property in the originating page's object metadata after the hash. By default, parameter values are percent-encoded when the template is expanded. Prefixing the variable name with + in the template turns off percent-encoding. (This is required for any variables that we expect to contain raw URL characters like '/', which would otherwise be encoded to %2F by the template engine.)

Content Types

Content types may be used to further validate file-based metadata. For example, if a page link should only be visible when the page is showing HTML or CSS, a content type of ["text/html", "text/css"] can be used to express this.

orion.page.content

Plugins can contribute page content for a page that is framed by the common Orion banner and equipped with standard Orion page services, such as the related pages menu. The page content itself is rendered in an iframe inside the page. Pages contributed in this way are opened in a URL that specifies the id of the extension.

Service methods

None. This service is purely declarative.

Service attributes

Implementations of orion.page.content must define the following attributes:

name
The name of the content, which is shown as the page title in the Orion banner.
id
A symbolic id for referencing this extension point.
uriTemplate
a URI Template that defines the href for the iframe content. When content is opened, it might be targeted against a particular file or folder. In this case, the template variables can refer to file or folder metadata from the target file. In addition to the standard variables used in Orion and the file/folder metadata, some special variables are used:
SaveURL refers to a URL that can be used to save content back to Orion.
ExitURL refers to a URL that can be used if the user chooses to exit the embedded application.
saveToken
Optional. An Array of objects describing token(s) that appear in the URL of the page that saves the content. The saveToken is used to find the location of any content stored by the plugin.

Examples

The following snippet defines an orion.page.content extension for showing the Pixlr image editor inside Orion.

   provider.registerServiceProvider("orion.page.content", {}, {
      id: "orion.pixlr.content",
      name: "Pixlr",
      saveToken: [{token: "imgapi?image=", terminator: "&"},
      uriTemplate: "http://pixlr.com/editor/?image={+OrionHome}{+Location}&referrer=Orion&title={Name}&locktype=true&exit={+ExitURL}&target={+SaveURL}imgapi&locktitle=true,contentProvider=orion.pixlr.content"});

The URL to open this page is /content/content.html#{+Location},contentProvider=orion.pixlr.content

If the page content requires a resource location (for example, it is an editor), then typically the page would be linked using the orion editor extension point. This ensures that the page were opened with a specified location parameter in the URL. The pixlr plugin contributes an editor in this way.

   provider.registerServiceProvider("orion.edit.editor", {}, {
      id: "orion.pixlr",
      name: "Pixlr Image Editor",
      uriTemplate: "{+OrionHome}/content/content.html#{+Location},contentProvider=orion.pixlr.content"});

The corresponding "open with" extension point is

   provider.registerServiceProvider("orion.navigate.openWith", {}, {
      editor: "orion.pixlr",
      contentType: ["image/gif", "image/jpeg", "image/ico", "image/png","image/tiff"]});


orion.page.link

The link service provides a mechanism for plugins to add links that should appear in the main header of Orion pages. Clients supply the link name and URL. The header code will look for implementers of this service when generating page headers for Orion.

Service methods

None. This service is purely declarative.

Service attributes

Implementations of orion.page.link must define the following attributes:

name
A human readable link name, typically used as an HTML anchor element body, or in a tooltip.
id
A symbolic id for referencing this link.
uriTemplate
A URI Template that defines the link. This template may use the standard Orion URI template variables.

Examples

The following snippet defines the some of the main links that are shown in a default Orion installation.

   var serviceImpl = {};//no service methods required
   provider.registerServiceProvider("orion.page.link", serviceImpl, {
      name: "Navigator",
      id: "orion.navigator",
      uriTemplate: "{OrionHome}/navigate/table.html#"
   });
   provider.registerServiceProvider("orion.page.link", serviceImpl, {
      name: "Sites",
      id: "orion.sites",
      uriTemplate: "{OrionHome}/sites/sites.html"
   });
   provider.registerServiceProvider("orion.page.link", serviceImpl, {
      name: "Repositories",
      id: "orion.repositories",
      uriTemplate: "{OrionHome}/git/git-repository.html#"
   });

orion.page.link.category

The category service allows page links and related links to be categorized. Each category appears as an icon in Orion's navigation menu. When the user activates the category, the links within the category are shown.

As of Orion 5.0, the default installation defines the following categories: "edit", "git", "search", "shell", "sites". Plugins may contribute to the default categories, or define additional categories.

Introduced in

Orion 5.0

Service methods

None. This service is purely declarative.

Service attributes

An implementation must provide the following attributes:

id
String. A symbolic id for referencing this category.
imageClass
String. A CSS class name that provides an image for this category.
name
String. The human readable name for this category. If a nameKey is provided, name is optional.
nameKey
String. The key used to look up the translated, human readable name of this category within the message bundle. If a name is provided, nameKey is optional.
nls
String. Gives the message bundle path to be used for translating this category's name. If a nameKey is provided, nls must be provided.
order
Number, optional. The sort order of this category relative to other categories. If order is not provided, the category appears after all ordered categories. The ordering of multiple categories with no order property is indeterminate.

Examples

The following snippet defines 2 of the categories that appear in a default Orion installation: "edit" and "shell".

   provider.registerServiceProvider("orion.page.link", null, {
      id: "edit",
      nameKey: "Editor",
      nls: "orion/nls/messages",
      imageClass: "core-sprite-edit",
      order: 10
   });
   provider.registerService("orion.page.link.category", null, {
      id: "git",
      nameKey: "Git",
      nls: "git/nls/gitmessages",
      imageClass: "core-sprite-repository",
      order: 20
   });

orion.page.link.related

The related link service provides a mechanism for plugins to contribute links to the "Related pages" menu in the Orion page header. Clients can specify when the link is applicable using validationProperties and contentType.

Service methods

None. This service is purely declarative.

Service attributes

Implementations of orion.page.link.related must define the following attributes:

id
A symbolic id for referencing this link.
name
A human readable link name, used in the "Related pages" menu.
tooltip
A tooltip used to describe the link.
uriTemplate
A URI Template that defines the link. This template may use page object metadata, declared variable names, or standard Orion URI template variables.
contentType
Optional. An array of Content Type IDs for which this link is applicable.
validationProperties
Optional. An array of Validation Properties describing whether the link is applicable, and optionally declaring variables to be used in the URI template.

Examples

The following related page link will determine if the current page's target has a GitUrl that conforms to the URL of git repositories hosted at github.com. If so, then parts of the URL are assigned to variables that are used to build the associated github URL.

 provider.registerServiceProvider("orion.page.link.related", null, {
    id: "orion.git.gotoGithub",
    name: "Show in GitHub",
    tooltip: "Show this repository at GitHub",
    validationProperties: [{
       source: "GitUrl",
       match: "github\.com.*\.git",
       variableName: "GitHubLocation",
       variableMatchPosition: "only",
       replacements: [{pattern: ":", replacement: "/"}, {pattern: ".git$", replacement: ""}]
    }],
    uriTemplate: "https://{GitHubLocation}"
 });

If the service extension does not describe a name, tooltip, and uriTemplate, the implementation will look for a command extension of the same id. In this way, commands added to the navigator that link to other pages may be considered for the Related pages menu.

orion.core.linkScanner

Link scanners are declarative services that specify patterns of text to replace with link anchors. Scanners contribute a regular expression pattern to match in the source text. They then provide a link to be inserted for each match. These scanners are used by the text link service to convert text into a DOM node with appropriate anchor and text nodes as children.

Service methods

None.

Service attributes

Implementations of orion.core.linkScanner must define the following attributes:

pattern
A regular expression string to locate links in the source text
words
A Number identifying the number of white-space delimited words in each match
anchor
A template of the URL for each match. The template may contain variables of the form %1, %2, etc, which are substituted by each of the words in the match.

Examples

The following scanner will replace text of the form "bug 123456" with links of the form "https://bugs.eclipse.org/123456

 var provider = new eclipse.PluginProvider();
 var serviceImpl = {};
 var serviceProperties = {
   pattern: "bug\\s\\d{4,7}",
   words: 2,
   anchor: "https://bugs.eclipse.org/%2"
 };
 provider.registerServiceProvider("orion.core.linkScanner", serviceImpl, serviceProperties);
 provider.connect();

This scanner will replace email addresses with mailto: URLs:

 var provider = new eclipse.PluginProvider();
 var serviceImpl = {};
 var serviceProperties = {
   pattern: "\\b[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\\.[A-Z]{2,4}\\b",
   words: 1,
   anchor: "mailto:%1"
 };
 provider.registerServiceProvider("orion.core.linkScanner", serviceImpl, serviceProperties);
 provider.connect();

orion.core.content

The orion.core.content service is used to define files that can be imported into a user's project folder. The service describes a contentURITemplate that can be imported into a folder. If the content is a zip file, it can be unzipped into the folder. If the content is to be generated by simply linking to another page, a uriTemplate can be used to specify the link instead of a contentURITemplate.

The user interface for this feature is not specified. The ability to generate content into a project may appear in multiple places.

Service methods

None. This service is purely declarative.

Service attributes

Implementations of orion.core.content may define the following attributes:

name
The user visible name of the content
id
The extension point id.
description
The user visible description which explains what the content contains.
uriTemplate
Optional. A URI Template that defines a link to another page that can generate the content. If this property is specified, then the contentURIProperty property will be ignored.
contentURITemplate
Optional. A URI Template that defines a link to content that should be imported into a project.

Example

Here is a sample plug-in that defines a content zip file that is colocated with the Orion plugin.

var provider = new orion.PluginProvider();
var temp = document.createElement('a');
temp.href = "testContent.zip";

provider.registerService("orion.core.content", null, {
        id: "orion.content.test",
        name: "Another Exemplary Sample Site",
        description: "Generate a sample site from Susan's test plugin.",
        contentURITemplate: temp.href
});
provider.connect();

When this plug-in is installed, the user will be offered "Another Exemplary Sample Site" as possible content for a project.

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