bundles/org.eclipse.ui.workbench/Eclipse UI/org/eclipse/ui/internal/registry/RegistryReader.java

package org.eclipse.ui.internal.registry;

/*
 * (c) Copyright IBM Corp. 2000, 2001.
 * All Rights Reserved.
 */
import org.eclipse.core.runtime.*;
import org.eclipse.ui.internal.*;
import org.eclipse.ui.internal.misc.Sorter;

/**
 *	Template implementation of a registry reader that creates objects
 *	representing registry contents. Typically, an extension
 * contains one element, but this reader handles multiple
 * elements per extension.
 *
 * To start reading the extensions from the registry for an
 * extension point, call the method <code>readRegistry</code>.
 *
 * To read children of an IConfigurationElement, call the
 * method <code>readElementChildren</code> from your implementation
 * of the method <code>readElement</code>, as it will not be
 * done by default.
 */
public abstract class RegistryReader {
	protected static final String TAG_DESCRIPTION = "description";	//$NON-NLS-1$
/**
 * The constructor.
 */
protected RegistryReader() {
}
/**
 * This method extracts description as a subelement of
 * the given element.
 * @return description string if defined, or empty string
 * if not.
 */
protected String getDescription(IConfigurationElement config) {
	IConfigurationElement [] children = config.getChildren(TAG_DESCRIPTION);
	if (children.length>=1) {
		return children[0].getValue();
	}
	return "";//$NON-NLS-1$
}
/**
 * Logs the error in the workbench log using the provided
 * text and the information in the configuration element.
 */
protected void logError(IConfigurationElement element, String text) {
	IExtension extension = element.getDeclaringExtension();
	IPluginDescriptor descriptor = extension.getDeclaringPluginDescriptor();
	StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
	buf.append("Plugin " + descriptor.getUniqueIdentifier() + ", extension " + extension.getExtensionPointUniqueIdentifier());//$NON-NLS-2$//$NON-NLS-1$
	buf.append("\n"+text);//$NON-NLS-1$
	WorkbenchPlugin.log(buf.toString());
}
/**
 * Logs a very common registry error when a required attribute is missing.
 */
protected void logMissingAttribute(IConfigurationElement element, String attributeName) {
	logError(element, "Required attribute '"+attributeName+"' not defined");//$NON-NLS-2$//$NON-NLS-1$
}

/**
 * Logs a very common registry error when a required child is missing.
 */
protected void logMissingElement(IConfigurationElement element, String elementName) {
	logError(element, "Required sub element '"+elementName+"' not defined");//$NON-NLS-2$//$NON-NLS-1$
}

/**
 * Logs a registry error when the configuration element is unknown.
 */
protected void logUnknownElement(IConfigurationElement element) {
	logError(element, "Unknown extension tag found: " + element.getName());//$NON-NLS-1$
}
/**
 *	Apply a reproducable order to the list of extensions
 * provided, such that the order will not change as
 * extensions are added or removed.
 */
protected IExtension[] orderExtensions(IExtension[] extensions) {
	// By default, the order is based on plugin id sorted
	// in ascending order. The order for a plugin providing
	// more than one extension for an extension point is
	// dependent in the order listed in the XML file.
	Sorter sorter = new Sorter() {
		public boolean compare(Object extension1, Object extension2) {
			String s1 = ((IExtension)extension1).getDeclaringPluginDescriptor().getUniqueIdentifier().toUpperCase();
			String s2 = ((IExtension)extension2).getDeclaringPluginDescriptor().getUniqueIdentifier().toUpperCase();
			//Return true if elementTwo is 'greater than' elementOne
			return s2.compareTo(s1) > 0;
		}
	};

	Object[] sorted = sorter.sort(extensions);
	IExtension[] sortedExtension = new IExtension[sorted.length];
	System.arraycopy(sorted, 0, sortedExtension, 0, sorted.length);
	return sortedExtension;
}
/**
 * Implement this method to read element's attributes.
 * If children should also be read, then implementor
 * is responsible for calling <code>readElementChildren</code>.
 * Implementor is also responsible for logging missing 
 * attributes.
 *
 * @return true if element was recognized, false if not.
 */
protected abstract boolean readElement(IConfigurationElement element);
/**
 * Read the element's children. This is called by
 * the subclass' readElement method when it wants
 * to read the children of the element.
 */
protected void readElementChildren(IConfigurationElement element) {
	readElements(element.getChildren());
}
/**
 * Read each element one at a time by calling the
 * subclass implementation of <code>readElement</code>.
 *
 * Logs an error if the element was not recognized.
 */
protected void readElements(IConfigurationElement[] elements) {
	for (int i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {
		if (!readElement(elements[i]))
			logUnknownElement(elements[i]);
	}
}
/**
 * Read one extension by looping through its
 * configuration elements.
 */
protected void readExtension(IExtension extension) {
	readElements(extension.getConfigurationElements());
}
/**
 *	Start the registry reading process using the
 * supplied plugin ID and extension point.
 */
protected void readRegistry(IPluginRegistry registry, String pluginId, String extensionPoint) {
	IExtensionPoint point = registry.getExtensionPoint(pluginId, extensionPoint);
	if (point != null) {
		IExtension[] extensions = point.getExtensions();
		extensions = orderExtensions(extensions);
		for (int i = 0; i < extensions.length; i++)
			readExtension(extensions[i]);
	}
}
}