plugins/org.eclipse.wst.validation.ui/validateui/org/eclipse/wst/validation/internal/ui/ValidateAction.java

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package org.eclipse.wst.validation.internal.ui;


import org.eclipse.core.resources.IResource;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.IStructuredSelection;
import org.eclipse.ui.actions.SelectionListenerAction;


public class ValidateAction extends SelectionListenerAction {
	protected ValidationMenuAction delegate;

	public ValidateAction() {
		super(ValidationUIMessages.Validate);
		delegate = new ValidationMenuAction();
	}

	/**
	 * Implementation of method defined on <code>IAction</code>.
	 */
	public void run() {
		delegate.run(this);
	}

	/**
	 * Updates this action in response to the given selection.
	 * <p>
	 * The <code>SelectionListenerAction</code> implementation of this method returns
	 * <code>true</code>. Subclasses may extend to react to selection changes; however, if the
	 * super method returns <code>false</code>, the overriding method must also return
	 * <code>false</code>.
	 * </p>
	 * 
	 * @param selection
	 *            the new selection
	 * @return <code>true</code> if the action should be enabled for this selection, and
	 *         <code>false</code> otherwise
	 */
	protected boolean updateSelection(IStructuredSelection selection) {
		if (!super.updateSelection(selection))
			return false;

		delegate.selectionChanged(this, selection);

		return isEnabled(); // "Enabled" is set by the delegate.
	}

	/**
	 * If a subclass of ValidateAction enables this menu action on a type that is not an IResource,
	 * this method returns the IResource[] that represent that object. If null is returned, the
	 * object will be ignored and the user will not be notified that the object was not validated.
	 * This method will be called when updateSelection and run are called. (The result of this
	 * method is used to determine which resources will be validated)
	 */
	protected IResource[] getResource(Object selected) {
		return null;
	}
}