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| Jabbering Consoles</h1> |
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| <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:.5in;margin-left:53.0pt'><span |
| style='font-family:Arial'><b>Summary</b></span><span style='font-family:Arial'> |
| <br> |
| Traditionally, consoles are used to display output and provide input to |
| programs. The console plug-in in the Eclipse SDK provides a flexible framework |
| for building text based consoles complete with pattern matching and hyperlink |
| support, and also clients to provide arbitrary implementations of consoles with |
| custom presentations. This article showcases the console framework in Eclipse |
| with an example implementation of a console that supports instant messaging. <o:p></o:p></span></p> |
| |
| <p style='margin-right:.5in;margin-left:53.0pt'><b>By Darin Wright, IBM |
| Rational Software Group<br> |
| Kevin Barnes, IBM Rational Software Group</b><span style='font-weight:normal'><br> |
| </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>November 5, 2004</span> <o:p></o:p></p> |
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| <h2 style='margin-left:17.0pt'>Introduction</h2> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'>The org.eclipse.ui.console plug-in provides a |
| framework for building and managing consoles. A console view displays all registered |
| consoles. Each console is displayed by a page within the console view, and a |
| console may be visible in any number of console views at any given time. A |
| console manager maintains the currently registered set of consoles, and |
| provides notification when consoles are added and removed. All consoles |
| registered with the manager are displayed in the console view.<o:p></o:p></p> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'>An extensible implementation of text based |
| consoles is provided by the console plug-in. A text console maintains a |
| partitionable document supporting regular expression matching and hyperlinks. |
| The most general text console is used for displaying and editing a document. |
| For example, the Java Stack Trace Console contributed by the Java debugger is a |
| text console that supports pasting and navigating stack traces. The more |
| specialized I/O console is used to display read-only output streams and |
| provides an input stream that accepts input from the keyboard. For example, |
| when an application is launched from Eclipse, an I/O console is used to display |
| its standard output and error streams and provide input to its standard input |
| stream.<o:p></o:p></p> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'>[insert image: the console view]<o:p></o:p></p> |
| |
| <h3 style='margin-left:17.0pt'>Basic API</b></h2> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'>The first thing that users think of when the |
| console is mention is the Console View. This view is a <span style='font-family: |
| "Courier New"'>PageBookView</span> that contains a page for every console |
| registered with the console manager. The Console View is an implementation of <span |
| style='font-family:"Courier New"'>IConsoleView</span> and clients may interact |
| with the view to manage the features provided by the view such as displaying a |
| specific console, pinning a console on top of other pages, and turn scroll lock |
| on or off. Consoles are never added directly to a Console View, instead a |
| Console View contains all consoles that have been added to the console manager.<o:p></o:p></p> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'>The console managerÂ’s API is defined by <span |
| style='font-family:"Courier New"'>IConsoleManager</span>, a singleton manager |
| class available from the <span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>ConsolePlugin</span> |
| class via <span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>ConsolePlugin.getDefault().getConsoleManager()</span>. |
| All consoleÂ’s added to a console manager will be displayed in all Console Views.<o:p></o:p></p> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'>Every console implements <span style='font-family: |
| "Courier New"'>IConsole</span>, providing a name, and an optional image and |
| type. The console plug-in provides an abstract base class that all console |
| implementations are intended to subclass - <span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>AbstractConsole</span>. |
| The base class provides an implementation of function common to consoles: |
| getters, setters, and change notification for name, image, and type attributes; |
| infrastructure for adding and removing property change listeners and firing |
| property change notification; and lifecycle methods for initialization and |
| cleanup (<span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>init()</span> and <span |
| style='font-family:"Courier New"'>dispose()</span>) that can be specialized in |
| subclasses. Two subclasses of AbstractConsole are also provided by the console |
| plugin. <span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>TextConsole</span> does |
| hyperlinking and regular expression pattern matching, and <span |
| style='font-family:"Courier New"'>IOConsole</span> which additionally provides |
| a document partitioner and streams for interacting with the console.<o:p></o:p></p> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'>The streams provided by <span style='font-family: |
| "Courier New"'>IOConsole</span> are regular java.io streams, but also allow you |
| to set some stream specific attributes such as color and font style. The <span |
| style='font-family:"Courier New"'>IOConsoleOutputStream</span> also allows |
| clients to specify whether the console should be activated when the stream is |
| written to.<o:p></o:p></p> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'>Page participants (<span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>IConsolePageParticipant</span>) |
| can be selectively contributed to text consoles via the <span style='font-family: |
| "Courier New"'>consolePageParticipants</span> extension point. A page |
| participant can add actions to the console tool bar and context menu, provide |
| adapters for the page, and implement custom function for the page. For example, |
| the Java Stack Trace Console previously mentioned, contributes a page |
| participant that adds Format and Close actions to the console tool bar.<o:p></o:p></p> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'>Pattern matchers can also be contributed to text |
| consoles selectively via the <span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>consolePatternMatchListeners</span> |
| extension point, or they can be programmatically added (<span style='font-family: |
| "Courier New"'>TextConsole.addPatternMatchListener(IPatternMatchListener)</span>). |
| The most common use of pattern matching is to add hyperlinks (<span |
| style='font-family:"Courier New"'>IHyperlink</span>) to a text console.<o:p></o:p></p> |
| |
| <h2 style='margin-left:17.0pt'>Instant messaging</h2> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'><Overview of the parts of our example: a |
| console to send/receive messages and file transfer, a buddy list. Built using |
| Jabber/Smack.><br> |
| Instant messaging has become an integral part of every day communication for |
| many of us. Many messaging protocols and applications exist, but all share the |
| same basic functionality - creation of a buddy list that informs us of our |
| contacts availability, and ability to communicate with our buddies in real-time |
| when they are available. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how a |
| simple instant messaging plug-in can be written quickly for Eclipse using |
| Eclipse consoles and the Jabber protocols. <o:p></o:p></p> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'>Jabber is an open set of protocols and |
| technologies that allow for the exchange of messages, presence, and other |
| structured information in close to real time. The Internet Engineering Task |
| Force (IETF) has formalized the core set of jabber's protocols as an approved |
| instant messaging and presence technology called Extensible Messaging and |
| Presence Protocol (XMPP). Jive Software has developed an open source XMPP |
| client library called Smack that we will be using to build our application.<o:p></o:p></p> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'>When complete, our plug-in will consist of a new |
| Buddy List view and will reuse existing consoles to send and receive messages.<o:p></o:p></p> |
| |
| <h2 style='margin-left:17.0pt'>The Supporting cast</h2> |
| |
| <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; |
| margin-left:17.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:Arial'><>Before |
| jumping into the console itself it's necessary to spend some time discussing a |
| few other classes that allow us to have a functioning chat client.<br> |
| <br> |
| As with any chat application it's necessary to have a connection to a server |
| before any messages can be sent or received. In this plug-in it is the |
| ChatManager that is responsible for managing that connection. The ChatManager |
| is an f<br> |
| The central character is of course the connection to the server. Overview of |
| the chat manager, chat session, and buddy view<br> |
| Chat Manager<br> |
| - the brains of the operation.<br> |
| - Manages the connection (does the login, listens for incoming messages, and |
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| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'>Chat Session<br> |
| - creates and manages a chat console (displays messages as they are received |
| from other chat participants, reads from the console's input stream and sends |
| messages to the other participant)<o:p></o:p></p> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'>RosterView<br> |
| - I should probably just call this Buddy View for clarity. <br> |
| - Tree Viewer. Displays Buddy groups, buddies and their current precence.<br> |
| - Does it allow you to add buddies/groups? It should.<o:p></o:p></p> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'>Login Dialog<br> |
| - allows login and register. Explain register... most users probably won't have |
| a jabber screen name. <o:p></o:p></p> |
| |
| <h2 style='margin-left:17.0pt'>The chat console</h2> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'>Since the purpose of this article is really to demonstrate |
| how the Eclipse Console Framework makes some task very simple, our chat |
| application is going to be console based. The framework does a few things to |
| make our lives easier. It provides a common view that will display all of our |
| consoles for us, it provides generic and reusable base implemenations of |
| consoles that cna be used as is, and it provides the necessary API to allow for |
| the creation of custom consoles. Anyone wishing to implement a Text based |
| console should consider using or extending the base implementions - Text |
| Console and IOConsole (for stream based consoles) - provided by the framework.<o:p></o:p></p> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'>For each chat session we'll be using an IOConsole |
| as is. The functionality provided by the base console is enough to do what we |
| require for demonstration purposed. Creating a console is simple and done by |
| the constructor of ChatSession:<o:p></o:p></p> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'><code> fConsole = new IOConsole("Chat: |
| " + fChat.getParticipant(), "Chat", null); </code><o:p></o:p></p> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'>Adding the console to the view is done later in |
| the same constructor. It's as simple as adding the console to the |
| IConsoleManager provided by the console plugin:<br> |
| <code> <br> |
| IConsoleManager consoleManager = |
| ConsolePlugin.getDefault().getConsoleManager();<br> |
| consoleManager.addConsoles(new |
| IConsole[] { fConsole });<br> |
| </code><o:p></o:p></p> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'>Every IOConsole is stream based, we can write to |
| the console by creating an IOConsoleOutputStream <br> |
| <code>fConsole.newOutputStream();<code><br> |
| and using its write() methods.<o:p></o:p></p> |
| |
| <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; |
| margin-left:17.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:Arial'><>IOConsole |
| allows you to create as many IOConsoleOutputStreams as you need.It also allows |
| for each stream to be presented uniquely in the console with methods such as |
| setFontStyle(int newFontStyle), and setColor(Color color). It also allow you to |
| decide whether or not the ConsoleView should be "activated" when the |
| stream is used. Explain activation quickly now. For our demo we only need one |
| output stream, but we will change it's color to differentiated messages we send |
| from those that we receive. Remember that accessing you need to use the UI |
| thread to access system colors. The code looks like this:<br> |
| <code><br> |
| final Display display = ChatPlugin.getStandardDisplay();<br> |
| display.asyncExec(new Runnable() {<br> |
| public void |
| run() {<br> |
| |
| fIn.setColor(display.getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_DARK_BLUE));<br> |
| |
| out.setColor(display.getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_DARK_RED));<br> |
| |
| out.setActivateOnWrite(true);<br> |
| }<br> |
| });<br> |
| fOut = new PrintStream(out); // for |
| convenience<br> |
| </code><br> |
| <br> |
| This output stream will be used to write messages that we receive to our |
| console, but we also want to be able to send messages. For this we'll need to |
| use the IOConsoleInputStream provided by the IOConsole. IOConsole only provides |
| one input stream via the getInputStream() method. The IOConsoleInputStream is |
| very similar to the related output stream. Anything that the user types into |
| the console will be accessible via the streams read() methods once the user |
| hits "enter". We'll start a thread to read from the input stream, and |
| send each message as it's entered. Our thread will do the following.<br> |
| <code><br> |
| int read = |
| 0;<br> |
| byte[] bytes |
| = new byte[1024];<br> |
| try {<br> |
| |
| while (!fKilled && read >= 0) {<br> |
| |
| read = fIn.read(bytes);<br> |
| |
| if (read > 0)<br> |
| |
| fChat.sendMessage(new String(bytes, 0, read));<br> |
| |
| }<br> |
| } catch |
| (IOException e) {<br> |
| |
| e.printStackTrace();<br> |
| } catch |
| (XMPPException e) {<br> |
| |
| e.printStackTrace();<br> |
| }<br> |
| close();<br> |
| </code><br> |
| <br> |
| With very little code we have been able to create and display a new console |
| that is able to display messages from other users and respond to them.<o:p></o:p></span></p> |
| |
| <h2 style='margin-left:17.0pt'>Pattern matching and hyperlinks</h2> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'>Use pattern matching to find URLs, add hyperlinks |
| for URLs, also add hyperlinks to use name for "add user".<br> |
| Explain the console pattern matching with URL example. <br> |
| Walk through add user enough to show that pattern matchers can be added |
| programmatically.<o:p></o:p></p> |
| |
| <h2 style='margin-left:17.0pt'>The page participant</h2> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'>Adds action for file transfer, and pattern |
| matching for painting a smily face<br> |
| - Actually does none of the above. Only adds remove console to the tool bar.<br> |
| - Avoid discussing command/context stuff here. Too messy. If anyone asks give |
| them Doug's email address and home phone number.<o:p></o:p></p> |
| |
| <h2 style='margin-left:17.0pt'>The console factory</h2> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'>a factory to open a chat session<br> |
| Pretty simple stuff. screen shots and code. not too much explanation |
| needed. Maybe talk about other console factories??<o:p></o:p></p> |
| |
| <h2 style='margin-left:17.0pt'>Other stuff?</h2> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'>tip: to warn of content change in a console<br> |
| </p> |
| |
| <h2 style='margin-left:17.0pt'>Summary and further information</h2> |
| |
| <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; |
| margin-left:17.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:Arial'>Stress |
| resusable, extensible, simple... themes Built to last and Ease of Use. Show |
| that we make people's lives easy.<br> |
| The Eclipse platform provides a very powerful framework that enables.<br> |
| jabber.org link for XMPP information<br> |
| Jive Software (Smack) http://www.jivesoftware.org/smack/<o:p></o:p></span></p> |
| |
| <h2 style='margin-left:17.0pt'>Acknowledgements</h2> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'>Thanks to people for their careful reviews and |
| critiques that have improved this paper.<o:p></o:p></p> |
| |
| <h2 style='margin-left:17.0pt'>Source code</h2> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'><img width=61 height=13 id="_x0000_i1027" |
| src="../../images/article_images/tryit.gif">To examine the entire source code, or to run the |
| example, download the <a href="pda-plugins.zip">zip file</a> and unzip it into |
| your Eclipse directory. The plug-in comes with complete source code. This |
| article describes, and the included code requires, features that are available |
| in Eclipse 3.1 M3 or a later version.<o:p></o:p></p> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'><b>Trademarks</b><span style='font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></p> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'>IBM and Rational are registered trademarks of |
| International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other |
| countries, or both.<o:p></o:p></p> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'>Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds in the |
| United States, other countries, or both.<o:p></o:p></p> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'>Microsoft and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft |
| Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both.<o:p></o:p></p> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'>Java and all Java-based trademarks are trademarks |
| of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States, other countries, or both.<o:p></o:p></p> |
| |
| <p style='margin-left:17.0pt'>Other company, product, and service names may be |
| trademarks or service marks of others.<o:p></o:p></p> |
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