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danzel
danzel

Reputation: 403

Documentation of Eclipse-PlatformFilter

I am currently developing plug-ins for an eclipse RCP application. One of the plug-ins needs OS-specific implementations.

It seems that plugin fragments would meet my needs (see e.g. 1, 2, 3).

I think I understand how fragments work now, but apart from the sparse documentation of fragments, there doesn't seem to be any documentation of the Eclipse-PlatformFilter header in the manifest file.

According to 4, it has to be a valid LDAP filter string, but that doesn't explain any more than the two examples I found on the internet (the MacOS cocoa one and the windows 32bit one).

So my question is:

Is there any documentation of the Eclipse-PlatformFilter header?

(If there isn't, can anybody tell me the valid values for the header?)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 695

Answers (1)

dgolovin
dgolovin

Reputation: 1442

The following is an example of the Eclipse-PlatformFilter header:

Eclipse-PlatformFilter: (& (osgi.ws=win32) (osgi.os=win32) (osgi.arch=x86))

Here are possible values for each osqi.* property

Operating system - osgi.os: win32, linux, macosx, aix, solaris, hpux, qnx

Windowing system - osgi.ws: win32, motif, gtk, photon, cocoa

Processor architecture osgi.arch: x86, x86_64, ia64, ia64_32, ppc, PA_RISC, sparc

Example above would activate fragment only when Eclipse is running on Windows 32bit.

If you want to activate when running on Windows 64bit you would use:

Eclipse-PlatformFilter: (& (osgi.ws=win32) (osgi.os=win32) (osgi.arch=x86_64))

on linux 32bit

Eclipse-PlatformFilter: (& (osgi.ws=gtk) (osgi.os=linux) (osgi.arch=x86))

on linux 64bit

Eclipse-PlatformFilter: (& (osgi.ws=gtk) (osgi.os=linux) (osgi.arch=x86_64))

on macOS 64bit and PowerPC

Eclipse-PlatformFilter: (& (osgi.ws=cocoa) (osgi.os=macosx) (|(osgi.arch=x86_64)(osgi.arch=ppc)))

You can pick at eclipse fragments to figure out filers for all supported platforms.

Upvotes: 4

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