I want to write a plugin which will give me content assist support and work in JSF. I want it to work like the sample below : I'll type "p:button action="#{ Then I'll press "Ctrl+Shift+Space" (for example) It'll read the classes in my project and show them as a list in a pop-up window Then I'll select one class. It'll be like below h:button action="#{MyClass When I type "." , It'll read the methods in my selected class and show them as a list in a pop-up window. Then I'll select a method Finally, It'll end like this "h:button action="#{MyClass.MyMethod} Do you have any idea, how can i do this? Any suggestions?

Reputation: 41

How to write an eclipse content assist?

I want to write a plugin which will give me content assist support and work in JSF. I want it to work like the sample below :

I'll type "p:button action="#{
Then I'll press "Ctrl+Shift+Space" (for example)
It'll read the classes in my project and show them as a list in a pop-up window
Then I'll select one class. It'll be like below
h:button action="#{MyClass
When I type "." , It'll read the methods in my selected class and show them as a list in a pop-up window.
Then I'll select a method
Finally, It'll end like this "h:button action="#{MyClass.MyMethod}

Do you have any idea, how can i do this? Any suggestions?

Upvotes: 4

Reputation: 1324168

One place to look for an example of content assist is to look at XText which already has this feature for DSL-like languages.

XText content assist

See the XText sources in its Git repository: by looking work the log message 'assist', you will have a list of commits all related to content assist implementation, like the XbaseProposalProvider.java class.

Upvotes: 2

Reputation: 1318

The following are both screenshots from the Web Page Editor which comes with the Java EE edition of Eclipse.

wtp editor 1

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You can install it by adding the following mirror to your Eclipse repository. Change the name depending on what version you use. For Helios it is http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/repository/helios.

Upvotes: 1