extending the Spring Explorer view

[sgladstone]

I am in the process of writting an Eclipse plugin. I would like to add an additional popupmenu item to the Spring Explorer View. Currently when a user right-clicks on the xml file name within the Spring Explorer, they see my menu item.

How can I change my plugin so that when the user right-clicks on a bean, they see my menu item?

Currently the popup menu for beans includes:
Open
Open Java Element
Open Graph
Validate
Properties

Thanks,
Sarah

[Christian Dupuis]

Sarah,

I think you're looking to the correct enablement to trigger your action. Here is the appropriate contribution from Spring IDE's plugin.xml

<extension
      point="org.eclipse.ui.navigator.navigatorContent">
      <actionProvider
          id="<your id>"
          class="<your action provider class">
	         <enablement>
				<or>
					<and>
						<instanceof value="org.eclipse.core.resources.IFile"/>
						<test property="org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.model.isBeansConfig"/>
					</and>
					<instanceof value="org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.io.ZipEntryStorage"/>
					<instanceof value="org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.model.IBeansModelElement"/>
					<instanceof value="org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.ui.model.metadata.BeanMetadataNode"/>
					<instanceof value="org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.model.metadata.IBeanMetadata"/>
	            </or>
	         </enablement>
      </actionProvider>
   </navigatorContent>
</extension>

Have a look at BeansNavigatorActionProvider class to see an example on how we add the actions to the menu.

HTH.

Christian

[sgladstone]

Christian- I am working on a plugin following your suggestion. I am using the XML you provided, and am attempting to use the Java code from FishEye in my own class. But I get many errors similar to the following errors:

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Code: openAction = new OpenActionWrapperAction(site, openConfigAction, openElementAction);

Error:
Access restriction: The constructor OpenActionWrapperAction(ICommonActionExtensionSite , OpenConfigFileAction, OpenJavaElementAction) is not accessible due to restriction on required library C:\Program Files\IBM\SDP70\plugins\org.springframework.ide.ec lipse.beans.ui_2.0.2.v200712142013.jar
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Code: openConfigAction = new OpenConfigFileAction(site);

Error:
Access restriction: The type OpenConfigFileAction is not accessible due to restriction on required library C:\Program Files\IBM\SDP70\plugins\org.springframework.ide.ec lipse.beans.ui_2.0.2.v200712142013.jar