Sub Merge Extenders

Identifier:

com.ibm.xtools.comparemerge.ui.submergeExtenders

Since:

7.0

Description:

This extension point allows a plug-in to register submerge extenders and participate in sub merge activities. The extender is expected to implementcom.ibm.xtools.comparemerge.ui.submerge.ISubMergeExtender or extend com.ibm.xtools.comparemerge.ui.submerge.TextSubMergeExtender. If the extenders can merge the given changed data, then it will be asked to decorate its menu item, spcify the registered Eclipse content type or use its custom merge viewer that implement org.eclipse.compare.IViewerCreator interface, create its ICompareInput object and convert the merged result to merged value object.

Configuration Markup:

<!ELEMENT extension (submergeExtender+)>

<!ATTLIST extension

point CDATA #REQUIRED

id CDATA #IMPLIED

name CDATA #IMPLIED>

<!ELEMENT submergeExtender EMPTY>

<!ATTLIST submergeExtender

id CDATA #REQUIRED

class CDATA #REQUIRED

contentTypeId CDATA #REQUIRED>

id - a unique identifier that can be used to reference this sub merge extender
class - name of a class that implements com.ibm.xtools.comparemerge.ui.submerge.ISubMergeExtender
contentTypeId - The content type id

Examples:

The following is an example of a sub merge extender extension.


   <extension
         point="com.ibm.xtools.comparemerge.ui.submergeExtenders">
      <submergeExtender
            class="com.ibm.xtools.comparemerge.ui.submerge.JavaSourceSubMergeExtender"
            id="javaSourceSubMergeExtender"/>
   </extension>

API Information:

The value of the class attribute must implement the interface com.ibm.xtools.comparemerge.ui.submerge.ISubMergeExtender.

Supplied Implementation:

The TextSubMergeExtender class is a good convinience base class for extender that work on text data.