Hi Angelo, Thank you for volunteering to work on the eclipse plug-in. The functionality you describe in your email is very promising. Is the code visible somewhere? I think cal10n provides very useful functionality and would like to see cal10n massively adopted by java developers. An eclipse plug-in would really help achieve such adoption. Would you like to see the eclipse plug-in incorporated into the cal10n code base or would you rather develop it as a closely related but still *separate* project? I would be happy either way. On 23/07/2010 1:07 AM, Angelo Tata wrote:
Hi, everybody.
I've started to work on an Eclipse plug-in for Cal10n (as you had probably guessed by reading the subject, I know). Here's a breakdown of the currently implemented features:
- enum types parsing (if the @BaseName annotation is present);
- Properties file parsing (only those explicitly mentioned through a @Locale annotation in some enum type);
- potential problems highlighting (both in the editor and the Markers view);
- the potential problems mirror those in Cal10nError.ErrorType, with the exception of MISSING_BN_ANNOTATION - since if @BaseName is missing no parsing is performed on the enum type;
- quick fix suggestions on all problems (using Ctrl-1 in the editor) - but only one currently working, see below;
- Levenshtein distance measurement and suggestions offered for property keys not found in the corresponding enum type.
Lots of things to be done, still. I'd say that implementing the other quick fixes is a priority. Moreover, right now the parsing is triggered by a full build only, while of course it should kick in on an incremental build (I should probably have an IResourceChangeListener, too, for property files).
As it happens, the time I'm able to dedicate to the project varies wildly, though the next few weeks may allow me some spare hours of coding time. *If* there's still actual interest, obviously - I have no idea of the current Cal10n's user base, or of the plans for Cal10n's future.
Any feedback is much appreciated, of course.
Regards,
Angelo