When the user selects an item in a viewer component, any registered selection listeners will be notified. In order to forward changes to the E4 selection service, a listener needs to be created to forward the selection to the ESelectionService
.
com.packtpub.e4.clock.ui
project and navigating to Plug-in Tools | Open Manifest to open the bundle's manifest. On the Dependencies tab, click on Add under the Imported Packages section and enter org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.modeling
as well as org.eclipse.e4.core.di.annotations
.ESelectionService selectionService
annotated with @Inject
and @Optional
. When the part is created, the field will be filled with a selection service instance or null
as appropriate:@Inject @Optional private ESelectionService selectionService;
ISelectionChangeListener
to the treeViewer
with the following:treeViewer.addSelectionChangedListener(event -> { // forward selection Object selection = ((IStructuredSelection)event.getSelection()). getFirstElement(); if (selection != null && selectionService != null) { selectionService.setSelection(selection); } });
stSelection
method, and launch the Eclipse application in Debug
mode. Once it is running, open the Time Zone Tree View and select a time zone, after which the debugger should be presented. Verify that the selected time zone and the selectionService
have been injected correctly.To receive selection events from the tree viewer, a listener must be registered to pick up changes. In order to forward this to the E4 selection service, it must be obtained using injection. By marking the field with @Inject
, the selection service will be automatically injected when the part is created.
By marking the field as @Optional
, if the selection service is not available, then a null value will be injected instead. If the field is not marked as @Optional
and the service is not available, the part would fail to be created. Since the selection updates aren't a core part of the view's functionality, it is better to fail safely and work with reduced functionality rather than fail completely.
Finally, when the selection change event occurs, the selected object is extracted from the viewer and then forwarded onto the selection service, but only if both the selection and the selection service are not null
.
Although the selection mechanism in Eclipse 3.x uses ISelection
interfaces (almost always IStructuredSelection
), the E4 selection service permits objects to be set directly. This also allows the type of the object to be selectively filtered when received. In Eclipse 3.x, the viewer would set the selectionProvider
on the viewPart
, which would handle the selection changes automatically.
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