Symbol Source Provider

Identifier:
org.eclipse.jst.jsf.common.symbols

Since:
1.5

Description:
A symbol source provider is called to discover EL namespace variable symbols. For example, managed bean variable symbols, are contributed through a symbol source provider. A symbol source provider may or may not wish to use a context symbol factory depending on the situation. When an EL variable is resolved, each symbol provider will be considered equally. All of the information that determines a symbol's characteristics must be encoded in the returned ISymbol object. A list of registered symbol providers may be found by calling JSFCommonPlugin.getSymbolSourceProvider().

Configuration Markup:

<!ELEMENT extension (symbolSourceId)>

<!ATTLIST extension

point CDATA #REQUIRED

id    CDATA #IMPLIED

name  CDATA #IMPLIED

>


<!ELEMENT symbolSourceId EMPTY>

<!ATTLIST symbolSourceId

factory CDATA #REQUIRED

>


Examples:
The following xml is used to contribute a set of default providers to contribute managed bean, built-in and tag contributed variables:


   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.jst.jsf.context.symbol.symbolSourceProvider">
      <symbolSourceId factory="org.eclipse.jst.jsf.designtime.internal.symbols.DefaultBeanSymbolSourceProvider"/>
      <symbolSourceId factory="org.eclipse.jst.jsf.designtime.internal.symbols.JSPTagVariableSymbolSourceProvider"/>
      <symbolSourceId factory="org.eclipse.jst.jsf.designtime.internal.symbols.DefaultBuiltInSymbolProvider"/>
   </extension>


Copyright 2006 Oracle All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0 which accompanies this distribution, and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/