Document Creation

org.eclipse.core.filebuffers.documentCreation

3.0

This extension point is used to customize the document creation behavior of this plug-in's default text file buffer manager. It allows to specify which document factory should be used in order to create the document instance of a text file buffer created for a certain file content type, file extension, or file name.

<!ELEMENT extension (factory)>

<!ATTLIST extension

point CDATA #REQUIRED

id    CDATA #IMPLIED

name  CDATA #IMPLIED>


<!ELEMENT factory EMPTY>

<!ATTLIST factory

class         CDATA #REQUIRED

extensions    CDATA #IMPLIED

fileNames     CDATA #IMPLIED

contentTypeId CDATA #IMPLIED>

The specification of a document factory. In order to find a factory for a given file the attributes of each factory specification are consulted in the following sequence: contentTypeId, fileNames, extensions. If multiple, equally specific factory specifications are found for a given file it is not specified which factory is used.



<extension id=

"org.eclipse.jdt.debug.ui.SnippetDocumentFactory"

name=

"%snippetDocumentFactory.name"

point=

"org.eclipse.core.filebuffers.documentCreation"

>

<factory extensions=

"jpage"

class=

"org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.snippeteditor.SnippetDocumentFactory"

>

</factory>

</extension>

Document factories have to implement org.eclipse.core.filebuffers.IDocumentFactory.