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The content type manager provides facilities for file name and content-based type lookup and content description.
This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients.
IContentTypeMatcher
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Platform.getContentTypeManager()
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static class |
IContentTypeManager.ContentTypeChangeEvent
An event object which describes the details of a change to a content type. |
static interface |
IContentTypeManager.IContentTypeChangeListener
A listener to be used to receive content type change events. |
static interface |
IContentTypeManager.ISelectionPolicy
A policy for refining the set of content types that should be accepted during content type matching operations. |
Field Summary | |
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static String |
CT_TEXT
Content type identifier constant for platform's primary text-based content type: org.eclipse.core.runtime.text .
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void |
addContentTypeChangeListener(IContentTypeManager.IContentTypeChangeListener listener)
Register the given listener for notification of content type changes. |
IContentType[] |
getAllContentTypes()
Returns all content types known by the platform. |
IContentType |
getContentType(String contentTypeIdentifier)
Returns the content type with the given identifier, or null
if no such content type is known by the platform. |
IContentTypeMatcher |
getMatcher(IContentTypeManager.ISelectionPolicy customPolicy,
IScopeContext context)
Returns a newly created content type matcher using the given content type selection policy and preference scope. |
void |
removeContentTypeChangeListener(IContentTypeManager.IContentTypeChangeListener listener)
De-register the given listener from receiving notification of content type changes. |
Methods inherited from interface org.eclipse.core.runtime.content.IContentTypeMatcher |
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findContentTypeFor, findContentTypeFor, findContentTypesFor, findContentTypesFor, getDescriptionFor, getDescriptionFor |
Field Detail |
public static final String CT_TEXT
org.eclipse.core.runtime.text
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All text-based content types ought to be sub types of the content type identified by this string. This provides a simple way for detecting whether a content type is text-based:
IContentType text = Platform.getContentTypeManager().getContentType(IContentTypeManager.CT_TEXT); IContentType someType = ...; boolean isTextBased = someType.isKindOf(text);
Method Detail |
public void addContentTypeChangeListener(IContentTypeManager.IContentTypeChangeListener listener)
null
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listener
- the content type change listener to registerremoveContentTypeChangeListener(IContentTypeManager.IContentTypeChangeListener)
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IContentTypeManager.IContentTypeChangeListener
public IContentType[] getAllContentTypes()
Returns an empty array if there are no content types available.
public IContentType getContentType(String contentTypeIdentifier)
null
if no such content type is known by the platform.
contentTypeIdentifier
- the identifier for the content type
null
public IContentTypeMatcher getMatcher(IContentTypeManager.ISelectionPolicy customPolicy, IScopeContext context)
null
, the default scope
is used.
customPolicy
- a selection policycontext
- a user preference context to be used by the matcher, or null
public void removeContentTypeChangeListener(IContentTypeManager.IContentTypeChangeListener listener)
null
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listener
- the content type change listener to removeaddContentTypeChangeListener(IContentTypeManager.IContentTypeChangeListener)
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IContentTypeManager.IContentTypeChangeListener
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