Project: Eclipse_Platform_UI
Bug 292813 [CommonNavigator] Please provide an API for enabling and disabling common navigator filters programmatically
Reported: 2009-10-20 15:37:34 | Status: verified fixed

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.0 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/3.0.195.27 Safari/532.0 Build Identifier: M20090917-0800 Recently I had a case where I wanted to enable/disable a common navigator filter from code and found it very difficult. I basically ended up using the code in org.eclipse.ui.internal.navigator.filters.UpdateActiveFiltersOperation as a reference and ended up manually creating or pruning an array, as well as adding/removing a corresponding ViewerFilter to/from and refreshing the underlying viewer. This seems quite complicated and I think others could benefit from it being API similar to how API was recently added to enable and disable content contributions (via INavigatorContentService#activateExtensions and INavigatorContentService#deactivateExtensions). Reproducible: Always

Files changed in fix:
bundles/org.eclipse.ui.navigator/src/org/eclipse/ui/internal/navigator/NavigatorFilterService.java bundles/org.eclipse.ui.navigator/src/org/eclipse/ui/internal/navigator/filters/CommonFilterSelectionDialog.java bundles/org.eclipse.ui.navigator/src/org/eclipse/ui/internal/navigator/filters/UpdateActiveFiltersOperation.java bundles/org.eclipse.ui.navigator/src/org/eclipse/ui/navigator/INavigatorFilterService.java tests/org.eclipse.ui.tests.navigator/src/org/eclipse/ui/tests/navigator/FilterTest.java tests/org.eclipse.ui.tests.navigator/src/org/eclipse/ui/tests/navigator/NavigatorTestBase.java tests/org.eclipse.ui.tests.navigator/src/org/eclipse/ui/tests/navigator/NavigatorTestSuite.java tests/org.eclipse.ui.tests.navigator/src/org/eclipse/ui/tests/navigator/OpenTest.java