Package org.eclipse.ui.ide

Interface IUnassociatedEditorStrategy

public interface IUnassociatedEditorStrategy

This interface represents a strategy for choosing an IEditorDescriptor for a given file name. It's used by the org.eclipse.ui.ide.unassociatedEditorStrategy extension point.

Since:

3.12

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
IEditorDescriptor	getEditorDescriptor(String fileName, IEditorRegistry editorRegistry)

Method Details

getEditorDescriptor

IEditorDescriptor getEditorDescriptor(String fileName,
 IEditorRegistry editorRegistry)
                               throws CoreException,
OperationCanceledException

Parameters:

fileName - Name of the file to open

editorRegistry - the IDE editor registry

Returns:

an IEditorDescriptor for editor to use to open this file, or null if no editor was resolved for that file name.

Throws:

CoreException - in case descriptor lookup fails with an error

OperationCanceledException - in case descriptor lookup was cancelled by the user