platform/openide.actions/arch.xml

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<answer id="arch-what">
<em>Actions</em> provides system of support and utility classes 
for 'actions' usage in NetBeans.
</answer>

<answer id="arch-usecases">
        First see the <a href="@TOP@/org/openide/actions/doc-files/api.html">API description</a>. Here is just
    a list of frequently asked or interesting questions slowly expanding as
    people ask them:
    
    <h3>Actions faq:</h3>
    
    <usecase id="context-action-shortcuts" name="How to define configurable Shortcut for Component based shortcut?" >
<em><b>Q:</b>
The usual Swing way of defining Actions for your component is to create an Action instance and put it into the Input and Action maps of your component.
However how to make this Action's shortcut configurable from the Tools/Keyboard Shortcuts dialog?</em>
<p>
In order for the action to show up in Keyboards Shortcut dialog you need the action defined in the 
layer file under "Actions" folder and have the shortcut defined there under "Keymaps/&lt;Profile Name&gt;" linking to your action.
</p>
<pre>
    &lt;folder name="Actions" &gt;
        &lt;folder name="Window"&gt;
            &lt;file name="org-netbeans-core-actions-PreviousViewCallbackAction.instance"/&gt;
        &lt;/folder&gt;
    &lt;/folder&gt;

    &lt;folder name="Keymaps"&gt;
        &lt;folder name="NetBeans"&gt;
            &lt;file name="S-A-Left.shadow"&gt;
                &lt;attr name="originalFile" stringvalue="Actions/Window/org-netbeans-core-actions-PreviousViewCallbackAction.instance"/&gt;
            &lt;/file&gt;
        &lt;/folder&gt;
    &lt;/folder&gt;
</pre>
<p>
The mentioned Action has to be a subclass of <code>org.openide.util.actions.CallbackSystemAction</code>. It does not necessarily has to 
perform the action, it's just a placeholder for linking the shortcut. You might want to override it's <code>getActionMapKey()</code> and give it a 
reasonable key.
</p>
<p>
The actual action that does the work in your component (preferably a simple Swing <code>javax.swing.Action</code>)
is to be put into your <code>TopComponent</code>'s <code>ActionMap</code>. The key for the <code>ActionMap</code> 
has to match the key defined in the global action's <code>getActionMapKey()</code> method.
</p>
<pre>
        getActionMap().put("PreviousViewAction", new MyPreviousTabAction());
</pre>
<p>
This way even actions from multiple <code>TopComponent</code>s with the same gesture (eg. "switch to next tab") can share the same configurable shortcut.
</p>
<p>
Note: Don't define your action's shortcut and don't put it into any of the <code>TopComponent</code>'s
<code>javax.swing.InputMap</code>. Otherwise the component would not pick up the changed shortcut from the
global context.
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<answer id="compat-i18n">
Yes.
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<answer id="compat-standards">
Before the Actions was build on <code>org.openide.util.actions.SystemAction</code>, this
was recently changed that Actions supports <code>javax.swing.Action</code> which
is java API standard, and Actions will be improving towards this more and more.
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<answer id="compat-version">
Yes up to now it is supposed to be compatible with older versions.
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<answer id="dep-jre">
It uses JRE 1.3.
</answer>



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<answer id="dep-jrejdk">
JRE is enough.
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<answer id="dep-nb">
It uses various kinds of API's:
<ul>
<li>
    <api 
        name="NodesAPI"
        group="java"
        type="import"
        category="official"
        url="@org-openide-nodes@/overview-summary.html"
    />
    The support class <code>NodeAction</code>.
</li>
<li>
    <api 
        name="WindowSystemAPI"
        group="java"
        type="import"
        category="official"
        url="@org-openide-windows@/overview-summary.html"
    />
    <code>NodeAction</code> uses <code>TopComponent.Registry</code>.
</li>
<li>
    <api 
        name="ExplorerAPI"
        group="java"
        type="import"
        category="official"
        url="@org-openide-explorer@/overview-summary.html"
    />
    <code>PasteAction</code> uses <code>ExplorerManager</code>.
</li>
<li>
    <api 
        name="FilesystemsAPI"
        group="java"
        type="import"
        category="official"
        url="@org-openide-filesystems@/overview-summary.html"
    />
    E.g. <code>FileSystemAction</code> uses <code>FileSystem</code>.
</li>
<li>
    <api 
        name="LoadersAPI"
        group="java"
        type="import"
        category="official"
        url="@org-openide-loaders@/overview-summary.html"
    />
    E.g. <code>FileSystemAction</code> uses <code>DataObject</code>.
</li>
<li>
    <api 
        name="UtilitiesAPI"
        group="java"
        type="import"
        category="official"
        url="@org-openide-util-ui@/overview-summary.html"
    />
</li>
</ul>
</answer>



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<answer id="dep-non-nb">
No.
</answer>



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<answer id="dep-platform">
100% pure Java. It should run anywhere.
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<answer id="deploy-jar">
Classes belonging to this module do not reside in standalone library.
They are bundled together with other parts of the openide in <code>openide.jar</code>.
</answer>



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<answer id="deploy-nbm">
Whole openide can be deployed via AU center.
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<answer id="deploy-packages">
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No, ther are <api name="ActionsAPI" group="java" type="export" category="official" url="@TOP@/overview-summary.html"/>.
</answer>



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<answer id="deploy-shared">
<code>openide.jar</code> needs to be in the system directory. 
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No.
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<answer id="exec-component">
There are used three values (via <code>Action.getValue()</code>).
<ul>
    <li><api name="OpenIDE-Transmodal-Action" group="property" category="devel" type="export">Inidicates action can be performed
    (typicaly via shortcut) even when dialog is popped out (modal or modeless).</api></li>
    <li><api name="delegates" group="property" category="devel" type="export">Used internaly in <code>PasteAction</code> delegate action
    which serves to pass an array of <code>PasteType</code> or <code>Action</code> to global instance (it is the only one
    which actually performs paste operation).</api></li>
    <li><api name="iconBase" group="property" category="devel" type="export">Used in companion to Actions.SMALL_ICON. Because there
    is no way to specify values for other types of icons the value of "iconBase" is used
    to construct the resource names of disabled, pressed and rollover icons. The value is
    expected to contain a resource path of the normal icon. Strings "_pressed",
    "_disabled" and "_rollover" are inserted before the suffix when searching for
    the other types of icons.</api></li>
    <li><api name="noIconInMenu" group="property" category="devel" type="export"> 
    Allowed value <code>Boolean.TRUE</code>.
    Influences the display of the action in the main menu, the item will have no icon there. Works for Actions that don't define custom MenuPresenter.
    </api></li>    
    <li><api name="PreferredIconSize" group="property" category="devel" type="export">
    Used to support 24x24 icons in toolbars. If toolbar button has client property "PreferredIconSize"
    set to Integer(24) button tries to load icon with name "iconBase" + "24" eg. "cut24.gif".
    Strings "_pressed","_disabled" and "_rollover" are inserted before the suffix when searching for
    the other types of icons eg.:"cut24_pressed.gif".</api></li>
    <li>
        <api name="waitFinished" group="property" category="friend" type="export">
             There is a new contract established between the caller of an action that
             allows mutual communication and possible synchronous execution even for 
             actions that by default perform their operations asynchronously. If the
             action's <code>actionPeformed</code> method is passed <code>ActionEvent</code>
             with command <q>waitFinished</q> the action shall be executed synchronously.
             The code:
             <pre>
             action.actionPerformed (new ActionEvent (this, 0, "waitFinished"))
             </pre>
             shall be executed synchronously, even if the action by default runs asynchronously.
             All asynchronous actions are asked to obey this contract, <code>CallableSystemAction</code>
             does it by default. However this contract is defined as friend one 
             and may be abandoned in future.
        </api>
    </li>
</ul>

<api name="ActionMapKeys" category="stable" group="property" type="export" >
<code>CallableSystemAction</code> uses its <code>getActionMapKey()</code> method
(usually overriden by subclasses) to get a key which is then searched in the
<code>ActionMap</code> obtained from the action's context. Other modules can
register their own action then: 
<pre>
topComponent.getActionMap ().put (theKey, new YourOwnSwingAction ());
</pre>
Here is the list of special keys:
<ul>
    <li><code>"cloneWindow"</code> - an action to be executed when a top component is to be cloned</li>
    <li><code>"closeWindow"</code> - an action when a view is about to be closed</li>
    <li><code>DefaultEditorKit.copyAction</code> - copy action handler</li>
    <li><code>DefaultEditorKit.cutAction</code> - cut action handler</li>
    <li><code>"delete"</code> - delete action handler</li>
    <li><code>DefaultEditorKit.pasteAction</code> - paste action handler</li>
    
    <!-- new since 5.8 -->
    <li><code>"jumpNext"</code> - when a next element shall be selected</li>
    <li><code>"jumpPrev"</code> - when a previous element shall be selected</li>
</ul>
</api>

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No.
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<answer id="exec-property">
        <ul>
            <li>
                <api type="export" group="systemproperty" name="org.openide.util.actions.CallableSystemAction.synchronousByDefault" category="friend">
                    If set to <code>true</code>, changes default value of the
                    <code>asynchronous()</code> method. Useful for unit tests
                    which would prefer to run all tested actions synchronously.
                </api>
            </li>
        </ul>
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<answer id="exec-reflection">
A bit indirectly. <code>SystemAction.get (...)</code> 
calls to <code>SharedClassObject.findObject</code> which calls constructor by reflection. 
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<answer id="format-clipboard">
Implementations of cut, copy and paste (<code>CutAction</code>, <code>CopyAction</code>
and <code>PasteAction</code>) reads/writes from/into clipboard. It uses standard
<a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api/java/awt/datatransfer/package-summary.html">java datatransfer mechanism</a>
and <a href="@org-openide-util-ui@/org/openide/util/datatransfer/package-summary.html">Netbeans extension to the mechanism</a>.
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See format-clibpoard.
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<answer id="format-types">
None.
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<answer id="lookup-lookup">
It uses <code>Lookup</code> as a representation of context in which are certain action
types <code>ContextAwareAction</code>s used. Current implementations
lookup in the context for <code>javax.swing.ActionMap</code>
or <code>org.openide.nodes.Node</code> or <code>org.openide.Node.Cookie</code>
instances.
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<answer id="lookup-register">
No. Actions are just clients of some lookups.
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<answer id="lookup-remove">
No.
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<answer id="perf-exit">
No.
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<answer id="perf-huge_dialogs">
Core implementation provides component for customizing shorcuts.
<code>org.netbeans.core.ShortcutsEditor</code>.
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<answer id="perf-limit">
None is defined.
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<answer id="perf-mem">
There is one class in VM per action. Because currently all actions are subclasses 
of <code>SystemAction</code>. 
Those kind of actions are singletons.
That older approach is getting away. There are already newer implementation
which creates short living action instances (context sensitive actions) 
when invoking popup menu. 
<br/>It should be measured how much of memory they take.
I guess the amount shouldn't be signicant.
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<answer id="perf-menus">
Actions doesn't use menus, it is vice versa.
</answer>



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<answer id="perf-progress">
No.
</answer>



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<answer id="perf-scale">
This should be irrelevant, as far as I know, Actions shouldn't use any collections
of data or something like that. One exception I know is global keymap implementation
which scales linear.
</answer>



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<answer id="perf-startup">
No.
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<answer id="perf-wakeup">
No. At least I do not know about that.
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<answer id="resources-file">
No.
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<answer id="resources-layer">
    <api name="UI-ToolActions" group="layer" type="export" category="stable">
        Register your <a href="@JDK@/javax/swing/Action.html">javax.swing.Action</a>
        instances in <code>UI/ToolActions</code> folder to make them known
        to <a href="@TOP@/org/openide/actions/ToolsAction.html">ToolsAction</a>.
    </api>
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<answer id="resources-mask">
No.
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<answer id="resources-read">
There are special folders containing actions in xml layers.
<ul>
<li><em>Menu</em> contains actions which are present in menu.</li>
<li><em>Toolbars</em> contains actions which will be present in toolbars.</li>
<li><em>Shortcuts</em> contains actions which will have assigned shortcuts.</li>
<li><em>Actions</em> contains actions which are possible to manipulate with (via Options).</li>
</ul>
<em>Note:</em> Those layers are not necessarily read by Actions module. Probably 
it belongs to <em>Window system module</em>.
</answer>


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            NbPreferences or or regular JDK Preferences ? Does it read, write or both ? 
            Does it share preferences with other modules ? If so, then why ?
            
            <hint>You may use &lt;api type="export" group="preferences" name="preference node name"
            category="private"&gt;  description of individual keys, where it is used, what it influences, 
            whether the module reads/write it, etc. &lt;/api&gt;  Due to XML ID restrictions, rather than 
            /org/netbeans/modules/foo give the "name" as org.netbeans.modules.foo. Note that if you use 
            NbPreferences this name will then be the same as the code name base of the module.
            </hint>
        </question>
-->
<answer id="resources-preferences">
    <api group="preferences" name="org.openide.actions.HeapView" type="export" category="private">
      <table>
          <tbody>
              <tr>
                  <th>key</th>
                  <th>description</th>
                  <th>read</th>
                  <th>write</th>
              </tr>
              <tr>
                  <td>showDropShadow</td>
                  <td>Preserves "Drop Shadow" setting of the view</td>
                  <td>x</td>
                  <td>x</td>
              </tr>
              <tr>
                  <td>showText</td>
                  <td>Preserves "Show Text" setting of the view</td>
                  <td>x</td>
                  <td>x</td>
              </tr>
              <tr>
                  <td>tickStyle</td>
                  <td>Preserves "Overlay Grid" setting of the view</td>
                  <td>x</td>
                  <td>x</td>
              </tr>
          </tbody>
      </table>
  </api>
</answer>


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        <question id="arch-overall" when="init">
            Describe the overall architecture. 
            <hint>
            What will be API for 
            <a href="http://openide.netbeans.org/tutorial/api-design.html#design.apiandspi" shape="rect">
                clients and what support API</a>? 
            What parts will be pluggable?
            How will plug-ins be registered? Please use <code>&lt;api type="export"/&gt;</code>
            to describe your general APIs.
            If possible please provide 
            simple diagrams. 
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 <answer id="arch-overall">
  <p>
   XXX no answer for arch-overall
  </p>
 </answer>



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        <question id="arch-quality" when="init">
            How will the <a href="http://www.netbeans.org/community/guidelines/q-evangelism.html" shape="rect">quality</a>
            of your code be tested and 
            how are future regressions going to be prevented?
            <hint>
            What kind of testing do
            you want to use? How much functionality, in which areas,
            should be covered by the tests? 
            </hint>
        </question>
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 <answer id="arch-quality">
  <p>
   XXX no answer for arch-quality
  </p>
 </answer>



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            <hint>
            Please express your estimates of how long the design, implementation,
            stabilization are likely to last. How many people will be needed to
            implement this and what is the expected milestone by which the work should be 
            ready?
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 <answer id="arch-time">
  <p>
   XXX no answer for arch-time
  </p>
 </answer>



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        <question id="arch-where" when="init">
            Where one can find sources for your module?
            <hint>
                Please provide link to the CVS web client at
                http://www.netbeans.org/download/source_browse.html
                or just use tag defaultanswer generate='here'
            </hint>
        </question>
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 <answer id="arch-where">
  <defaultanswer generate='here' />
 </answer>



 <answer id="deploy-dependencies">
  <p>
   Nothing.
  </p>
 </answer>



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        <question id="exec-ant-tasks" when="impl">
            Do you define or register any ant tasks that other can use?
            
            <hint>
            If you provide an ant task that users can use, you need to be very
            careful about its syntax and behaviour, as it most likely forms an
	          API for end users and as there is a lot of end users, their reaction
            when such API gets broken can be pretty strong.
            </hint>
        </question>
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 <answer id="exec-ant-tasks">
  <p>
   XXX no answer for exec-ant-tasks
  </p>
 </answer>



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        <question id="exec-introspection" when="impl">
            Does your module use any kind of runtime type information (<code>instanceof</code>,
            work with <code>java.lang.Class</code>, etc.)?
            <hint>
            Check for cases when you have an object of type A and you also
            expect it to (possibly) be of type B and do some special action. That
            should be documented. The same applies on operations in meta-level
            (Class.isInstance(...), Class.isAssignableFrom(...), etc.).
            </hint>
        </question>
-->
 <answer id="exec-introspection">
  <p>
   XXX no answer for exec-introspection
  </p>
 </answer>



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        <question id="exec-process" when="impl">
            Do you execute an external process from your module? How do you ensure
            that the result is the same on different platforms? Do you parse output?
            Do you depend on result code?
            <hint>
            If you feed an input, parse the output please declare that as an API.
            </hint>
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 <answer id="exec-process">
  <p>
   XXX no answer for exec-process
  </p>
 </answer>



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        <question id="exec-threading" when="impl">
            What threading models, if any, does your module adhere to?
            <hint>
                If your module calls foreign APIs which have a specific threading model,
                indicate how you comply with the requirements for multithreaded access
                (synchronization, mutexes, etc.) applicable to those APIs.
                If your module defines any APIs, or has complex internal structures
                that might be used from multiple threads, declare how you protect
                data against concurrent access, race conditions, deadlocks, etc.,
                and whether such rules are enforced by runtime warnings, errors, assertions, etc.
                Examples: a class might be non-thread-safe (like Java Collections); might
                be fully thread-safe (internal locking); might require access through a mutex
                (and may or may not automatically acquire that mutex on behalf of a client method);
                might be able to run only in the event queue; etc.
                Also describe when any events are fired: synchronously, asynchronously, etc.
                Ideas: <a href="http://core.netbeans.org/proposals/threading/index.html#recommendations" shape="rect">Threading Recommendations</a> (in progress)
            </hint>
        </question>
-->
 <answer id="exec-threading">
  <p>
   XXX no answer for exec-threading
  </p>
 </answer>



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        <question id="perf-spi" when="init">
            How the performance of the plugged in code will be enforced?
            <hint>
            If you allow foreign code to be plugged into your own module, how
            do you enforce that it will behave correctly and quickly and will not
            negatively influence the performance of your own module?
            </hint>
        </question>
-->
 <answer id="perf-spi">
  <p>
   XXX no answer for perf-spi
  </p>
 </answer>



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        <question id="security-grant" when="final">
            Does your code grant additional rights to some other code?
            <hint>Avoid using a class loader that adds extra
            permissions to loaded code unless really necessary.
            Also note that your API implementation
            can also expose unneeded permissions to enemy code by
            calling AccessController.doPrivileged().</hint>
        </question>
-->
 <answer id="security-grant">
  <p>
   XXX no answer for security-grant
  </p>
 </answer>



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        <question id="security-policy" when="final">
            Does your functionality require modifications to the standard policy file?
            <hint>Your code might pass control to third-party code not
            coming from trusted domains. This could be code downloaded over the
            network or code coming from libraries that are not bundled
            with NetBeans. Which permissions need to be granted to which domains?</hint>
        </question>
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 <answer id="security-policy">
  <p>
   XXX no answer for security-policy
  </p>
 </answer>

</api-answers>