[forge-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (FORGE-143) Create some base classes for plugin development

[Jason Porter (Commented) (JIRA)]

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Jason Porter commented on FORGE-143:
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If it's part of a facet, that will work too. I haven't read the new docs yet, but Facets need to play a bigger part, maybe putting some of these utilities on the facets makes more sense. Things like current package, creating Java files, common things each plugin would need to do. There's no point in having each plugin copy / paste all the same code to do the same actions.
                
> Create some base classes for plugin development
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>                 Key: FORGE-143
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-143
>             Project: Forge
>          Issue Type: Enhancement
>          Components: Plugin API
>    Affects Versions: 1.0.0.Alpha4
>            Reporter: Jason Porter
>            Priority: Minor
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> There are some core actions a plugin that creates Java classes must do, such as get the current package. Actions like this should be on an abstract base class such as JavaSourceCreationPluginBase (maybe something shorter?) which would also implement Plugin (so we don't break existing plugins) that will have these methods baked in so each plugin doesn't end up copying the code from somewhere else. If Java had mixins this would be a perfect fit, alas, it does not and we're stuck with something else.
> The class would probably have to have some abstract getter methods that the subclass would have to implement to get common things like the project.

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