[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBIDE-2023) Population of Action Class

[Brian Fitzpatrick (JIRA)]

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Brian Fitzpatrick commented on JBIDE-2023:
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The "action" XML element in the ESB schema has a "class" attribute. 

For example, this ESB configuration has three actions:

            <actions mep="OneWay">
                   <action name="action1" 
                   	class="org.jboss.soa.esb.samples.quickstart.helloworld.MyJMSListenerAction" 
                   	process="displayMessage" 
                   	/>      
                    <action name="action2" class="org.jboss.soa.esb.actions.SystemPrintln">
                      <property name="printfull" value="true"/>
                    </action>
                    <!-- The next action is for Continuous Integration testing -->
                    <action name="testStore" class="org.jboss.soa.esb.actions.TestMessageStore"/>
            </actions>

All of these actions are predefined by ESB - org.jboss.soa.esb.samples.quickstart.helloworld.MyJMSListenerAction, org.jboss.soa.esb.actions.SystemPrintln, and org.jboss.soa.esb.actions.TestMessageStore

In the UI, when the user is entering the class name for this attribute, right now it's just a text field. We'd like to add content assist to the text field to help the user find the right class if they know a portion of the full package/name. And we'd like to add a Browse button that opens a dialog something similar to what John Graham mentioned in an earlier comment for his ESB Action View. The Browse dialog should allow the user to browse through available packages of predefined and user-defined actions in the classpath and select one to populate the class name field. 

The user would still need to know what properties to populate for the action, but at least we can tell them what's available so they can look it up in the documentation and configure the properties accordingly. 

> Population of Action Class
> --------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBIDE-2023
>                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBIDE-2023
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: esb
>    Affects Versions: 3.1.0.M4
>         Environment: Mac OS X, nightly 04/04 JBoss Tools build, Europa JEE eclipse build
>            Reporter: Tom Cunningham
>            Assignee: Viacheslav Kabanovich
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: 3.1.0.CR1
>
>
> It would be nice if the ESB editor could somehow populate an action class drop down or do autocompletion of the class name, while at the same time retaining the ability for the user to type in their action class name.       Action classes in the drop down should probably be restricted to classes within project which extend AbstractActionLifecycle or AbstractActionPipelineProcessor and the org.jboss.soa.esb.actions package classes.

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