Re: Re: project conversion questions

On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 08:23, Tomas Zezula wrote:
> The content of CookieSet or Lookup (which is now preferred) should be
> described in the documentation.

If it helps, not only NetBeans has this problem. I am now working with
Eclipse - and they put implement IAdaptable interface (a subset of
Lookup.Provider - no change notifications, or multiplicity) on a number
of classes. One never knows what are all options - and they vary
depending on what plugins are in the system. This, for example, is the
doc for IEditorInput.getAdapter() API method:
"Editor input must implement the IAdaptable interface; extensions are
managed by the platform's adapter manager."

:-(

The problem is that the range of adapters (cookies) cannot be documented
in doc of the class that contains getCookie() - it is not known for that
class (otherwise there should be getters, anyway), they are add-on
services.

Any idea how to organize documentation, so that you can find what
cookies are injected by various subsystems to a particular class' Lookup
?

-Svata