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Bug 341716

Summary:	Text Compare - No extension mechanism in TextMergeViewer to ignore case in DocLineComparator
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Tobias Melcher <tobias.melcher>
Component:	Compare	Assignee:	Platform-Compare-Inbox <platform-compare-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	jflicke
Version:	4.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Tobias Melcher

2011-04-03 06:36:40 EDT

Build Identifier: I20100608-0911

Hello colleagues,

we would like to use the eclipse compare framework to show diffs for ABAP sources. To reduce the amount of diffs, case for keywords should be ignored. Unfortunately, the TextMergeViewer class doesn't provide an extension mechanism or callback method to overload the compare detection logic. Method TextMergeViewer#doDiff delegates to DocumentMerger#doDiff and DocLineComparator instances are created for left,right and ancestor. We would like to use our own DocLineComparator implementation which is case insensitiv for keywords.

Would it be possible the extend the compare framework and provide either an extension point or a method which can be overloaded to realize our use case?

With best regards,
Tobias Melcher

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Lars Vogel

2019-11-27 07:17:37 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got
resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some
reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it.
The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you
still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is
(for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

If the bug is still relevant, please remove the stalebug whiteboard tag.