Description Kelvin 2003-02-19 12:22:04 EST

I have a project required that all of my markers should have their own 
additional proposal information
to tell what the quickfix will do.

e.g  a marker requires a method to be "static", so the additional proposal 
information should look like
     ...
     public <b>static</b> void method() {
     ...
But currencly Eclipse cannot allow user to create our own additional proposal 
information for our markers. Instead it will display the marker description in 
the quickfix dialog 
when you click on the lightblub icon.

Code is in org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.correction.JavaCorrectionProcessor: 

 if (marker.isSubtypeOf(IJavaModelMarker.JAVA_MODEL_PROBLEM_MARKER)) {
     int problemId= marker.getAttribute(IJavaModelMarker.ID, -1);
     return problemId != -1 && hasCorrections(problemId);
 } else {
    IMarkerHelpRegistry registry
          = PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getMarkerHelpRegistry();
    return registry != null && registry.hasResolutions(marker);
 }

  only JAVA_MODEL_PROBLEM_MARKER can have its additional proposal information, 
other markers will use the default additional proposal information which is 
displaying the marker description 

org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.correction.MarkerResolutionProposal :
 public String getAdditionalProposalInfo() {
    try {
        String problemDesc= (String) fMarker.getAttribute(IMarker.MESSAGE);
        return CorrectionMessages.getFormattedString
("MarkerResolutionProposal.additionaldesc", problemDesc); //$NON-NLS-1$
    } catch (CoreException e) {
	 JavaPlugin.log(e);
    }
    return null;
 }

current IMarkerResolution only have a getLabel() method definition. I think it 
should also have a method to get the additional proposal information and a 
method to get the image out. Or another way to allow user to use their own 
additional proposal information in their markers.