Description Henrik Lindberg 2010-10-06 20:31:43 EDT

Created attachment 180380 [details]
Hacked version of XtextContentOutlinePage

When performing a save as - and the editor gets a new editor input, the outline page will continue to listen to a model that is no longer maintained.

I first tried deriving a class that exposed the "refresh" method via an "externalRefresh", but this was not enough as the outline page held on to a registered modelListener, and this also needed to be reset (a new listener must be registred). The work around turned out to be a quite ugly hack because I did not know if it was possible to also replace the toolbar configurer (with other possible consequences).

I attached the modified class with an externalRefresh method that simply nulls the modelListener. It seems like a change of editor input should lead to unregistration of the current listener, but I did not know how to do that without holding on to the xtextDocument (which may be a really bad idea).

The externalRefresh simply does this:
	/**
	 * THIS METHOD IS THE ONLY REAL ADDITION TO THE COPIED/HACKED CLASS
	 * Special method that should be called from performSavedAs
	 */
	public void externalRefresh() {
		// Must drop old listener (should ideally get rid of the listener, but since the document changed already (??)
		// it will probably not unregister for the correct document.
		modelListener = null;
		// Install a model listener for the current document
		installModelListener();
		refresh();
	}