Description Johan Compagner 2010-12-15 08:41:37 EST

If we look at the code:

public MarkerFieldFilterGroup(IConfigurationElement configurationElement,
			MarkerContentGenerator markerBuilder) {
		element = configurationElement;
		generator = markerBuilder;
		initializeWorkingSet();
		scope = processScope();

we see that we get initalizeWorkingSet()
which tells us:

/**
	 * Initialise the working set for the receiver. Use the window working set
	 * for the working set and set the scope to ON_WORKING_SET if they are to be
	 * used by default.
	 */
	private void initializeWorkingSet() {

		IWorkbenchWindow window = PlatformUI.getWorkbench()
				.getActiveWorkbenchWindow();
		if (window != null) {
			IWorkbenchPage page = window.getActivePage();
			if (page != null) {
				setWorkingSet(page.getAggregateWorkingSet());
				if ((PlatformUI.getPreferenceStore()
						.getBoolean(IWorkbenchPreferenceConstants.USE_WINDOW_WORKING_SET_BY_DEFAULT)))
					setScope(ON_WORKING_SET);

			}
		}
	}

So when the boolean is true it will set the scope to ON_WORKING_SET
what i find strange on this code is that i would expect one other check:

if ( windowWorkingSetIsSet && (PlatformUI.getPreferenceStore()
						.getBoolean(IWorkbenchPreferenceConstants.USE_WINDOW_WORKING_SET_BY_DEFAULT)))
					setScope(ON_WORKING_SET);

But thats another issue that i notice. But that private method just tests and sets the workingset and sets the scope.
But that setting of the scope is completely void because the next line in the constructor:

		initializeWorkingSet();
		scope = processScope();

is resetting the scope to what is configured or ANY if nothing can be found:

private int processScope() {

		if (element == null)
			return ON_ANY;

		String scopeValue = element.getAttribute(ATTRIBUTE_SCOPE);

		if (ATTRIBUTE_ON_SELECTED_ONLY.equals(scopeValue))
			return ON_SELECTED_ONLY;

		if (ATTRIBUTE_ON_SELECTED_AND_CHILDREN.equals(scopeValue))
			return ON_SELECTED_AND_CHILDREN;

		if (ATTRIBUTE_ON_ANY_IN_SAME_CONTAINER.equals(scopeValue))
			return ON_ANY_IN_SAME_CONTAINER;

		return ON_ANY;
	}

now the question is if the element is set and it as a scope configured should or should that not override the working set scope?
If we do want to always follow the configured one then i guess we could at least do:

private int processScope() {

		if (element == null)
			return scope;

		String scopeValue = element.getAttribute(ATTRIBUTE_SCOPE);

		if (ATTRIBUTE_ON_SELECTED_ONLY.equals(scopeValue))
			return ON_SELECTED_ONLY;

		if (ATTRIBUTE_ON_SELECTED_AND_CHILDREN.equals(scopeValue))
			return ON_SELECTED_AND_CHILDREN;

		if (ATTRIBUTE_ON_ANY_IN_SAME_CONTAINER.equals(scopeValue))
			return ON_ANY_IN_SAME_CONTAINER;

		return scope;
	}

so return the  scope which is already set.