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Build Identifier: M20110210-1200 Since the extension point org.eclipse.help.contentProducer allows help content, which is dynamic, generated at run time by an implementation of the interface IHelpContentProducer, it should be possible to use a query in a href. The query (a series of field-value pairs) can than be used to pass additional informations to the content producer. At the moment it seems that this only works partial and atleast not for provided IContentExtensions. For example I use my own class which extends AbstractContentExtensionProvider to contribute content extensions dynamicly and I want to create the content (determined by the return value of getContent() of my provided IContentExtensions which is treated as the path to the content) dynamicly to via a IHelpContentProducer. If I use a query part in the returned value (eg. /myPluginId/myContent.xhtml?field1=value1#elementId), the href which is passed to my content producer is messed up with to question marks (myContent.xhtml?field1=value1?lang=de_DE). Reproducible: Always
I agree that the query should be passed through to the content producer. Is use of a content producer in conjunction with a content extension provider the only case you know of that is causing problems?
In the case of a content extension via XML the same problem occures, if a query is used in the "content" attribute. If I use a query in the href for topics it works as expected, because in this case the addional query (?lang=de_DE) is not appended by the help plugins of the platform. I think the difference is, that the call to getInputStream(String bundle, String href, Locale locale) of my content producer comes (indirect) from the method getHelpContent of the class HelpProvider for content extensions whereas the class HelpProvider seems not to be involved for the content of topics. I don't know why the query part (?lang=de_DE) is appended to the href at all, because the informations of the locale are correctly passed to the content producer as the third parameter (eg. getInputStream( "myPluginId", "myContent.xhtml?field1=value1?lang=de_DE", de_DE )).
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