I opened https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=548970
On Wednesday, July 3, 2019, Mickael Istria <mist...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > With JDT content assist, I'm facing a recurring issue of Eclipse Platform: > trying to move some computations out of the UI Thread. However, that first > requires a decent way to know whether a (3rd party) piece of code we want > to execute can run in a non-UI thread. > Of course, I'm not talking about statically analyzing code to detect > whether it can work or not in non-UI Thread, but more of finding a way for > extenders to declare that their code/extension is able to run in > non-UI-Thread. > In bug 538360, I made an initial proposal of looking for this info in the > extension metadata. However, I think it's too restricted and not well > placed as the essence of whether UI Thread is required or not doesn't lie > in the extension but in the code itself. So I've put in > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=538630#c5 some more > possible approaches to declare that. > I would like to get feedback about those approaches. As I think it's the > first time we try to make a legacy extension point more > non-UI-Thread-friendly, it would make a precendent so I'd rather us chosing > carefully which is the best way after a sane discussion. Or maybe there is > already a precendent I'm not aware of and already some recommendation on > that matter? > > Thanks in advance for your insights! > > -- > Mickael Istria > Eclipse IDE <https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/eclipse-packages/> > developer, for Red Hat Developers <https://developers.redhat.com/> > -- Mickael Istria Eclipse IDE <https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/eclipse-packages/> developer, for Red Hat Developers <https://developers.redhat.com/>
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