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Bug 205798

Summary:	API to retrieve a specific action by ID
Product:	platform	Reporter:	Jesse Glick <jglick>
Component:	Actions	Assignee:	Jesse Glick <jglick>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	apireviews
Priority:	P3	Keywords:	API, API_REVIEW_FAST
Version:	7.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:	169338, 207003
Bug Blocks:	183794
Attachments:	Proposed patch

Description Jesse Glick 2011-12-01 17:58:44 UTC

Given a known

@ActionID(category=Constants.CATEGORY, id=Constants.ID) ...

it is often useful to load that Action for some sort of programmatic presentation. Currently you need to do

FileUtil.getConfigObject("Actions/" + Constants.CATEGORY + "/" + Constants.ID.replace('.', '-') + ".instance", Action.class)

which is awkward. This should rather be a utility method in Actions.

Comment 1 Jesse Glick 2011-12-28 23:36:40 UTC

Created attachment 114514 [details]
Proposed patch

Comment 2 Jesse Glick 2011-12-28 23:37:25 UTC

Please review.

Comment 3 Jesse Glick 2012-01-06 16:18:31 UTC

Employed the new method in a bunch more places. Also changed it to throw IAE when the corresponding @ActionID would have been rejected during compilation, to defend against likely mistakes such as using '-' as a package separator. core-main #f5e9614e5a7d

Comment 4 Quality Engineering 2012-01-07 16:21:45 UTC

Integrated into 'main-golden'
Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/f5e9614e5a7d
User: Jesse Glick <jglick@netbeans.org>
Log: #205798: API to retrieve a specific action by ID.