Limiting visibility of a command in a plugin using visibleWhen in plugin.xml.

Question

I am developing a plugin which its command will be displayed only at certain packages which are under a specific package foo.com.network.svc . I found visibleWhen keyword. But I could not use it very well. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Yes, after a series of trial and error efforts, I managed to limit visibility of the plugin which adds a command on right click at package explorer. Limit is to show command only in a package fragment under specific path. Below is some part of my plugin.xml that affects visibility.

<visibleWhen>

<iterate>enter <adapt type="org.eclipse.core.resources.IResource"> <test property="org.eclipse.core.resources.path" value="/foo/com/bar/svc/*"/> <not> <test property="org.eclipse.core.resources.path" value="/foo/com/bar/svc/*/*"/> </not> </adapt> </iterate> </visibleWhen>