Introduction

This document lists changes made to the Editor Hints SPI.

Index of APIs

Editor Hints

Incompatible changes by date

Fuller descriptions of all changes can be found below (follow links).

Not all deprecations are listed here, assuming that the deprecated APIs continue to essentially work. For a full deprecation list, please consult the Javadoc.

All changes by date

(May 17 '12) Added a new overload for ErrorDescriptionFactory.createErrorDescription taking PositionBounds
(Mar 19 '12) Added id and details to ErrorDescriptionFactory.createErrorDescription
(Feb 24 '10) Added ErrorDescriptionFactory.attachSubfixes
(Jul 20 '09) Added PositionRefresher interface and Context

Changes by version

These API specification versions may be used to indicate that a module requires a certain API feature in order to function. For example, if you see here a feature you need which is labelled 1.20, your manifest should contain in its main attributes the line:

OpenIDE-Module-Module-Dependencies: org.netbeans.spi.editor.hints/0 > 1.20

(1.24) Added a new overload for ErrorDescriptionFactory.createErrorDescription taking PositionBounds
(1.22) Added id and details to ErrorDescriptionFactory.createErrorDescription
(1.13) Added ErrorDescriptionFactory.attachSubfixes
(1.8.1) Added PositionRefresher interface and Context

Changes by affected class

`org.netbeans.spi.editor.hints.Context`

(Jul 20 '09) Added PositionRefresher interface and Context

`org.netbeans.spi.editor.hints.ErrorDescriptionFactory`

(May 17 '12) Added a new overload for ErrorDescriptionFactory.createErrorDescription taking PositionBounds
(Mar 19 '12) Added id and details to ErrorDescriptionFactory.createErrorDescription
(Feb 24 '10) Added ErrorDescriptionFactory.attachSubfixes

`org.netbeans.spi.editor.hints.PositionRefresher`

(Jul 20 '09) Added PositionRefresher interface and Context

Details of all changes by API and date

Editor Hints

Added a new overload for ErrorDescriptionFactory.createErrorDescription taking PositionBounds

May 17 '12; API spec. version: 1.24; affected top-level classes: ErrorDescriptionFactory; made by: jlahoda; issues: #212326
Added several a new variant of ErrorDescriptionFactory.createErrorDescription taking PositionBounds to specify the span of the error/warning.

Added id and details to ErrorDescriptionFactory.createErrorDescription

Mar 19 '12; API spec. version: 1.22; affected top-level classes: ErrorDescriptionFactory; made by: jlahoda; issues: #209448
Added several new variants of ErrorDescriptionFactory.createErrorDescription. These new variants allow to specify an optional error/warning id and more details.

Added ErrorDescriptionFactory.attachSubfixes

Feb 24 '10; API spec. version: 1.13; affected top-level classes: ErrorDescriptionFactory; made by: jlahoda; issues: #180724
Added a new method ErrorDescriptionFactory.attachSubfixes that allows to attach sub-fixes to given fix.

Added PositionRefresher interface and Context

Jul 20 '09; API spec. version: 1.8.1; affected top-level classes: PositionRefresher Context; made by: msauer
Added new interface and context class in order to be able to provide up-to-date hints on current line.