Implement postWindowClose() in RCP application

Question

Hi RCP developers,

I want to iplement postWindowClose() in my ECLIPSE RCP application.

Before coding this method, I just did a small test to see if when I close my application, the method is called, so I did that :

import org.eclipse.ui.application.IWorkbenchWindowConfigurer;
import org.eclipse.ui.application.WorkbenchWindowAdvisor;


public class MainWindowControl extends WorkbenchWindowAdvisor{

    public MainWindowControl(IWorkbenchWindowConfigurer configurer) {
        super(configurer);
        // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
    }

    @Override
    public void postWindowClose() {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        super.postWindowClose();
        System.out.println("close");
    }

}

I am expecting to see : close in ECLIPSE console, but it's still blank after closing the application.

All the required plugins are added , and I have no error while launching or closing the application.

So, AM I missing something ?

The reasons why to implemets this method are :

1. Msg box : Are you sure you want to close the application
2. Kill all the running threads, my application upload files and even when I close the application running uploads continues. I want to abort them when closing the application.

Edit :

My life cycle class :

package upload.center.util;

import org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.lifecycle.PostContextCreate;
import org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.lifecycle.PreSave;

public class WindowLifeCycle {

 @PostContextCreate
 public void postContextCreate()
  {
    // TODO start up code here
     System.out.println("open");
  }

@PreSave
  public void preSave()
  {
     // TODO add shutdown code here
    System.out.println("close");
  }
}

My plugin.xml :

<product ....
<property
           name="windowLifeCycle"
           value="bundleclass://UploadCenter.Source/upload.center.util.WindowLifeCycle">
     </property>
 ...</product>

I hope that I am clear enough.

Ismail

Answer 1

For a pure Eclipse 4 (e4) application the workbench window advisor (and the other advisors) are not used. You use the @PreSave method of a life cycle class to run code during shutdown.

public class LifeCycle
{
  @PostContextCreate
  public void postContextCreate()
  {
    // TODO start up code here
  }

  @PreSave
  public void preSave()
  {
     // TODO add shutdown code here
  }
}

declare the life cycle class in the product definition in the plugin.xml:

<extension
     id="product"
     point="org.eclipse.core.runtime.products">
  <product
        name="%product.name"
        application="org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.swt.E4Application">
      <property
           name="lifeCycleURI"
           value="bundleclass://plugin-id/package.LifeCycle">
     </property>
     .... more properties ...

For more details see here