loadProject needs restart to work ?

[Lilipi]

Hi,

I'm using the method

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ro.sync.exml.workspace.api.standalone.project.ProjectController#loadProject

in order to update some profiling attributes automatically.
In order to do that, I update the existing project file programmatically. When calling

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loadProject

, nothing appends on UI (no confirm dialog or something) which is OK.

But if I go after that in my preferences, profiling attributes aren't updated :

profiling-attr-1.png

If I restart my Oxygen editor, and then go back to my preferences without doing something, profiling attributes seems to be OK :

profiling-attr-2.png

Is there any way to do that without restarting Oxygen ?

Regards

[adrian_sorop]

Hi!
No, this API does not need Oxygen restart to work.
I've tested on my side (with Oxygen 24.0) and the

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ro.sync.exml.workspace.api.standalone.project.ProjectController.loadProject(File)

work as expected.
All settings were loaded without restarting Oxygen.

A "blind" advice would be to try loading the project on AWT: use

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javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(Runnable)

Give it a try and let me know if this was usefull.
If this doesn't work, please give us more infomation: Oxygen version, how the API is used (a small code snippet), where is the new project located (on a local drive, on a web drive) and other information that you might consider important.

Best regards,
Adrian S.

[Lilipi]

Hi,

Thanks for your answer.
I've updated a little bit my code and still doesn't have the expected result.

I think I'm not using correctly the loadProject function.
Here is a piece of code, perhaps you could help me ?

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 PluginWorkspaceProvider.getPluginWorkspace().open(existingProjectFile.toURI().toURL()); //open updated file with profiling attributes
 final StandalonePluginWorkspace standalonePluginWorkspace = (StandalonePluginWorkspace) PluginWorkspaceProvider.getPluginWorkspace();
 standalonePluginWorkspace.getProjectManager().loadProject(existingProjectFile); //trying to load project file
 

Some additional explanations :
- Before doing this, I copy the file with my new profiling attributes in current project file (.xpr)
- 'existingProjectFile' is the current .xpr file.
Now I've got this result :
- Nothing is updated in my preferences but when I go to project view, it detects that the project file was updated (if I click on 'reload' then it's ok)

In my first atempt, I was not calling 'open' function. I don't know if this is required or not.

Any help would be appreciated

[adrian_sorop]

All right,
Now I fully undestand what and how you want to do.
I've tested and reproduced the problem.
The options are not recognized becaused Oxygen doesn't "undestand" that you use the loadProject() API like a refresh.
The Project Controller uses the a File Change Watcher and the file change watcher decides when the data should be read from disk and when is read from memeory. Because you bypass the file change watcher, the options used are the one cached (from memory).
I'll log an issue to treat this use-case.
Meanwhile, the first workaround I can think of is to load a dummy project.
After the dummy project is loaded, load again the original project.
This way, Oxygen will be forced to read the "real" options from disk, not the cached ones.
The downside for this issue is that you might see a flicker when the project switching occurs

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StandalonePluginWorkspace pluginWorkspace = (StandalonePluginWorkspace) PluginWorkspaceProvider.getPluginWorkspace();
            ProjectController projectController = pluginWorkspace.getProjectManager();
            File theRealProjectFile = new File(projectController.getCurrentProjectURL().toURI());
            
            // do here the changes you need
                        
            // load a dummy project 
            projectController.loadProject(new File("file/path/to/a/dummy/project.xpr"));
            // load the real project, this time the values will be read from disk, not from memory
            projectController.loadProject(theRealProjectFile);    

Let me know if this works out for you,
Adrian S