Introduction
This document lists changes made to the Editor Hints SPI.
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.
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
Sep 11 '21; API spec. version: 1.57; affected top-level classes: FileHintPreferences; made by: jlahoda
Added FileHintPreferences.openFilePreferences that opens hints settings.
Jul 24 '17; API spec. version: 1.43.0; made by: mromashova; issues:
#271069
For custom type of annotations will dynamically register this annotation type as fixable, so Fix action (click on the icon) will work for it
Jul 17 '17; API spec. version: 1.42.0; made by: mromashova; issues:
#271070
Added support for multiple ranges for error/warning. New field added to ErrorDescription as well as corresponding getter method and new constructor
in order to be able to provide multiple ranges support for highlight particular hint. Added new factory method to
ErrorDescriptionFactory which uses new ErrorDescription constructor.
Aug 26 '15; API spec. version: 1.38.0; made by: danilasergeyev; issues:
#254375
Added customType field to ErrorDescription as well as corresponding getter method and new constructor
in order to be able to provide custom annotation type for particular hint. Added new factory method to
ErrorDescriptionFactory which uses new ErrorDescription constructor.
Apr 24 '13; API spec. version: 1.31; affected top-level classes: FileHintPreferences; made by: jlahoda; issues:
#212326
XXX
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.
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.
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.
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.