Export Wizards

Identifier: org.eclipse.ui.exportWizards

Description: This extension point is used to register export wizard extensions. Export wizards appear as choices within the "Export Dialog", and are used to export resources from the workbench.

Wizards may optionally specify a description subelement whose body should contain short text about the wizard.

Configuration Markup:

   <!ELEMENT wizard (description? selection*)>
   <!ATTLIST wizard
      id     CDATA #REQUIRED
      name   CDATA #REQUIRED
      class CDATA #REQUIRED
      icon   CDATA #IMPLIED
   >
   <!ELEMENT description (#PCDATA)>

id - a unique name that will be used to identify this wizard.
name - a translatable name that will be used in the dialog box to represent this wizard.
class - a fully qualified name of the class that implements org.eclipse.ui.IExportWizard.
icon - a relative name of the icon that will be used alongside the wizard name in the export engine listing.
description - an optional subelement whose body represents a short description of the export engine functionality.

<!ELEMENT selection EMPTY>
   <!ATTLIST selection
      class CDATA #REQUIRED
      name   CDATA #OPTIONAL
   >

class - a fully qualified class name. If each object in the workbench selection implements this interface the selection will be passed to the wizard. Otherwise, an empty selection is passed.
name - an optional name filter. Each object in the workbench selection must match the name filter to be passed to the wizard.

Examples:

The following is an example of an export extension definition:

   <extension
       point="org.eclipse.ui.exportWizards">
      <wizard
         id="com.xyz.ExportWizard1"
         name="XYZ Web Exporter"
         class="com.xyz.exports.ExportWizard1"
         icon="./icons/import1.gif">
         <description>
            A simple engine that exports Web project
         </description>
         <selection class="org.eclipse.core.resources.IProject"/>
      </wizard>
   </extension>

API Information: The value of the class attribute must be a name of the class that implements org.eclipse.ui.IExportWizard.

Supplied Implementation: The workbench comes preloaded with basic export engines for files and directories.