Can XmlCompletionSession and CSharpCompletionSession be made public?

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Posted 12 years ago by Craig - Varigence, Inc.
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We're implementing custom C# and Xml CompletionProviders and would like to instanciate the CSharpCompletionSesison and XmlCompletionSession objects that Actipro uses. Unfortunately, our older copy of the blueprint source indicates that both classes are private.

While we could simply copy the classes into our projects, that means we'll lose any updates made to the classes in future versions. And even if we did have the current source, which we don't, that'd still be a bad maintenence practice. We could also workaround this using reflection but that'd also be a bad practice as we'd be relying on an implementation detail that could change. The XmlCompletionSession class is particularly important for us since it solves a problem we've been experiencing when inserting attributes via auto-complete. 

Thus, could XmlCompletionSession and CSharpCompletionSession be made public in an upcoming release, perferably the next one?

Thanks,

-Craig

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Posted 11 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Hi Craig,

How about if we made them protected so that only inheriting classes of the providers could see them?


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Posted 11 years ago by Craig - Varigence, Inc.
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Unfortunately, that doesn't help us. Because our custom language uses XML with embedded C#, we use a custom completion provider that controls the completion session for either language. Since we're not extending the XmlCompletionProvider, making XmlCompletionSession protected won't help us.

Would it be possible to make the classes public? That way, other developers doing custom work could leverage them too.

-Craig

Answer - Posted 11 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Hi Craig,

Yes we'll make them public for the next maintenance release.


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Posted 11 years ago by Craig - Varigence, Inc.
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That's great news - thanks again

Posted 11 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Hi Craig,

FYI, we're just going to remove CSharpCompletionSession and VBCompletionSession since they are empty classes.  We're using regular CompletionSession in their completion providers instead.

But the XmlCompletionSession will be public for the upcoming maintenance release.


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The latest build of this product (v24.1.1) was released 2 months ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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