> Hello. > My name is Marcelo Taube. Hello Marcelo,
> One of the most important requirements for my users is completion according > to our needs. The problems comes from two fronts > 1) In our python installation we have modules which were wrote by us in the > C language, we would like our users to get proper completion proposals. > Logically this wont work in the initial installation because pydev has not > python code to parse. > 2) Sometimes we would like our users to have completion on function return > values and even concatenations like in " foo(3,4).bar([3,4],5).doit(). ". > > If I am right the first problem might be solvable by just configuring the > builtin completion in pydev (right?). The second problem is not problem with > most of python code since i saw that pydev has good code analysis. However > both together are a problem since I don't think pydev is able to check the > return type of function written in C. You're right: - You can configure the forced builtins to do what you want by spawning a shell and dynamically analyzing your dlls ( http://fabioz.com/pydev/manual_101_interpreter.html ) - pydev has no way of getting return types of c-functions (that's not available in the shell code-completion introspection -- right now, sometimes pydev is able to get the arguments by analyzing the docstrings from those dlls, but that's also not always available) > If there is a current solution to this i want to know. But in any case i > would like to be able to add my own completions in order to be able to fix > problems if they appear. > > I think there might be two approaches, one is being able to connect to the > logical engine of pydev and suppling extra information like the return type > of some functions. The other approach would be to supply textual completions > by a separate engine. > > I have not discarded the first approach but it seems to be easier to > implement the second one since i noticed that you have an extension point in > pydev to add completions participants, so i started investigating that > option. There are plans to add a way to the engine so that you can provide a file with the completions -- right now you could probably generate python stubs for the c code you have and add those as a .zip to the pythonpath -- but creating a plugin to add more completions would surely work too. > I have studyed a little the code of pydev as a way of learning. since i have > not found material about the desing of your completion and how to extend it. > I readed the classes PyCodeCompletion, PythonCompletionProcessor, > CompletionState, CompletionRequest and most important > IPyDevCompletionParticipant. > Please correct me if i am not learning in the proper way. Reading the code/asking in the list is really the best way of doing it. > I also wrote a kind of example completion participant to add some dumb > completion. > My example would always return a token for the completion 'abcdef', not > depending in the activation token. It seems that pydev correctly filters out > the completion if the activation token is not a prefix of the proposal. > Anyway, the example worked, but now I found an extra problem. PyDev would > only allow me to add completion proposals to global variables but would not > allow me to give proposals which include dots. If i return the proposal > 'abcdef.ghi' and the user writes 'abcedf.' + Ctrl +Space my proposal does > not appear. > After some debugging i noticed my code is never called and after reading > what is happening in PyCodeCompletion i realized that there two distinct > cases, one for global variables and one for tokens. It seems that in the > second case contributors are never called. Is that a bug? It's more like a feature-request (as you can see in IPyDevCompletionParticipant, it specifically names the methods for globals and arguments) -- also, when getting things from a token, you usually need to know more things, such as what that token actually represents, so, the code-completion for clients there would need good use-cases to know what would be needed for a client to properly do a code-completion there. > Thank you for your time and your answers, i hope you can help me and also > that i will be able to contribute back for this help. ;-) Cheers, Fabio ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge conference! Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two days of sessions, one day of unconference: $250. Need another reason to go? 24-hour hacker lounge. Register today! http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;215844324;13503038;v?http://opensourcebridge.org _______________________________________________ pydev-code mailing list pydev-code@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pydev-code
