I'm sure there are many ways of doing this, but I've used the JFace IPropertyChangeListener interface in the past for simple event propagation.
Make your view implement IPropertyChangeListener. Create a Singleton class that you can register your IPropertyChangeListener with, and send a PropertyChangeEvent to. Then in the constructor of your view, register it with your Singleton.
Now you can get hold of your Singleton in your editor and fire off an event that will get picked up in your view.
Example code for the Singleton:
public class PropertyChangeEventBus {
private static PropertyChangeEventBus s_instance = new PropertyChangeEventBus();
public static PropertyChangeEventBus instance()
{
return s_instance;
}
private Set<IPropertyChangeListener> m_listeners;
private PropertyChangeEventBus()
{
// use CopyOnWriteArraySet to prevent ConcurrentModificationExceptions
m_listeners = new CopyOnWriteArraySet<IPropertyChangeListener>();
}
public void addListener(IPropertyChangeListener listener)
{
m_listeners.add(listener);
}
public void removeListener(IPropertyChangeListener listener)
{
m_listeners.remove(listener);
}
public void fire(final PropertyChangeEvent event)
{
// run property change events in UI thread to prevent having to have lots of syncExecs in the listener methods
ViewUtils.syncExec(new Runnable()
{
@Override
public void run()
{
for (IPropertyChangeListener listener : m_listeners)
{
try
{
listener.propertyChange(event);
}
catch(Exception e)
{
//log it, present error message
}
}
}
});
}
}
Example Code for the View:
//The constructor
public MyView()
{
PropertyChangeEventBus.instance().addListener(this);
}
@Override
public void propertyChange(PropertyChangeEvent event)
{
if(event.getProperty().equals(SOME_CONSTANT))
{
// Refresh View
}
}