Re: [ptp-dev] Question about performance tools framework in PTP

[Dave Wootton <dwootton@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Wyatt
I tried this tonight with PTP 2.1.1
installed on an Eclipse 3.4.1 installation and can't seem to make it work.
I have a simple plugin I'm experimenting with which implements a single
new view. That plugin loads successfully since I can see the new view.

I copied the extension point usage into
my plugin.xml file directly from the example on your wiki page

<extension point="org.eclipse.ptp.perf.workflows">
      <workflowDefinitionXML
            XMLFile="data/toolxml/tf.xml">
      </workflowDefinitionXML>
   </extension>

Then I created the data/toolxml/tf.xml
file as a new file in my plugin project and pasted the full contents from
the tf.xml example just below the extension point example into that file.

After that, I started a 2nd Eclipse
instance as Eclipse application and could see my plugin view. I opened
teh run configuration dialog and picked a parallel application run configuration
and a C run configuration. I expected to see a new tab in the launch configuration
dialog with the title Performance Analysis, but I don't see it. I don't
see any errors logged in the error log views or to the console views. I
do see the org.eclipse.ptp.perf plugin which I think implements your extension
point, in the list of plugins in the Help->About Eclipse SDK dialog
so I think I have teh right plugins loading.

I also tried using the PTP preferences
panel to select the path to the tf.xml file then open the launch configuration,
and still didn't see the new tab.

Am I doing something wrong?
Dave

Wyatt Spear <wspear@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The most through documentation available at the moment
can be found here:  http://wiki.eclipse.org/PTP/ETFw/PTP_External_Tools_Framework
There have been a few additions to the XML definition capabilities since
this was written and it doesn't cover the internal API as much as the external
XML tool definitions system.  It sounds like what you want will be
something like what we did for TAU integration, using your plugin to wrap
the components provided by the external tools.  I can pull together
some more information on that for you.

So far, most of our test cases have dealt with generating command line
arguments, so we don't have a complete general purpose environment variable
system in place.  However it shouldn't take long to get that up and
running.  Setting environment variables in the local eclipse launch
environment is fairly straightforward, but if a different method is needed
to send them to the remote system I can provide a 'getter' for environment
variables specified in the tool's UI.

-Wyatt

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Dave Wootton <dwootton@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Wyatt
I was hoping that if I chose this approach that it would cover CDT as
well. So that's good news. In order for this to be useful to me, I do need
to be able to add to the list of environment variables passed to the
remote process. Can you give me a reference to current documentation on
how to use this? I will look at the IProgessMonitor. I just need to find
time to do it.
Dave



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Greetings Dave,

The ExternalTools provide a distinct launch configuration system for both
the PTP and CDT.  Presently the system covers status with the standard
IProgressMonitor used to display job status in the UI.  It may be
possible
for you to hook in to that, but if not I can probably add a listener
hook.  I'll also need to take a look and make sure environment variable
control is up and running.  Please let me know if you have any questions
or if I can help out with anything.

-Wyatt

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Dave Wootton <dwootton@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Wyatt
I have a performance analysis tool that has an Eclipse plugin. I'd like
to
extend the Eclipse launch configuration dialog to add a new panel with
execution options specific to this tool. These options result in setting
environment variables that the tool recognizes. The tool itself runs as
a
remote process on a different node than the Eclipse node. Greg suggested
that your framework might be helpful for this.

I need to use this for parallel execution, where I'm thinking of this as
a
logical extension of the PTP launch configuration, as well as for serial
applications which would not use the PTP launch configuration and do not
run under control of any PTP resource manager. Does your tool framework
work only with PTP launch configurations, or would it work with the CDT
launch dialogs as well.

Also, does your framework provide any notifications of job start and
finish, such that a listener could register to be notified of those state
changes?

Thanks
Dave
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