Question

I’m developing an android subsystem with multiple android applications, using Eclipse. When I make code changes I often need to reinstall the applications by clicking on each of the individual run configurations. This is time consuming. Is there a way of grouping the run configurations to automatically execute them with a single click?

Answer 1

Turns out its not terribly hard to write a simple command plugin using Eclipse SDK to get and execute a list of launch configurations. I was able to do so starting with the “Hello World” plugin tutorial, which creates a command button on the tool bar, then added dependencies to ResourcesPlugin and DebugPlugin, and the following code to SimplerHandler.java. When the button is clicked this code executes all launch configurations and puts up a little window with info. With a little refinement, the plugin could be made to run a hard-coded set of configurations. I’m guessing its possible to get a handle to the launch favorites and just run those.

public Object execute(ExecutionEvent event) throws ExecutionException
{
    StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();

    // Get root of workspace
    IWorkspaceRoot wsRoot = ResourcesPlugin.getWorkspace().getRoot();

    // Get projects
    IProject[] projects = wsRoot.getProjects();
    sb.append("projects: " + projects.length);

    // Get launch manager and launch configurations
    ILaunchManager launchMgr = DebugPlugin.getDefault().getLaunchManager();
    ILaunchConfiguration launchConfigs[] = null;
    try
    {
        launchConfigs = launchMgr.getLaunchConfigurations();
    }
    catch (CoreException e)
    {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    sb.append(" launch configs:" + launchConfigs.length);

    for (int i = 0; i < launchConfigs.length; i++)
    {
        ILaunchConfiguration config = launchConfigs[i];
        String name = config.getName();
        sb.append("\nlaunching " + name + "...");
        try
        {
            config.launch("debug", null, false);
        }
        catch (CoreException e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    // Print out the info...
    IWorkbenchWindow window = HandlerUtil.getActiveWorkbenchWindowChecked(event);
    MessageDialog.openInformation(
            window.getShell(),
            "Ag-eclipse-runner",
            sb.toString());

    return null;
}