Slides from the EclipseCon Europe 2016 talk: Are you sick of seeing these progress bars stuck at 99% for a long time and then complete in a sec? Do you cry when you click on the cancel button of a task and it does not stop? Do you want to learn how to properly handle progress monitors and task cancelation requests in your Eclipse plugins/application? We will walk through the IProgressMonitor API and will learn how to use it properly. With several code samples and demos, you will understand how to handle progress monitoring and task cancelation requests in Eclipse plugins. You will also learn about new tools coming in the platform to help you to detect bad behaviors.

1. Copyright © 2016 Eclipse Foundation, Inc., Made available under the Eclipse Public License v1.0
What every Eclipse developer should know
about progress reporting and job cancelation
Mikael Barbero <mikael@eclipse.org>
Eclipse Foundation

2. http://xkcd.com/612/

3. Good news everyone
Hardly no slide :)

4. Responsibilities to users
Ability to cancel long
running tasks
Report progress of
long running tasks

5. ALREADY

6. What is a progress monitor?
Consumed ticks Remaining ticks
Allocated ticks

7. What is a progress monitor?
Past
aMethod(IProgressMonitor)
For you
for upcoming
tasks
a2ndMethod(IProgressMonitor)
a3rdMethod(IProgressMonitor)
a4thMethod(IProgressMonitor)

8. AGAIN

9. Tooling
Testing and Debugging

10. Testing and Debugging Tracing
https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_use_the_platform_debug_tracing_facility
New in
Neon

11. Testing and Debugging Monitoring Cancelability
Oxygen?

12. FOR THE
LAST TIME

13. What you should
remember
Easy, uh?

14. Want more? Using Progress Monitors
Stefan Xenos, Google
https://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Progress-Monitors/article.html

15. Code is available
https://github.com/mbarbero/ece2016-progressmonitors

16. Questions?

17. Thank you mikael@eclipse.org
@mikbarbero