Automated Formal Static Analysis and Retrieval of Source Code - JKU

46CHAPTER 3. CODE SEARCH INTEGRATION FACILITY INTO MINDBREEZE ENTERPRISE SEARCH
Figure 3.7: CodeSearch Context Provider Classes
1. a unique category identifier and category display name;
2. the description of the metadata for each CodeSearch artifact;
3. a graphical icon representing the category in the user interface.
These requirements are solved by deploying on the server a category descriptor file and a
category icon file, respectively.
Moreover, we want that the results displayed to the end users to have context specific information.
For this purpose, we have to provide to the Query Service (again by deploying on the server)
an appropriate context provider implementation for the CodeSearch data source.
Deployment is done by the command line tool mesextension used for the infrastructure
configuration. In was created during the MES development and used installing or uninstalling
context or authorization provider plug-ins, category descriptors and category icons.
Usage: mesextension [OPTIONS] install|uninstall
3.2.3.1 Deploying the CodeSearch Category Descriptor, Category Icon and Context Provider
Deploying the CodeSearch Category Descriptor
A category descriptor is a XML file which contains the unique identifier, the display name and
descriptions for each artifact for the data source CodeSearch.
A fragment of the CodeSearch category descriptor (CodeSearchCategoryDescriptor.xml)
is listed: