Pool dictionaries should be available, preferably displayed in the class creation template

[ericwinger]

Jadeite issue GemTalk/Jadeite#964 says:

the pool dictionaries are not displayed in the jadeite project browser. This is wrong.

To clarify, the request is to show Pool Dictionaries in the class creation template in the project browser.

Jadeite gets the class creation template from Rowan but Rowan specifically does not include pool dictionaries in the template:

RwPrjBrowswerToolV2>>classCreationTemplateForClass:hybridBrowser:
<snip>
result addLast: $).
	result
		addAll: lfsp;
		addAll: 'poolDictionaries: '.
	result addAll: '#()'.	"ignored for now"
...

[dalehenrich]

Pool dictionary support in Rowan will require base image changes, since currently there is no way to declare a pool dictionary.. a requirement for Rowan support … the Pharo/Squeak community has supported a declarative model based on SharedPools which could be adopted by GemStone

[ericwinger]

I think the request for now is just that Jadeite display the pools read only (somehow). Perhaps an alternate api could be provided by Rowan so that Jadeite could provide some sort of read-only display.

[dalehenrich]

Classes with Pools cannot be created in Rowan, so there can't be packaged version of a class with pools ... an unpackaged class, can be created:

UserGlobals at: #'XXX_POOL' put: SymbolDictionary new.
Object
	subclass: 'XXX'
instVarNames: #()
classVars: #()
classInstVars: #()
poolDictionaries: { XXX_POOL }
inDictionary: Globals

so in this case there is an argument for showing the pool dictionary (and currently the pool names are ignored for all class definitions).

Would that work for you?

[dalehenrich]

This image is an unpackaged class, so the answer looks like yes...

[ericwinger]

Looks promising. Will defer to @LisaAlmarode about what works for unpackaged classes.

[dalehenrich]

Feature request 50838, submitted for consideration in 3.7.1