Eclipse Tips

Clone this repo and put your provider in the providers.json file.

providers.json

The providers.json has the following structure

{
	"provider": [{
	    	"require-bundle": "org.eclipse.jdt.ui",
    		"version": "1.0.0",
    		"location": "org.eclipse.jdt.ui/provider.json"
	    },
    	{
    		"require-bundle": "org.eclipse.ui",
	    	"version": "1.0.0",
	    	"location": "org.eclipse.ui/provider.json"
    	}
	]
}

"require-bundle": "org.eclipse.ui"

This bundle must be available in the IDE before your provider can be active. It is also the name of the subdirectory where your provider.json file must exist

"version": "1.0.0"

The version of your provider. If you provide new tips then this version must be updated. The framework will only download new tips if the version has changed.

provider.json

This file contains your provider definition and your tips.

{
  "provider": {
    "image": "data:image/png;base64,i..ggg==",
    "description": "Photon new and noteworthy",
    "id": "org.eclipse.ui.tips",
    "expression": "<core expression>",
    "tips": [
      {
        "subject": "HTML Only Tip",
        "date": "2018-02-12",
        "html": "<valid html>"
      },
      {
        "subject": "HTML and Image",
        "date": "2018-01-21",
        "image": "data:image/png;base64,i...==",
        "ratio": 1.35,
        "maxHeight": 300,
        "actionId": "preferences",
        "html": "<h2>title</h2>The <b>DirectoryDialog</b> has.. etc.."
      },
      {
        "subject": "Eclipse Wiki Tip",
        "date": "2018-02-07",
        "maxWidth": 500,
        "url": "https://wiki.eclipse.org/Tip_of_the_Day/Eclipse_Tips/Json_Tip?action=render"
      }
      {
        "subject": "Twitter Tip",
        "date": "2018-02-07",
        "maxWidth": 500,
        "url": "https://twitter.com/EclipseJavaIDE/status/919915440041840641"
      }
    ]
  }
}