Modifying the workspace
In the course of performing its function, your plug-in may need to make changes to resources in the workspace.
The workspace is an important data model for many plug-ins in the system, many of which rely on keeping up with
the current state of the workspace. Plug-ins may even be concurrently updating the workspace. It's important
for your plug-in to act as a responsible workspace citizen when making changes to resources. What makes a plug-in
a good workspace citizen?
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Batching of changes where possible to avoid flooding the system with unnecessary events or triggering
unnecessary processing on an interim state.
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Listening to resource change events and updating models as the workspace changes.
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Fine-grained locking of the workspace when making modifications instead of locking the entire workspace.
The next few sections look at these concepts in more detail.
