[yocto] [RFC Refactor[v2] 5/8] Add ConsoleHelper utility class

[Ioana Grigoropol]

- ConsoleHelper class is to be used in order to find a console by a specified name and display it in the view (using ConsoleRunnble) on the GUI thread

Signed-off-by: Ioana Grigoropol <ioanax.grigoropol at intel.com>
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 .../src/org/yocto/remote/utils/ConsoleHelper.java  |   38 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 plugins/org.yocto.remote.utils/src/org/yocto/remote/utils/ConsoleHelper.java

diff --git a/plugins/org.yocto.remote.utils/src/org/yocto/remote/utils/ConsoleHelper.java b/plugins/org.yocto.remote.utils/src/org/yocto/remote/utils/ConsoleHelper.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9c5c244
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/org.yocto.remote.utils/src/org/yocto/remote/utils/ConsoleHelper.java
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2013 Intel Corporation.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ * Ioana Grigoropol(Intel) - initial API and implementation
+ *******************************************************************************/
+package org.yocto.remote.utils;
+
+import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display;
+import org.eclipse.ui.console.ConsolePlugin;
+import org.eclipse.ui.console.IConsole;
+import org.eclipse.ui.console.IConsoleManager;
+import org.eclipse.ui.console.MessageConsole;
+
+public class ConsoleHelper {
+	public static final String YOCTO_CONSOLE = "Yocto Project Console";
+
+	public static MessageConsole findConsole(String name) {
+		ConsolePlugin plugin = ConsolePlugin.getDefault();
+		IConsoleManager conMan = plugin.getConsoleManager();
+		IConsole[] existing = conMan.getConsoles();
+		for (int i = 0; i < existing.length; i++)
+			if (name.equals(existing[i].getName()))
+				return (MessageConsole) existing[i];
+		// no console found, so create a new one
+		MessageConsole myConsole = new MessageConsole(name, null);
+		conMan.addConsoles(new IConsole[] { myConsole });
+		return myConsole;
+	}
+
+	public static void showConsole(MessageConsole console){
+		Display.getDefault().syncExec(new ConsoleRunnable(console));
+	}
+}
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