ShowConsoleViewCommandHandler.java

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 * Copyright (c) 2013 Wind River Systems, Inc. and others. 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:
 * Wind River Systems - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.tcf.te.ui.handler;

import org.eclipse.core.commands.AbstractHandler;
import org.eclipse.core.commands.ExecutionEvent;
import org.eclipse.core.commands.ExecutionException;
import org.eclipse.ui.IWorkbenchPage;
import org.eclipse.ui.IWorkbenchWindow;
import org.eclipse.ui.PartInitException;
import org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI;
import org.eclipse.ui.handlers.HandlerUtil;

/**
 * Show console view command handler implementation.
 */
public class ShowConsoleViewCommandHandler extends AbstractHandler {

	/* (non-Javadoc)
	 * @see org.eclipse.core.commands.IHandler#execute(org.eclipse.core.commands.ExecutionEvent)
	 */
	@Override
	public Object execute(ExecutionEvent event) throws ExecutionException {
        // In Eclipse 4.x, the HandlerUtil.getActiveWorkbenchWindow(event) may return null
        IWorkbenchWindow window = HandlerUtil.getActiveWorkbenchWindow(event);
        if (window == null) window = PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow();
		if (window != null && window.getActivePage() != null) {
			IWorkbenchPage page = window.getActivePage();
			try {
				page.showView("org.eclipse.ui.console.ConsoleView", null, IWorkbenchPage.VIEW_VISIBLE); //$NON-NLS-1$
			} catch (PartInitException e) { /* Failure on part instantiation is ignored */ }
		}

		return null;
	}

}