Eclipse plugin: about the function --println(String) in org.eclipse.ui.console.MessageConsoleStream - eclipse-plugin

Question

Recently I am doing a eclipse plugin project with eclipse_RCP. But I encountered some issues with eclipse UI when I wanted to print a large number of messages in the console of plugin.
The messages are from a complex process which could be considered as a factory producing messages all the time and never stop (until the client stop the process of course).
When I printed the message before (the message is short), I just needed to call the function -org.eclipse.ui.console.MessageConsoleStream.println().
BUT this time ,when I tried like before at first , the runtime-EclipseApplication (launch the debug mode) stopped responding and then tell me out of memory.
It seems like that the eclipse will read all the messages in the memory and THEN print them to the console one time .So when the number of message is large ,it will out of memory.
My issue is what can I do if I want to print the message line by line in the console ?
My description may be not accurate. Below is the java code:
public void print(Process p) {
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()),1024);
String line = "";
try {
while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
//it is correct when print in the main console
System.out.println(line);
//when print in plugin console .it is out of memory
//this is the function
//org.eclipse.ui.console.MessageConsoleStream.println()
println(line);
}
in.close();
this.flush();
this.close();
p.destroy();
}
catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
Then I try to write to a file at first and let the MessageConsoleStream read from the file every 1000 messages,but it looks like the same .
public void print(Process p) {
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()),1024);
String line = "";
char []tem = new char[1024];
int i = 0 ;
try {
File temp = File.createTempFile("temp", ".tep",new File("E:/"));
FileWriter out = new FileWriter(temp);
MessageConsoleStream mcs = null;
while((line = in.readLine())!=null){
if(i<=1000){
System.out.println(line);
out.write(line+"\n", 0, line.length()+1);
i++;
}
else{
i=0 ;
out.flush();
out.close();
FileReader fr=new FileReader(temp);
mcs = CConsole.getMessageStream("consoleName", "file name");
while( fr.read(tem, 0, 1024)!=-1){
mcs.print(String.valueOf(tem));
}
mcs.flush();
mcs.close();
fr.close();
out = new FileWriter(temp,false);
}
}
if(i!= 0){
mcs = CConsole.getMessageStream("consoleName", "file name");
out.flush();
out.close();
FileReader fr=new FileReader(temp);
while( fr.read(tem, 0, 1024)!=-1){
mcs.print(String.valueOf(tem));
}
mcs.flush();
mcs.close();
}
in.close();
p.destroy();
}
catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
All the ways above will make the eclipse out of memory when the number of messages more than 600,000 (then I stop the process ,otherwise it will out of memory).
It looks like the ecplipse wants to print all of them one time but not line by line.So it reads and reads again until out of memory.
BTW,I find a note in the org.eclipse.ui.console.MessageConsoleMessage.java——
Clients should avoid writing large amounts of output to this stream
in the UI thread. The console needs to process the output in the UI
thread and if the client hogs the UI thread writing output to the
console, the console will not be able to process the output.
That is not the real reason ,isn't it ?
I also notice that both the cdt and jdt are ok when printing a large number of message .How did they do ?
THANKS！

Answer 1

You have to use the flush() method every so often to write the MessageConsoleStream out to the console.
The flush() method is part of the IOConsoleOutputStream class, in the org.eclipse.ui.console package. The flush() method is not well documented, so I can see how you might have missed it.