I’ve a little question about custom DataTypes (like Mol2\Smiles) in KNIME.
Story:
I’ve written an own DataType and it actually works very fine. My Nodes can detect and accept and of cause progress them too.
Problem:
If I look at my Results where my DataType is visible, there is no Icon from my DataType and its not a Multiline Renderer like I wanted.
Even if i set a BreakPoint somewhere in my Factory Class, it seems that it never reach the code.
I’ve also copied the code from the Mol2 reader and modified it a bit to try if it works. But it seems that he is ignoring my factory class where i define the icon and the renderer.
Question:
Does someone know what I am doing wrong?
Hi imax, I guess I’m not able to tell the solution here but instead only ask (hopefully) good questions.
By “factory class” you mean the UtilityFactory that is associated with your new DataType?
Does your cell class implement the DataValue interface that you defined?
Does your cell class implement multiple DataValue interfaces?
If so, have you tried to right-click the column header in order to see the list of available renderers? (It’s not shown, if there is only one renderer)
Did you define the getPreferredValueClass() method if your cell class implements more than DataValue interface (see the class description of DataCell for details)?
Is the java package that contains the icon image exported by the plugin (in the plugin.xml, the tab “runtime” – it’s called “Exported packages” or so)?
I hope that at least one questions helps you to solve your problem. If not, can I have the source code to see what’s missing? Thanks Bernd
Thank you very much.
I forgot only one single line which fixed the problem.
In my TypeValue.java file, i forgot the following line:
public static final TestUtilityFactory UTILITY = new TestUtilityFactory();
It works now like a charm.
Thank you very much for your help!
