[kepler-dev] supplementing "Get Documentation" functionality

[Matt Jones]

Hi,

I've been trying to override the current "GetDocumentation" menu item 
and associated GetDocumentationAction in Kepler with a new version in 
order to supplement it.  This new version would, like the old, get 
static html files for the classes, but it would also know how to get 
dynamically generated documentation for some of our customized actors 
(like DataSources).  In order to replace this function, I've created a 
new "DataSourceInstanceController" class that extends 
ActonInstanceController and a related 
"DataSourceInstanceControllerFactory" class.  I've discovered, however, 
that the use of ActorInstanceController seems to be hard-coded into the 
method ActorEditorGraphController._createControllers().  A couple of 
questions:

1) How can I override this to use my DataSourceInstanceController 
instead?  Is it configurable?
2) How can I make DataSourceInstance Controller extend 
ActorInstanceController and override the GetDocumentationAction inner 
class that is defined up the class hierarchy in NamedObjController? 
Right now when I override it manually I get two menu items, because the 
AttributeController constructor is still being called (via super()).

Thanks for the help,

Matt
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