[#1668] API types to simplify work with launch configuration attributes

[ruspl-afed]

• identify launch attribute
• connect it with preference metadata (to supply defaults/label/description)
• read attribute from configuration
• write attribute to configuration working copy

[eclipse-platform-bot]

This pull request changes some projects for the first time in this development cycle.
Therefore the following files need a version increment:

debug/org.eclipse.debug.core/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

An additional commit containing all the necessary changes was pushed to the top of this PR's branch. To obtain these changes (for example if you want to push more changes) either fetch from your fork or apply the git patch.

Git patch

From 59da2990264a1f97068a1cc1c145badc3086d86f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eclipse Platform Bot <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 15:23:10 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Version bump(s) for 4.35 stream


diff --git a/debug/org.eclipse.debug.core/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF b/debug/org.eclipse.debug.core/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
index e797ed2fe6..cdd768c6fb 100644
--- a/debug/org.eclipse.debug.core/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
+++ b/debug/org.eclipse.debug.core/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Manifest-Version: 1.0
 Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2
 Bundle-Name: %pluginName
 Bundle-SymbolicName: org.eclipse.debug.core; singleton:=true
-Bundle-Version: 3.22.0.qualifier
+Bundle-Version: 3.22.100.qualifier
 Bundle-Activator: org.eclipse.debug.core.DebugPlugin
 Bundle-Vendor: %providerName
 Bundle-Localization: plugin
-- 
2.47.1

Further information are available in Common Build Issues - Missing version increments.

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Test Results

 1 668 files   -    87   1 668 suites   - 87   1h 14m 32s ⏱️ - 13m 37s
 3 573 tests  -   597   3 552 ✅  -   596   21 💤  - 1  0 ❌ ±0 
11 316 runs   - 1 791  11 157 ✅  - 1 786  159 💤  - 5  0 ❌ ±0 

Results for commit 02d2400. ± Comparison against base commit ca5ed8a.

This pull request removes 597 tests.

AllTests ApiDocTest ‑ testTopicsReference
AllTests LinkTest ‑ testAllLinks
AllTests TocLinkChecker ‑ testJdtIsvGenerated
AllTests TocLinkChecker ‑ testJdtIsvStatic
AllTests TocLinkChecker ‑ testJdtUser
AllTests TocLinkChecker ‑ testPdeUserGenerated
AllTests TocLinkChecker ‑ testPdeUserStatic
AllTests TocLinkChecker ‑ testPlatformIsvGenerated
AllTests TocLinkChecker ‑ testPlatformIsvStatic
AllTests TocLinkChecker ‑ testPlatformUser
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[mickaelistria]

As mentioned in the call, some example using this API proposal would be helpful. There is probably some content in org.eclipse.ui.externaltools/External Tools Base/org/eclipse/ui/externaltools/internal/launchConfigurations you can tweak to leverage this API.