Bug 21901

Summary: JavaCore.setClasspathContainer is not generic enough
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Frank Cornelissen <Frank.Cornelissen>
Component: CoreAssignee: Jerome Lanneluc <jerome_lanneluc>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: 2.1 M2   
Hardware: PC   
OS: All   
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Description Frank Cornelissen CLA 2002-07-25 09:17:15 EDT 
The above method seems to be the only way to propagate a change in the
resolution of container entries. 

However, it assumes that there is only *one* container entry per project. I want
to add several containers to a project, so i would have to call this method
several times, which can be very intensive (recompiling of the project etc)

Is there any other way to convince the javacore or a javaproject that the
contents of a container entry has changed?
Comment 1 Philipe Mulet CLA 2002-07-25 09:19:52 EDT 
No. It can change one container setting for multiple projects at once, but only 
one container.

What you would need is a new API allowing you to perform multiple changes at 
once. Note that down the road, we want to provide a way to perform a bunch of 
operation as one (batched operation). This might be good enough to achieve what 
you need.
Comment 2 Philipe Mulet CLA 2002-10-08 09:07:44 EDT 
Frank - now that you have the batching support (JavaCore.run
(IWorkspaceRunnable)), is it ok to close ?
Comment 3 Philipe Mulet CLA 2002-10-11 11:32:48 EDT 
Closing, please reopen if you have more insights.