Bug 23341

Summary:	Allow text search participants (was: Text search inside zips/jars/etc)
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Jed Anderson <jed.anderson>
Component:	Search	Assignee:	Platform-Search-Inbox <platform-search-inbox>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	analogue, chris.d.turk, chris, daniel_megert, deepakazad, douglas.pollock, john.arthorne, markus.kell.r
Version:	2.0	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:	23265
Bug Blocks:	247503, 199994

Description Jed Anderson

2002-09-09 14:59:03 EDT

It would make the text search much more useful if it had the ability to search inside of 
zips/jars/other container files.

I often import all of the eclipse plugins into my 
workspace in binary form, and then convert just the plugins I need to work on to source form.  When I 
go to search I get fewer (or no) results because all of the source is in zips.

Comment 1 Erich Gamma

2003-02-18 19:49:00 EST

not for 2.1

Comment 2 Douglas Pollock

2003-10-23 11:04:45 EDT

*** Bug 45440 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Dani Megert

2004-03-15 04:59:56 EST

*** Bug 54727 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Markus Keller

2006-06-23 11:35:08 EDT

Reopening to change assignment.

Comment 5 Markus Keller

2006-06-23 11:44:15 EDT

This would be a very interesting feature.

If it just searches in archive resources, this would force users to import plug-ins as binary. To even support searching in jars / source attachments on the classpath, the search plug-in would have to allow a text search contribution from the JDT plug-in.

But already search in archives in the workspace would be a big win.

Comment 6 Martin Aeschlimann

2006-06-23 12:06:19 EDT

It's not something search can do alone: We need a way to open zip file entries in editors, need to show them in the navigator and package explorer ect.
John has discussed some ideas of doing that with EFS. I don't know if there are still plans in core.resources.

Comment 7 John Arthorne

2006-06-23 14:57:25 EDT

There is a bug 23265 for full support for zips in the workspace.

Comment 8 Martin Aeschlimann

2006-06-24 03:19:34 EDT

setting to remind until resultion changes for bug 23265.

Comment 9 Martin Aeschlimann

2006-06-26 11:30:48 EDT

*** Bug 53966 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Dani Megert

2008-09-25 05:31:24 EDT

In order to search in JARs and attached sources the EFS support (bug 23265) won't be enough. Search will have to provide an extension point for search participants.

Comment 11 Chris Turk

2017-05-09 12:41:14 EDT

15 years later and there is still no solution to this problem...wow