Bug 346928

Summary:	Unable to refresh external classfolder
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Andrew Eisenberg <andrew.eisenberg>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Jay Arthanareeswaran <jarthana>
Status:	VERIFIED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	satyam.kandula, srikanth_sankaran
Version:	3.6.2
Target Milestone:	3.7 M4
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
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Description Andrew Eisenberg

2011-05-24 00:27:29 EDT

I cannot refresh a text file in an external class folder when its contents changes.  Here's how to reproduce:

1. create a java project
2. in a directory outside the workspace, create a text file with some content
3. add this diectory as an external class folder to the classpath of the java project
4. open the text file in a text editor
5. outside of the workspace, make a change to the text file.
6. close and reopen the text editor in the workspace
7. "Resource is out of sync with the file system: '/.org.eclipse.jdt.core.external.folders/.link2/foo.txt'"
8. Right click on Project -> Refresh

I would expect that Step 8 would actually refresh the text file that was changed, but it does not.  The only way that I can find to refresh the text file in the class folder is by removing the classpath entry and then re-adding it.

Is there something much simpler that I am missing?

Comment 1 Srikanth Sankaran

2011-05-24 00:33:49 EDT

Jay, please follow up - re-route as needed, Thanks.

Comment 2 Jay Arthanareeswaran

2011-05-24 01:44:08 EDT

This isn't reproducible in 3.7. I believe this has been fixed as part of the
fix to bug 305172.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 305172 ***

Comment 3 Jay Arthanareeswaran

2011-05-24 01:46:39 EDT

(In reply to comment #2)
> This isn't reproducible in 3.7. I believe this has been fixed as part of the
> fix to bug 305172.

I used the build I20110521-0800 to verify, by the way.

Comment 4 Satyam Kandula

2011-05-24 04:09:15 EDT

Verified that this works from both package explorer and project explorer. 
Verified for 3.7 RC3 using build I20110521-0800.

Comment 5 Andrew Eisenberg

2011-05-24 11:23:08 EDT

Thanks.  Good news.  I hadn't tried it on 3.7.