Description Martin Probst 2006-11-16 08:35:30 EST

This is related to bug #124529.

Creating a link to an element in an external file system doesn't work. 

Steps: 
* implement a non-"file:" file system
* run a workbench with the file system plugin installed
* create a new file, choose to link it to a file in the file system (via Advanced)
* enter a URL matching your own file system scheme (e.g. ftp://...)
* select your own file system from the dropdown
* click finish

Expected:
* the new file is an alias to a file in the selected file system
Happens:
* a defunct link is added

Investigation:
WizardNewFileCreationPage has a method called createLinkTarget(), which uses URIUtil.toURI(String) to create the link target path. That is wrong for non-file: scheme files as it transforms URIs to nonsense (e.g. ftp://foo/bar gets something like "/ftp:/foo/bar"). So this will only ever work with the file: file system.

URIUtil should probably only be used if the user entered a direct path to a file, as opposed to a URI.