Bug 23341 - Allow text search participants (was: Text search inside zips/jars/etc)
Summary: Allow text search participants (was: Text search inside zips/jars/etc)
Status: ASSIGNED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Search (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement with 7 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-Search-Inbox CLA
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Keywords: helpwanted
: 45440 53966 54727 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 23265
Blocks: 247503 199994
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Reported: 2002-09-09 14:59 EDT by Jed Anderson CLA
Modified: 2017-05-09 12:41 EDT (History)
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Description Jed Anderson CLA 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 CLA 2003-02-18 19:49:00 EST 
not for 2.1
Comment 2 Douglas Pollock CLA 2003-10-23 11:04:45 EDT 
*** Bug 45440 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Dani Megert CLA 2004-03-15 04:59:56 EST 
*** Bug 54727 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Markus Keller CLA 2006-06-23 11:35:08 EDT 
Reopening to change assignment.
Comment 5 Markus Keller CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 2006-06-23 14:57:25 EDT 
There is a bug 23265 for full support for zips in the workspace.
Comment 8 Martin Aeschlimann CLA 2006-06-24 03:19:34 EDT 
setting to remind until resultion changes for bug 23265.
Comment 9 Martin Aeschlimann CLA 2006-06-26 11:30:48 EDT 
*** Bug 53966 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Dani Megert CLA 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 CLA 2017-05-09 12:41:14 EDT 
15 years later and there is still no solution to this problem...wow