Bug 560363 - "Java Source Attachment" + "Path within archive"
Summary: "Java Source Attachment" + "Path within archive"
Status: NEW
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Product: JDT
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Core (show other bugs)
Version: 4.15   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 10
: P3 enhancement (vote)
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Assignee: JDT-Core-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2020-02-20 14:17 EST by Andrew Thomas CLA
Modified: 2020-02-20 14:17 EST (History)
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Description Andrew Thomas CLA 2020-02-20 14:17:11 EST 
In the properties for a referenced library, for "Javadoc Location," I can specify both an archive path *and* a "Path within archive". This allows me to specify a subfolder in a zip.

But for "Java Source Attachment," I can specify only a path. 

This can be troublesome when there are multiple source trees in one zip.

For example, I have one github project with multiple jars, whose source zip contains a separate subtree for each jar, each at a different path within the archive. I'm checking this into local source control as the single, original zip.

What I'm currently doing is unzipping the source locally, linking to unzipped source, and communicating to other engineers that they each need to do the same to see the source in the IDE.

What I'd like to do instead is link the jars to the source code at a path within the archive -- like we can do with Javadoc -- and have it just work for other engineers.