[jdt-dev] Retrieve javadoc programmatically

[Christian Pontesegger <christian.pontesegger@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

for the EASE project I would like to provide documentation for code 
completion proposals. There we allow users to use native java classes 
from the JDK and eclipse plugins.
To display javadoc contents I would like to reuse the additional 
proposals provided from JDT for classes and methods.
I was able to script my way through JDT and get the help for the 
java.io.File in the following - scripted - way:


project = new org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.JavaProject(getProject("Java 
1"), null)

sig = new java.lang.String("Ljava.io.File;").toCharArray();
proposal = org.eclipse.jdt.core.CompletionProposal.create(9, 0)
proposal.setSignature(sig)

info = new 
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.java.TypeProposalInfo(project, proposal)
info.getInfo(null)


The getinfo() call returns the requested string content. My only problem 
here is that I always need an existing Java project in the workspace to 
derive that information from.
Is it possible to get rid of the local IProject reference into the 
workspace?


thanks
Christian