[pde-dev] Re: Obtaining a model of the runtime workspace from developmen

[Brian de Alwis <bsd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Having just returned to this problem, I stumbled across the solution:
most of the methods on IPluginModelBase will populate the model as
I wanted, specifically IPluginModelBase.getExtensions().  Nice!

Brian.

> I've been fetching the plugins using from
> PDECore.getDefault().getModelManager().getAllPlugins(), which
> returns instances of IPluginModelBase, and then examine the respective
> extensions (getExtensions()).  But these turn out to be `lightweight
> models': they don't contain any of the information from plugin.xml.
> And I haven't found how these can be populated.

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