Re: [pde-dev] PluginModelManager and self hosting

[Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Wassim,
thanks. I kind of suspected that that was the case. The drawback of 
using the runtime layer is that it will not give me the IPluginModelBase 
that I want (I'm generating a Buckminster component spec from the info 
found in it). I can probably write some code that does this from a 
BundleDescription as well but I'd be glad if I can avoid it. Any tips on 
how to get hold of a IPluginModelBase?

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren


Wassim Melhem wrote:
> In every workspace, the PDE world of plug-ins consists of:
> 1.  the plug-ins in that workspace, and
> 2.  the plug-ins in the target platform as specified on the Plug-in
> Development > Target Platform preference page of that workspace.
>
> Therefore, when you are a runtime workbench,  the plug-ins from your host
> workspace are neither part of #1 nor part of #2 of your runtime workbench.
> That is why you are not able to access them via PDE APIs.  Your target in
> the runtime workbench is NOT the plug-ins you launched with,
>
> If you want to inspect the running plug-ins in a runtime workbench, you
> could use the Platform#getBundle(...) etc.  APIs from the runtime layer.
>
> Wassim.
>
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> Hi,
> I'm using Eclipse 3.2.1 and the following piece of code to obtain the
> ModelEntry for a plugin in my target environment. Normally this works
> fine but in a self hosting scenario, it doesn't seem to find the bundles
> that origin from the workspace or the launching IDE.
>
>         PluginModelManager manager =
> PDECore.getDefault().getModelManager();
>         ModelEntry entry = manager.findEntry(componentName);
>
> My "Eclipse Application" launch configuration has the "Launch with all
> workspace and enabled plug-ins" checked and I have no errors in my
> workspace.
>
> Why does this happen?
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> Kind Regards,
> Thomas Hallgren
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