Re: [pde-dev] Creating IFile object for IEditorInput

[Brian Bauman <baumanbr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Talk about luck.  I was actually
trying to do this yesterday and put a question into a editor guru.  If
you are using 3.3, you need to get the latest Platform UI plugins out of
head.  Then you can use the following two lines of code to open an
editor on a file outside the workspace.

EFS.getLocalFileSystem().getStore(yourPath);
IDE.openEditorOnFileStore(page,
fileStore);

If you are using 3.2 or previous, try
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/FAQ_How_do_I_open_an_editor_on_a_file_outside_the_workspace%3F

Brian Bauman
     IBM Software Group - Austin, TX
     Eclipse Committer
     baumanbr@xxxxxxxxxx
     (512) 838 -2938 (T/L 678-2938)

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Hi
I am developing an Eclipse plugin where a user can browse
the folder structure of a remote system through FTP and can edit files
which are placed in the remote file system. 
The process we are following is getting the file to the
local file system and then opening the editor with the file as the input
to the editor. But for opening the editor we have to pass an object of
IEditorInput for which IFile is required. 
Is there a way that I can get an IFile object for a file
which is not residing in the workspace but in some other folder, like the
temporary folder of the user. 
I am using the following code snippet for getting the
IFile object where localFilePath is passed as parameter to the method:

            IFile file[]
= ResourcesPlugin. getWorkspace().getRoot().findFilesForLocation(new Path(localFilePath));
            if (file !=
null ) {
               
  int fLen = file. length;
               
  System. out.println( "fLen: " + fLen);
               
  for ( int j = 0; j < fLen; j++) {
               
        IFile tif = file[j];
               
        System.out.println( "tif.getName()"
+ tif.getName());
               
        System.out.println( "tif.getFullPath():
" + tif.getFullPath());
               
        if (tif != null) {
               
              return tif; 
               
        }
               
  } 
               
  System. out.println( "returning null");
               
  return null;
            } else { 
               
  System. out.println( "file[] == null");
               
  return null;
            } 
But it always returns a null. And if the IFile object
is not null then it definitely fails the exists test, i.e., IFile.exists
().
Even if the file is stored in the workspace then also
the IFile.exists() method fails and therefore the IEditorInput object is
not created.
Please help.
Thanks and Regards
Prashant_______________________________________________
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