Re: [pde-ui-dev] Extracting information from plugin.xml

[Rajeev Sikka <sikkar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dejan,

I tried a couple of appraches using
some functionality (internal) in PDE core:

Approach 1:
===========
I got all the models (plugin.xmls in
the workspace) and then got a pointer (IPluginExtension) to the particular
extension that I am interested in. However, I cannot find any functionality
to get information from inside the <extension ... </extension>
tag.

Approach 2
===========
I got the  WorkspacePluginModel
corresponding to the plugin.xml. There is a function - getContents() on
WorkspacePluginModel that I thought I would return me the full plugin.xml
in String format from which I could extract info that I needed using String
manipulation functions. But getContents() returned "".

Could you give me any pointers as to
how to go about from this point to get  information about the class.

Thanks
Rajeev

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Rajeev,

PDE does have a model of the world in the workspace, but it is not public
(note that 'internal API' do not exist in Eclipse - things are either API
or internal :-).

Regards,

Dejan Glozic, Ph.D.
Manager, Eclipse Development 1A
D2/R0Q/8200/MKM
IBM Canada Ltd.
Tel. 905 413-2745  T/L 969-2745
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Hi,

I have a requirement where I need to extract information from thr
plugin.xml corresponding to a plugin project thats still being developed
i.e. a plugin thats in the workspace and has NOT been deployed yet.

The situation is similar to the Hello World plugin. When you create the
HelloWorld plugin the user provides the name and location of the action
class. Here is a snippet of the plugin.xml:

<action
   label="&amp;Sample Action"
   icon="icons/sample.gif"
   class="hello.actions.SampleAction"
   tooltip="Hello, Eclipse world"
   menubarPath="sampleMenu/sampleGroup"
   toolbarPath="sampleGroup"
   id="hello.actions.SampleAction">
</action>

I want to extract the string corresponding to the class tag i.e.
"hello.actions.SampleAction" in this case.

Are there any public (or internal) APIs in the PDE that can be used to
do
this (or is there any alternate way to do this) ?

Thanks,
Rajeev

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