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Re: [wtp-dev] Getting an EMF resource from an ArtifactEditModel, given an IFile and not a deploy location


 Are EMF resources referenced only by their *deployment* URI's?  I seem to recall seeing that they were.  If so, is there any suggestion for having more than one resource with the same deploy path, but different source paths?  Or is this pretty much just completely disallowed?
Actually, on further review, EMF resources are referenced (eventually, in the ResourceSet) by their file location ("platform:/resource/ProjectName/src/META-INF/persistence.xml"), not their deployment location.  If there were a way to look up  an EMF resource through the edit model using this sort of URI, that's all that we would need.

Paul Fullbright
Oracle Corp.
Eclipse Dali/Java Persistence Tools Development
paul.fullbright@xxxxxxxxxx


Paul Fullbright wrote:
Chuck,
Because you are using the ArtifactEditModel.getResource api, we use our own internal "module:" protocol when constructing the uri.
The resourceset has a URIConverter that knows how to normalize this uri using the projects component model.  The projects "root folder"
is used to determine the offset, and I'm guessing this project uses the "src" folder.  Have you tried using the uri "META-INF/persistence.xml"?
If we know what exact file we're looking for, then yes we can do that.  For example, when we're validating, we *know* we're looking for "META-INF/persistence.xml".  No problem.  API works fine.  And yes, in the case of a jst.utility project, I believe the root folder is always "src".  Of course, we work with a number of module facets, so it's only "src" in this specific case.

Our problem is that we can have multiple files, and they really could be named anything or in just about any source or web content folder, if the user so wishes.  We build up our inter-resource (project-wide) model by scanning through the workspace and picking up all the files that are of interest to the JPA platform so that we can respond to file changes, renames, etc.  And we initialize the EMF models for those files at that first scan, at which point we only have the file location.  We could *assume* certain things about the file's location and what folder it's in, but I don't feel very comfortable about doing that.

So the ability to access the resource given only the file location is pretty important.

Most of our uri's are static, so we don't need to calculate the offset into the "deployed" path.  But if you have an IFile instance of your resource you can use:

IVirtualComponent component = ComponentCore.createComponent(project);
List folderList = Arrays.asList(component.getRootFolder().getUnderlyingFolders());  // All the folders that contribute to the root deployment path
IPath path = WorkbenchResourceHelperBase.getPathFromContainers(list, anIFile.getFullPath()); // Will find the first match(folder) that contains your IFile
I will try this out.  Thanks.

Are EMF resources referenced only by their *deployment* URI's?  I seem to recall seeing that they were.  If so, is there any suggestion for having more than one resource with the same deploy path, but different source paths?  Or is this pretty much just completely disallowed?

Paul Fullbright
Oracle Corp.
Eclipse Dali/Java Persistence Tools Development
paul.fullbright@xxxxxxxxxx


Chuck Bridgham wrote:
Paul - First I want to apologize for taking so long to respond...  I'm working on addressing these questions more regulary

There may be an issue here, but I first want to understand your scenario...

Because you are using the ArtifactEditModel.getResource api, we use our own internal "module:" protocol when constructing the uri.
The resourceset has a URIConverter that knows how to normalize this uri using the projects component model.  The projects "root folder"
is used to determine the offset, and I'm guessing this project uses the "src" folder.  Have you tried using the uri "META-INF/persistence.xml"?

Most of our uri's are static, so we don't need to calculate the offset into the "deployed" path.  But if you have an IFile instance of your resource you can use:

IVirtualComponent component = ComponentCore.createComponent(project);
List folderList = Arrays.asList(component.getRootFolder().getUnderlyingFolders());  // All the folders that contribute to the root deployment path
IPath path = WorkbenchResourceHelperBase.getPathFromContainers(list, anIFile.getFullPath()); // Will find the first match(folder) that contains your IFile

Hope this helps... Chuck

Rational Java EE Tooling Team Lead
IBM Software Lab - Research Triangle Park, NC
Email:  cbridgha@xxxxxxxxxx
Phone: 919-254-1848 (T/L: 444)



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[wtp-dev] Getting an EMF resource from an ArtifactEditModel, given an IFile and not a deploy location







I'm trying to load an EMF resource from a project's (a jst.utility
project in this case, but this should work for any jst.* project) edit
model.  I have the actual file, therefore also its full path or project
relative path, which in this case is "src/META-INF/persistence.xml".

When I call:
   artifactEditModel.getResource(fileURI)  
   (where fileURI is the URI for the project relative path above,
"src/META-INF/persistence.xml")
the edit model normalizes the path to
"src/src/META-INF/persistence.xml", assuming that what I've given it is
the *deployment* path for the resource.  It assumes, that since it can't
find the virtual file for "src/META-INF/persistence.xml", that it
doesn't exist, but that if it did exist, it would be at the same
relative location in the first source folder for the project.  This
seems wrong, because I'd expect that it would first see if there's an
*actual* resource at the given location before trying to make such an
assumption, but maybe there's a reason for doing this that I don't
understand.  So the end result is that the edit model tries to give me a
resource for the project relative location
"src/src/META-INF/persistence.xml" (which doesn't exist) instead of the
project relative location "src/META-INF/persistence.xml" (which does exist).

Is there a way to either:
   - easily find the deployment path for a source path?  (If I give the
actual deployment path for the file "META-INF/persistence.xml", then the
normalized path calculated will be correct.)
or
   - better specify the URI of my file resource so that the edit model
can find my EMF resource?

Thanks,

Paul Fullbright
Oracle Corp.
Eclipse Dali/Java Persistence Tools Development
paul.fullbright@xxxxxxxxxx


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