[news.eclipse.modeling.gmf] Re: extension point documentProviders

[peter_l@xxxxxx (Peter Lang)]

> > You can comment out generated ???DiagramEditor.getDocumentProvider() method 
> > so super implementation will be used (calling document provider registry).
> I tried it, but getDocumentProvider does not get called.
> getDocumentProvider is not used, setDocumentProvider is called by 
> DiagramDocumentEditor.updateDocumentProvider.

> So I changed setDocumentProvider to call
>   setDocumentProvider(super.getDocumentProvider(input));
> in my XxxDiagramEditor.

> In DocumentProviderRegistry.getDocumentProvider 
> editorInput.getAdapter(IFile.class) returns null, so file-extensions are 
> not used to find documentProvider.

> Reason for this seems to be that URI.isPlatformResource() returns false, 
> since segments[0] is the first directory of my path, and not "resource".

Do you know the reason for this?
Any workaround you could think of?

Thanks,
Peter