[news.eclipse.pde] Re: how to access a file in Plugin at runtime

[zhuj@xxxxxxxxx (Jinhui)]

Hi laurent, 

thanks for the reply, 

> ResourcesPlugin.getWorkspace().getRoot().getFile(new Path(filepath)) can 
> do what you seek, with filepath being a String relative to the workspace 
> root (i.e. of the form '/' + pluginName + '/' + path).

the problem with this approach is for debugging: usually i started my 
plugin in a new runtime application for testing, so what I got using this 
approach is the runtime workspace, not the original one. 



> An other option would be to use 
> Platform.getBundle(pluginID).getEntry(filepath) with filepath being a 
> path relative to the plugin root.

I haven't tried this due to time limitations. 

I think the best way to solve the relative path it like the following: 
save the file inside the src package, and access it from the accessing 
class like this:
ACCESSING_Class.getClass().getResourceAsStream("../ont.owl"); 
This worked well for the runtime application for tests as well.

best regards!
Jinhui