[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: How To Access Folders When Testing Plugi

[Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I answered this question in eclipse.newcomer. 

Wayne

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 10:57 +0000, Exquisitus wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've searched enough to find a solution for this particular issue, all in 
> waste.
> Here's the situation I'm facing now.
> 
> I have two projects in Eclipse, lets say :
> 
> com.test.PluginProject (plugin project)
> com.test.JavaProject (java project)
> 
> PluginProject has the business logic and JavaProject is dependant on 
> PluginProject. Everything works pretty much fine, except for, there are 
> some folders in the JavaProject which I'm not able to get a handle to, 
> when I launch the plugin for testing.
> 
> com.test.PluginProject -- depends on
> com.test.JavaProject
>  -- Folder
>    -- Sub-Folder1
>    -- Sub-Folder2
>      -- Internal-Folder1
>      -- Internal0Folder2
> 
> I want to browse through the contents of the folder and subfolders and 
> internal folders.
> 
> this.getClassloader().getResource()
> 
> gets the URL (Absolute), but since my launched application I won't be able 
> to create a file object.
> 
> Any lead on this one will be helpful. I'm not sure if this is the right 
> approach, suggestions to do it right way much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> /G
>