[news.eclipse.platform] Re: File Path API

["John J. Barton" <johnjbarton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe this will give you some hints as to which API to look into:

IProject project = 
ResourcesPlugin.getWorkspace().getRoot().getProject(best_project_match);

	IPath as_specific_as_possible = source_path;
	if (project.exists()) {
	  iseg++; // skip project name
	  IPath resourcePath = source_path.removeFirstSegments(iseg);
	  IResource resource = project.findMember(resourcePath);
	  as_specific_as_possible = resource.getLocation();
	  if (as_specific_as_possible == null) {
		as_specific_as_possible = path; // someone lied
	  }
	} // else not in workspace

If you really want a URL, then try something like
  path.toFile().toURI().toURL();

Praveen wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I am writing a plugin and need to access a file within one of the folder.
>  
> I tried using URL u=this.getClass().getResource("/Profile/Profile.uml2");
>  
> But this returns a path of the eclipse installation. Is there any other 
> API which can return the path of the file?
>  
> Thanks Praveen.