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

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

Praveen, I think "plugin folder" isn't said, rather your plugin is
a "bundle", a thing that is an abstraction of how the storage might be 
implemented.  That's why Tom's getBundle() is the right way to go for 
plugin file access. The code I posted was for Eclipse IResources (not 
Java's resource aka non-class file in a package).

John.

Praveen wrote:
> Hi John,
>  
> Thank you for your reply. I am trying to use the API as you suggested, 
> but am not able to get a path. In fact the getProject returns me a 
> project even when the project does not exist.
>  
> I just realized that I should not be accessing the resource as a file 
> path, because if the plugin is deployed as a jar, then the jar would 
> need to be extracted to a temp location for the absolute path to be valid.
>  
> Is there a better way to access a resource contained in a plugin folder?
>  
> Regards Praveen.
>
>     "John J. Barton" <johnjbarton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:johnjbarton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote in message
>     news:ekth5d$skj$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     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.