[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Extending Folder resource

[Ed Merks <merks@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Rahul,

It's not intended to be subclassed so don't even bother trying.  You 
should use persistent properties or some other type of mechanism to 
augment the existing implementation.


Rahul Kamdar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to extend the org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Folder to create my 
> own type of a Folder and add to the behavior and some of my own 
> manipulations. When I try to directly extend it, the constructor returns a 
> ClassCastException. Even if I try to cast a folder object to my own custom 
> folder, I get the same ClassCastException.
>
> We cannot extend classes defined under org.eclipse.core.internal.resources, 
> is it? Would you suggest on how to try to the same! :-)
>
> Thanks. 
>
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