[news.eclipse.platform] Re: retrieving local history of an IFile

[laurent Goubet <laurent.goubet@xxxxxxx>]

Sorry, went a little overboard on that one ... my IFile was not an IFile 
(IResource :p) and I was too confident in the code completion.

Laurent Goubet
Obeo

laurent Goubet a écrit :
> hi,
>
> I have found a way to retrieve the history of a given IFile when its 
> project is connected to a VCS repository through code as :
>
> <snip>
> final IProject project = file.getProject();
> final RepositoryProvider provider = 
> RepositoryProvider.getProvider(project);
> final IFileHistoryProvider historyProvider = 
> provider.getFileHistoryProvider();
> final IFileHistory history = historyProvider.getFileHistoryFor(target, 
> IFileHistoryProvider.NONE, new NullProgressMonitor());
> </snip>
>
> Though try as I might, I cannot find any API way of retrieving the same 
> information when the project is _not_ connected to a repository. All I 
> found was something like
>
> <snip>
> final FileSystemManager fsm = 
> ((org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Workspace)workspace).getFileSystemManager(); 
>
> final HistoryStore = fsm.getStates(file.getFullPath(), new 
> NullProgressMonitor());
> </snip>
>
> Which leads to a fair amount of discouraged access warnings. Isn't there 
> any open API I'd have missed while digging through the code?
>
> Thanks
>
> Laurent Goubet
> Obeo

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