[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: Determine if a method has source?

[Jerome Lanneluc <jerome_lanneluc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Desmond wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know how to determine if an IMethod has source or source 
> attachment without calling getSource()..at the moment i use the 
> getSource() method and check if the result != null... but this seems to 
> cause pretty bad performance problems for large files...
>
> Thanks
> Mike
To know is there is a source attachment for the corresponding root, you
can use the following:

IMethod method = ...
IPackageFragmentRoot root = (IPackageFragmentRoot ) method.getAncestor(IJavaElement.PACKAGE_FRAGMENT_ROOT);
return root.getSourceAttachmentPath() != null;

Jerome