[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: problems with searching for references

[Frederic Fusier <frederic_fusier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You correctly use Search Engine, but it just cannot find references in
non-Java files...

When you said that Eclipse finds references in plugin.xml, I guess you
mean that using the 'File Search' of Eclipse, then you found matches...
But this kind of search is a text search inside file contents (like
Windows search in fact) which is different from Java Search...

Rudolf Ziegaus wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to search for references for a class or a method. I do this via 
>
>       getSearchEngine().search(pattern, getParticipants(), searchScope,                    
>                                searchRequestor, monitor);
>
> where the pattern has been created with 
>
>
>     pattern = SearchPattern.createPattern(element,         
>                                           JavaSearchConstants.REFERENCES);
>
> and the searchScope has been created with
>
>     searchScope = SearchEngine.createJavaSearchScope(javaProjects);
>  
> javaProjects is a array of IJavaProject, that the user selects.
>
> Now when I use this approach on classes I will find all references in java
> source code, but I miss references in plugin.xml.
> Eclipse itself however also finds the reference to plugin.xml when I search
> the same projects via "references".
>
> I thought that maybe the way I create my searchscope might be wrong, so I
> tried SearchEngine.createWorkspaceScope(), but to no avail. I also tried
> variations of the createPattern method, but again I had no success.
>
> Can anybody give me a hint which approach I need to take in order to also
> find references to a class in plugin.xml?
>
>
> TIA,
>
> Rudi