[news.eclipse.tools.pdt] Re: Reading info from plugin.xml

[Chris Aniszczyk <zx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

laurent Goubet wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if there is any API to read from a given plugin.xml and 
> get information on the extended extension points. I cannot use the 
> extension registry for this since the plugin.xml I am trying to retrieve 
> information from is in one of the workspace's plugins, not an installed 
> one.
>
> I did find PluginModel, IPluginModelBase, IPluginModel ... but all these 
> are either deprecated or internal. Is there no public API for such 
> needs? Re-writing a parser for this seems overkill to me.

How about using the PluginRegistry API from PDE:

org.eclipse.pde.core.plugin.PluginRegistry

You should eventually be able to get an IExtensions or IExtension for 
your model.

Let me know if you need more help.

Cheers,

~ Chris