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Project's classpath available to plugin [message #536727]

Sun, 30 May 2010 12:29

Filip Kis

Messages: 31
Registered: April 2010

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Hi there!

I have a following situation. I'm working on a plugin with deals with special kind of java projects. During the execution of the plugin I need to run some third party jars that I have available in my plugin. This all works fine, however the third party jars expect some resources on the classpath that the user will have in his project. I don't want to add them to my plugin, because they have to be project specific.

So is there any way to add some resources from users project to my plug-ins classpath (and then remove them after the execution of course).

Filip

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Re: Project's classpath available to plugin [message #536891 is a reply to message #536727]

Mon, 31 May 2010 12:36

Martin Skorsky

Messages: 112
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

You can use
jproject.setRawClasspath(newRawClasspath, new NullProgressMonitor())
where jproject is some IJavaProject and newRawClasspath is a IClasspathEntry[].

HTH

Martin

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Re: Project's classpath available to plugin [message #536956 is a reply to message #536891]

Mon, 31 May 2010 16:43

Filip Kis

Messages: 31
Registered: April 2010

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Hi Martin,

thank you for your response.

However I'm not sure your solution provides what I need. It adds add entry to the project's classpath. But that's not what I need. I need an entry on my plug-ins classpath. But the entry will come from the users project.

So let's say user selects a command on one of his projects, then my plugin is executed, searches users project for a resource and when finds it adds it to the plugins classpath and then executes a third party library that is able to use the resource because it is on the classpath.

Filip

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