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Resource from a non-physical file [message #1724390]

Tue, 23 February 2016 10:03

Eclipse User

Hi,

Does a Resource always boil down to a physical file ?
In my case I have the content of a xml file that is stored in a java String.
Do I really need to save it on the disk and load the Resource from there, that way:

Resource resource = resourceSet.getResource(fileURI, true);

or is there a way to avoid saving on the disk ?

Thank you.

Aurel

Re: Resource from a non-physical file [message #1724395 is a reply to message #1724390]

Tue, 23 February 2016 11:17

Eclipse User

You can load resourse from anything as long as there is a URI handler which knows how to open stream for your "anything". In one of my projects I used mem: protocol and a custom protocol handler to load models from in-memory resourses.

Re: Resource from a non-physical file [message #1724398 is a reply to message #1724390]

Tue, 23 February 2016 11:32

Eclipse User

Hi

You can use ResourceSet.createResource to create the resource then load
it from a stream.

Regards

Ed Willink

On 23/02/2016 15:03, aurel pestell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does a Resource always boil down to a physical file ?
> In my case I have the content of a xml file that is stored in a java
> String.
> Do I really need to save it on the disk and load the Resource from
> there, that way:
> Resource resource = resourceSet.getResource(fileURI, true);
>
> or is there a way to avoid saving on the disk ?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Aurel

Re: Resource from a non-physical file [message #1724401 is a reply to message #1724398]

Tue, 23 February 2016 12:06

Eclipse User

Thanks, something like that should work (inspired from the XMLProcessor):

InputSource inputSource = new InputSource(new StringReader(xmlContent));
		XMLResource resource = (XMLResource) resourceSet.createResource(URI.createFileURI("xml"));
		resource.load(inputSource, null);

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