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Import a Custom Project [message #1815674]

Tue, 08 October 2019 09:24

Mihnea-Costache Marin

Messages: 68
Registered: September 2019

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Hello,

I have a plugin that creates a project. I am using class which implements INewWizard, IExecutableExtension. This way, I can create a wizard(I have another class which provides the files and the logic behind it).

Now, I am working on importing a project. I managed to get the wizard to appear on the import page, but I am not sure how to configure the logic behind to look through the workspace and select a project.

Is there a way of doing this?

Thank you!

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Re: Import a Custom Project [message #1815679 is a reply to message #1815674]

Tue, 08 October 2019 10:13

Emmanuel Chebbi

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Registered: February 2018

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Hello,

Quote:

I am not sure how to configure the logic behind to look through the workspace and select a project

Not sure to understand why you want to do that: importing a project within the workspace means that the project already exists somewhere outside of the workspace, right?

I have never wrote a custom Import wizard because the Import Existing Projects into Workspace wizard has always fulfilled my needs but I think you'll need two things:

a dialog allowing the user to select the project to import (such as DirectoryDialog [1])
a code that imports this project when the user validates. See for instance this answer on StackOverflow [2].

The latter assumes that the project to import is already an Eclipse project (it has a .project file at its root). If that's not the case you'll have to create a new project as you did in your NewProject wizard.

[1] https://help.eclipse.org/2019-09/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.isv%2Freference%2Fapi%2Forg%2Feclipse%2Fswt%2Fwidgets%2FDirectoryDialog.html
[2] https://stackoverflow.com/a/12430228

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Re: Import a Custom Project [message #1815689 is a reply to message #1815679]

Tue, 08 October 2019 13:21

Mihnea-Costache Marin

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Registered: September 2019

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Isn't there already a DirectoryDialog? For creating a wizard there is WizardNewProjectCreationPage. I assume there must be one for importing a project as well

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