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How to access external Resources (best practices wanted) [message #336417]

Wed, 10 June 2009 11:53

Eclipse User

Hi all,

I am developing eclipse support for Modelica. That language has some
common structures, one is external libraries.
So like in common java projects I want be able to add those libs to my
project and have them shown in the Navigator.

The easiest way to do that would be to have some kind of virtual IFolder
that does not map to a _real_ workspace local resource. Is that even
possible?

The other way would be to completely implement that stuff in my project
model myself without sharing any common types with eclipse (one shall
not implement IContainer). Isn't that overhead?

any ideas?

Re: How to access external Resources (best practices wanted) [message #336420 is a reply to message #336417]

Wed, 10 June 2009 13:21

Eclipse User

Christoph,

If you literally want your own file system implementation, looking into
use EFS (Eclipse File System) for that. Note however that this is not
how Java projects implement what you seen in the Common Navigator or
Package Explorer... Content providers can induce any tree structure you
want visually...

Christoph Höger wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am developing eclipse support for Modelica. That language has some
> common structures, one is external libraries.
> So like in common java projects I want be able to add those libs to my
> project and have them shown in the Navigator.
>
> The easiest way to do that would be to have some kind of virtual
> IFolder that does not map to a _real_ workspace local resource. Is
> that even possible?
>
> The other way would be to completely implement that stuff in my
> project model myself without sharing any common types with eclipse
> (one shall not implement IContainer). Isn't that overhead?
>
> any ideas?

Re: How to access external Resources (best practices wanted) [message #336421 is a reply to message #336420]

Wed, 10 June 2009 13:49

Eclipse User

No, I definetely do not want to write a complete file system
abstraction. But when I designed my interfaces I discovered that there
would be Source Folders (which have a IFolder) and Library Entries that
both should provide the (java package like) contents.
So to make life easier I just gave both a common superinterface which
can return IContainer (so Navigator should be able to handle those
contents for free).

So there is no way but to deliver that content myself. OK.

thanks for the answer

(and stay tuned for way more Navigator related questions)

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