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Loading EMF Model from plugin-directory [message #641467]

Thu, 25 November 2010 15:22

No real name

Messages: 2
Registered: November 2010

Junior Member

Hi guys,
I'm quite new to Eclipse plugin development and EMF and I'm heading a probably silly problem:

I've made an EMF model that shall serve as dictionary. I created an instance and added the dictionary entries that I need, and serialized it to XMI. So I have my dictionary as serialized EMF-instance in a file now, laying in the development-eclipse-workspace.

My problem is now: I need the dictionary in the target-eclipse-workspace. But if I want to deserialize/load the EMF-instance from the file, I can't access it, because it lays in the development-eclipse-workspace which I can't access. And I also cannot put the file in the target-workspace.

Therefore I need to somehow load the XMI during the plugin intialization! Can u please help me how to do that?

Thanks in advance and greetings!

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Re: Loading EMF Model from plugin-directory [message #641482 is a reply to message #641467]

Thu, 25 November 2010 15:45

Ed Merks

Messages: 33142
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Norbert,

Comments below.

Norbert.Fuerst@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I'm quite new to Eclipse plugin development and EMF and I'm heading a
> probably silly problem:
>
> I've made an EMF model that shall serve as dictionary. I created an
> instance and added the dictionary entries that I need, and serialized
> it to XMI. So I have my dictionary as serialized EMF-instance in a
> file now, laying in the development-eclipse-workspace.
>
> My problem is now: I need the dictionary in the
> target-eclipse-workspace. But if I want to deserialize/load the
> EMF-instance from the file, I can't access it, because it lays in the
> development-eclipse-workspace which I can't access. And I also cannot
> put the file in the target-workspace.
>
> Therefore I need to somehow load the XMI during the plugin
> intialization! Can u please help me how to do that?
I'm not sure it makes sense to assume the workspace has specific files
in it. You'd use platform:/resource/<project>/<path-in-project> to load
things in the workspace. You can use
platform:/plugin/<bundle-id>/<path-in-bundle> to load things from the
installed bundles themselves.
>
> Thanks in advance and greetings!

Ed Merks
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Re: Loading EMF Model from plugin-directory [message #641548 is a reply to message #641467]

Fri, 26 November 2010 02:09

Ashwani Kr Sharma

Messages: 119
Registered: July 2009
Location: Bangalore, India

Senior Member

Hi,

This is very nice blog on various types of URIs possible to load and save resources.
http://lmap.blogspot.com/2008/03/platform-scheme-uri.html

The plugin type URI is also explained there.

Regards,
Ashwani Kr Sharma

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