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How to get file location from a BundleDescription [message #85769]

Sun, 01 April 2007 18:34

Eclipse User

I am able to retrieve the location via getLocation() but I need
something that can be used to create a File object and not "update@../".

Thanks!

Re: How to get file location from a BundleDescription [message #85784 is a reply to message #85769]

Mon, 02 April 2007 01:39

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: alex_blewitt.yahoo.com

You shouldn't assume that there's a File location available. You can use 'getClass().getResourceAsStream()' to load the contents. If you need a File for legacy API usage, then extract a copy to the PluginStateLocation first.

Alex

Re: How to get file location from a BundleDescription [message #85799 is a reply to message #85784]

Mon, 02 April 2007 07:53

Eclipse User

Thank you for the fast response. I am trying to find away to locate the
plug-ins mentioned in the .state files in configuration directory. I am
reading in the State and looking at the bundle Descriptions using
StateObjectFactory. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a pointer
from the configuration directory back to the Eclipse Directory. Do you
know of any?

Alex Blewitt wrote:
> You shouldn't assume that there's a File location available. You can use 'getClass().getResourceAsStream()' to load the contents. If you need a File for legacy API usage, then extract a copy to the PluginStateLocation first.
>
> Alex

Re: How to get file location from a BundleDescription [message #85829 is a reply to message #85799]

Mon, 02 April 2007 16:47

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: alex_blewitt.yahoo.com

The configuration directory isn't really used for configuration. It's more like the equinox work area.

Plugins access state using the Plugin.getStateLocation() directory.

http://help.eclipse.org/help32/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse. platform.doc.isv/reference/api/org/eclipse/core/runtime/Plat form.html

http://help.eclipse.org/help32/topic/org.eclipse.platform.do c.isv/reference/api/org/eclipse/core/runtime/Plugin.html#get StateLocation()

That will create you an IPath, and then you can put whatever files in there that you want.

Alex.

Re: How to get file location from a BundleDescription [message #85990 is a reply to message #85829]

Tue, 03 April 2007 16:20

Eclipse User

Let me take a step back. I am writing an application to diagnose Eclipse
Instances on the User's computer. I have been using the configuration
directory since I can gather Bundle Information and find missing
dependencies without starting the Eclipse Instance.

Thanks.

Alex Blewitt wrote:
> The configuration directory isn't really used for configuration. It's more like the equinox work area.
>
> Plugins access state using the Plugin.getStateLocation() directory.
>
> http://help.eclipse.org/help32/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse. platform.doc.isv/reference/api/org/eclipse/core/runtime/Plat form.html
>
> http://help.eclipse.org/help32/topic/org.eclipse.platform.do c.isv/reference/api/org/eclipse/core/runtime/Plugin.html#get StateLocation()
>
> That will create you an IPath, and then you can put whatever files in there that you want.
>
> Alex.

Re: How to get file location from a BundleDescription [message #86035 is a reply to message #85990]

Wed, 04 April 2007 01:47

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: alex_blewitt.yahoo.com

Ah, so you're probing internal state of the configuration directory to do some specific Equinox-probing; right. I don't think there's any exposed API to deal with that, but I could be wrong; you might get better results (if no-one else replies here) by posting a message to the equinox-dev mailing list.

Alex.

Re: How to get file location from a BundleDescription [message #86098 is a reply to message #86035]

Wed, 04 April 2007 08:20

Eclipse User

Alex Blewitt wrote:
> Ah, so you're probing internal state of the configuration directory to do some specific Equinox-probing; right. I don't think there's any exposed API to deal with that, but I could be wrong; you might get better results (if no-one else replies here) by posting a message to the equinox-dev mailing list.
>
> Alex.
It looks like the getLocation() method of the BundleDescriptor returns a
relative path. So if I can figure out whhich eclipse instance used a
configuration directory, I may be able to put the 2 together. However I
cannot find any pointer in the configuration directory back to the
Eclipse executable. Do you know of any?

Re: How to get file location from a BundleDescription [message #87398 is a reply to message #86098]

Wed, 02 May 2007 15:37

Eclipse User

Aaron Cohen wrote:
> It looks like the getLocation() method of the BundleDescriptor returns a
> relative path. So if I can figure out whhich eclipse instance used a
> configuration directory, I may be able to put the 2 together. However I
> cannot find any pointer in the configuration directory back to the
> Eclipse executable. Do you know of any?

The getLocation method of BundleDescription returns the location string
used to install the bundle. This string can be anything, there is no
requirement for it to be a real path. That being said the paths in the
location are by convention relative to the eclipse installation. The
real path information for the bundles is stored in the .bundledata file
in the org.eclipse.osgi configuration cache. There is currently no api
for reading this internal data structure.

Tom.

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