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Environment variable support in workspace files [message #880165]

Fri, 01 June 2012 10:46

Eclipse User

Hello everybody,

i hope this is the forum that fits my question.

My development team wants to start using Eclipse but there seems to be no support for environment variables in workspace configurations.

Here is an example to make my question more understandable:

- ProjectX stored at D:\Development\Common\Components
- Workspace with ProjectX stored at D:\ExampleWorkspace

The workspace stores the location of ProjectX in the file

.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources\.projects\ProjectX\.location

as

URI//file:/D:/Development/Common/Components

We do not want to deal with absolute paths because the workspace configuration needs to be portable across different machines. Therefore we want to use environment variables (like %DEVELOPMENT% which points to D:\Development).

Where can i find the Eclipse source code that implements the "URI parsing" so that i can apply a patch adding support for URIs like:

URI//file:/%DEVELOPMENT%/Common/Components

Thanks in advance for listening Smile

Re: Environment variable support in workspace files [message #880427 is a reply to message #880165]

Fri, 01 June 2012 21:11

Eclipse User

On 06/01/2012 09:46 AM, Daniel Frömmel wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> i hope this is the forum that fits my question.
> My development team wants to start using Eclipse but there seems to be
> no support for environment variables in workspace configurations.
> Here is an example to make my question more understandable:
>
> - ProjectX stored at D:\Development\Common\Components
> - Workspace with ProjectX stored at D:\ExampleWorkspace
>
> The workspace stores the location of ProjectX in the file
> metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources\.projects\ProjectX\.location
>
> as
> URI//file:/D:/Development/Common/Components
>
> We do not want to deal with absolute paths because the workspace
> configuration needs to be portable across different machines. Therefore
> we want to use environment variables (like %DEVELOPMENT% which points to
> D:\Development).
> Where can i find the Eclipse source code that implements the "URI
> parsing" so that i can apply a patch adding support for URIs like:
>
> URI//file:/%DEVELOPMENT%/Common/Components
>
> Thanks in advance for listening :)
You don't want to move workspaces from workstation to workstation. You
want to share projects. Workspaces are not designed to be portable.
The project structure allows this by using Resource Variables.

Re: Environment variable support in workspace files [message #880504 is a reply to message #880427]

Sat, 02 June 2012 02:36

Eclipse User

Hello David,

thanks for your reply.

Quote:

Workspaces are not designed to be portable.

Yep, i recognized this fact. That's why i want to change it. Also you are right that we want to share projects but we want to share in the sense of a "whole bunch" of projects belonging together _but_ aren't compiled into one project.

I don't really know what you are referring to when speaking of Resource Variables. Is there some documentation about that subject? Google won't guide me this time.

[Updated on: Sat, 02 June 2012 02:36] by Moderator

Re: Environment variable support in workspace files [message #881542 is a reply to message #880504]

Mon, 04 June 2012 15:57

Eclipse User

Look for Path Variables and Linked Resources in the Workbench Users Guide provided on the Help page. Depending on your SCM, I believe you can use Team Project Sets to define a group of projects that go together.

Re: Environment variable support in workspace files [message #881552 is a reply to message #881542]

Mon, 04 June 2012 16:27

Eclipse User

Hi, thanks. I found the linked resources dialog already. It only works for projects, not for workspaces because the dialog is missing here.

I filed a bug report (as suggested by a member of the resource plugin) here:

http s : // bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=381434

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