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Confused about IProject and IJavaProject [message #696950]

Fri, 15 July 2011 07:50

Tam Gom

Messages: 36
Registered: July 2011

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Hello Everyone!

Currently I'm writing a plug-in where the user can select projects from the Package Explorer.

I acquire the selected items this way:

IStructuredSelection selection = (IStructuredSelection) HandlerUtil.getCurrentSelection(event);

At some point I try to use the selection's items as IProject objects but I get an error that IJavaProject cannot be casted to IProject. And indeed, I see in the debugger that the object is IJavaProject.

Object obj = selection.iterator().next(); 
IProject project = (IProject) obj;

No problem, I can easily get the IProject object from IJavaProject but the code above actually worked a few months ago.

In another case I try to do something similar and in the selection I have IJavaProject and IProject objects at the same time, so I have to check their types every time.

for (Object o : selection.toList()) {
     if (o instanceof IJavaProject) {
          projects.add(((IJavaProject)o).getProject());
     } else if (o instanceof IProject) {
          projects.add((IProject) o);
     }
}

And the most confusing for me is that there are Java projects (projects that were checked out from an SVN repository as new Java projects) and they are IProject objects even though I expect them to be IJavaProject objects.

So could somebody please explain to me what the deal is with IJavaProject and IProject and how I should handle selections properly?

Thank you very much!

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Re: Confused about IProject and IJavaProject [message #698501 is a reply to message #696950]

Tue, 19 July 2011 15:09

Tam Gom

Messages: 36
Registered: July 2011

Member

Ok, the above problem can be solved by IAdaptable if anybody is interested.

Now I have another problem and it's related to IProject and IJavaProject again. I have created my own PropertyTester. Here's how I defined it in my plugin.xml:

<extension 
          point="org.eclipse.core.expressions.propertyTesters">
      <propertyTester
         id="my.plugin.MyPropertyTester"
         type="org.eclipse.core.resources.IProject"
         namespace="my.plugin"
         properties="isProject"
         class="my.plugin.MyPropertyTester">
      </propertyTester>
</extension>

The problem here is that the type attribute restricts when the property tester is called. So if a project in the package explorer is an IProject object there's no problem but my property tester is not called when it's an IJavaProject.
I can't find a way to define two different types as restriction for a property tester or any other solution.

Any ideas?

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