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Reading info from plugin.xml [message #93313]

Wed, 11 February 2009 09:37

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Hi all,

I was wondering if there is any API to read from a given plugin.xml and
get information on the extended extension points. I cannot use the
extension registry for this since the plugin.xml I am trying to retrieve
information from is in one of the workspace's plugins, not an installed one.

I did find PluginModel, IPluginModelBase, IPluginModel ... but all these
are either deprecated or internal. Is there no public API for such
needs? Re-writing a parser for this seems overkill to me.

Laurent Goubet
Obeo

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Re: Reading info from plugin.xml [message #93591 is a reply to message #93313]

Thu, 12 February 2009 17:46

Eclipse User

laurent Goubet wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if there is any API to read from a given plugin.xml and
> get information on the extended extension points. I cannot use the
> extension registry for this since the plugin.xml I am trying to retrieve
> information from is in one of the workspace's plugins, not an installed
> one.
>
> I did find PluginModel, IPluginModelBase, IPluginModel ... but all these
> are either deprecated or internal. Is there no public API for such
> needs? Re-writing a parser for this seems overkill to me.

How about using the PluginRegistry API from PDE:

org.eclipse.pde.core.plugin.PluginRegistry

You should eventually be able to get an IExtensions or IExtension for
your model.

Let me know if you need more help.

Cheers,

~ Chris

Re: Reading info from plugin.xml [message #93736 is a reply to message #93591]

Fri, 13 February 2009 09:26

Eclipse User

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Thanks Chris, this seems to be exactly what I was searching for. I
didn't find the actual entry point to all of this API :).

A little off subject but since I see this I might also get the info :
does this provide a way to get a default class loader for the plugins of
the workspace without launching a second runtime? Could be awesome to
test classes currently in development (might prove a little error-prone
but ... :)).

Laurent Goubet
Obeo

Chris Aniszczyk a

Re: Reading info from plugin.xml [message #93750 is a reply to message #93736]

Fri, 13 February 2009 13:09

Eclipse User

laurent Goubet wrote:
> A little off subject but since I see this I might also get the info :
> does this provide a way to get a default class loader for the plugins of
> the workspace without launching a second runtime? Could be awesome to
> test classes currently in development (might prove a little error-prone
> but ... :)).

So, as of Eclipse 3.5M4, we support exporting plug-ins from the
workspace in the current host:

http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/S-3.5M4- 200812111908/eclipse-news-M4.html#PDE

See, "Single-click export and install into running platform"

Cheers,

--
Chris Aniszczyk | EclipseSource Austin | +1 860 839 2465
http://twitter.com/caniszczyk | http://twitter.com/eclipsesource

Re: Reading info from plugin.xml [message #93763 is a reply to message #93750]

Fri, 13 February 2009 13:09

Eclipse User

Chris Aniszczyk wrote:
> So, as of Eclipse 3.5M4, we support exporting plug-ins from the
> workspace in the current host:

Err, that would be Eclipse 3.5M3

http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/S-3.5M3- 200810301917/eclipse-news-M3.html#PDE

Re: Reading info from plugin.xml [message #93821 is a reply to message #93763]

Mon, 16 February 2009 08:20

Eclipse User

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Thanks Chris, I'll definitely have a look into this, seems like a great
feature :). A shame it only appeared in 3.5 though :(

Chris Aniszczyk a

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