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Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By : Alex Blewitt
Book Image

Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By: Alex Blewitt

Overview of this book

Eclipse is used by everyone from indie devs to NASA engineers. Its popularity is underpinned by its impressive plug-in ecosystem, which allows it to be extended to meet the needs of whoever is using it. This book shows you how to take full advantage of the Eclipse IDE by building your own useful plug-ins from start to finish. Taking you through the complete process of plug-in development, from packaging to automated testing and deployment, this book is a direct route to quicker, cleaner Java development. It may be for beginners, but we're confident that you'll develop new skills quickly. Pretty soon you'll feel like an expert, in complete control of your IDE. Don't let Eclipse define you - extend it with the plug-ins you need today for smarter, happier, and more effective development.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – creating resources


The next step is to create an IFile resource for the .html file (based on the name of the .minimark file). Eclipse uses an IPath object to represent the filename from the root of the workspace. An IPath with /project/folder/file.txt refers to the file.txt file in a folder called folder contained within the project project. The root path represents the IWorkspaceRoot.

  1. In the processResource method of the MinimarkVisitor class, calculate the new filename, and use it to get an IFile object from the file's parent IContainer object:

    try {
      IFile file = (IFile) resource;
      InputStream in = file.getContents();
      String htmlName = file.getName().replace(".minimark", ".html");
      IContainer container = file.getParent();
      IFile htmlFile = container.getFile(new Path(htmlName));
  2. To create the contents of the file, an InputStream instance has to be passed to the setContents method. The easiest way to create this is to pass a ByteArrayOutputStream instance to the convert...