The source jars are all available in a file called source.info located in eclipse\configuration\org.eclipse.equinox.source
p2 writes these files using SimpleConfigurationManipulatorImpl but I assume that PDE has some logic / helper code that does all the logic you are interested
in since it needs to look at the p2 metadata to figure out the bundle to source relationship.
HTH
Pascal
From: equinox-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:equinox-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Andrew Eisenberg
Sent: April-23-13 2:36 PM
To: Equinox development mailing list
Subject: [equinox-dev] Getting an instance of a source bundle
I would like to get a handle on a source bundle, but they do not seem to be installed in the running Eclipse. For example, I would like to be able to do this:
Bundle jdtUiSource = Platform.getBundle("org.eclipse.jdt.ui.source");
However, this always returns null.
Indeed, when I look use the OSGi console, I see something like this, even though the source bundle is available:
osgi> ss org.eclipse.jdt.ui
"Framework is launched."
id State Bundle
243 ACTIVE org.eclipse.jdt.ui_3.8.2.v20130107-165834
What I really need is a way to find the filesystem path to a source bundle (or null if not available). So, I don't need the bundle instance, but this just seems like a handy way to get the path.
Does anyone have some ideas on what I can do?
thanks,
Andrew