Hi Eduard,
Now, this "how do I find from the code in my plugin what path to use for
given project?" is a concise question and so is easier (and longer) to
answer :-). I'm not very good at answering things, but let me have a try
with this question.
== How do I find ...?
The "how do I find [...] from the code in my plugin" is an easy question.
In NetBeans the answer is usually the same independently of what you're
looking for:
- Many NetBeans objects are also "Lookup.Provider"s [1], that give you a
"Lookup" [2] to look inside them.
- Once you have one object's lookup you just ask it for whatever you
want to find.
Here's a tutorial for the Lookup API. I'm not sure if you need it, but
I'm adding it just in case:
https://dzone.com/articles/netbeans-lookups-explained
== Projects
In your case you should have a "Project" [3] object somehow.
The "Project" objects represent projects in the IDE. Note that these
"Project" objects implement the "Lookup.Provider" interface, so they
return a Lookup object that you can use to find stuff in the project itself.
Of course there're many kinds of "Project" objects in NetBeans: you have
Maven Projects [4], Ant Projects [5] (which in turn have many variants,
including JavaEE Projects, for instance).
The good thing is that all these project types are just an
implementation of the "Project" [3] interface, which in turn is a
"Lookup.Provider" [1]. This means that you can "lookup for things" in
all projects using the same interface.
== Project Sources
Now, right to the point of your question,
> My question now is: "how do I find from the code in my plugin what path
> to use for given project?" Is there, for instance, an SPI tat i could
> lookup to find it?
Yes, in fact there's a whole Project API to look things up in Projects!
The Project API is here:
https://bits.netbeans.org/12.0/javadoc/org-netbeans-modules-projectapi/overview-summary.html
Note that there's also a Project SPI that you can use if you're building
a Project of your own and want to add features to the Project.
And a possible answer to your question is in the "ProjectUtils" class in
the API (that simplifies all Lookup for you), here:
http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/javadoc/org-netbeans-modules-projectapi/org/netbeans/api/project/ProjectUtils.html#getSources-org.netbeans.api.project.Project-
Sorry for the long answer. Feel free to ask any other questions you may
have.
Kind regards,
Antonio
[1]
http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/javadoc/org-openide-util-lookup/org/openide/util/Lookup.Provider.html
[2]
http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/javadoc/org-openide-util-lookup/org/openide/util/Lookup.html
[3]
http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/javadoc/org-netbeans-modules-projectapi/org/netbeans/api/project/Project.html
[4]
https://github.com/apache/netbeans/blob/master/java/maven/src/org/netbeans/modules/maven/NbMavenProjectImpl.java
[5]
http://netbeans.apache.org/tutorials/nbm-projecttypeant.html
El 21/6/20 a las 11:18, Eduard Karel de Jong escribió:
Hello Antonio,
Thanks for confirming that different types of projects in NB use
different paths to store generated code.
My question now is: "how do I find from the code in my plugin what path
to use for given project?" Is there, for instance, an SPI tat i could
lookup to find it?
Or, maybe, it does not matter as NB combines all the possible paths in
the various projects. In that case i could fix the location at, for
instance "build/generated code," the path used in projects built with ant.
I tried google searches and they consistently misinterpret the question
and go nowhere.
Cheers
Edaurd
antonio wrote on 20/06/2020 11:27:
Hi,
This depends on the build-system supporting the project type.
For instance, for Maven projects people usually leave generated
sources in "target/generated-sources/whatever", while others use
"src/main/whatever". For Maven projects you can customize these
directories in your pom.xml.
AFAIK NetBeans correctly detects the generated sources folders and
shows them in the IDE.
HTH,
Antonio
El 19/6/20 a las 17:20, Eduard Karel de Jong escribió:
Hi,
I'm working on a NB module that generates java code from files in
software dev projects and different types of projects have different
locations for the generated files.
Is the location for generating code relevant and if so, is there a
generic way to determine the proper location for a particular project
type?
Thanks for any hint on how to find the answer to this question.
Cheers
eduard de jong
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