Exactly.

Gj

On Friday, October 5, 2018, Peter Nabbefeld <[email protected]> wrote:

> It just was a guess. I just wanted to work around my other question
> (getting the url from a file reference).
>
> But, thinking about it, this it isn't expected to be possible, as the
> layer file becomes part of the XML filesystem after installation, it
> doesn't have a "personality" of its own which would justify to store its
> "personal" contents separately und thus having a permanent pointer to it.
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> Am 05.10.18 um 08:47 schrieb Geertjan Wielenga:
>
>> I still don’t understand why it is that you are trying to do this, if you
>> explain the context, that would help. You should never need to access the
>> layer.xml file itself. There are method calls in FileUtil for getting hold
>> of folders and files in the layer. Can you explain what it is you’re
>> trying
>> to achieve? Parsing the layer directly is never going to be the correct
>> approach.
>>
>> Gj
>>
>>
>> On Friday, October 5, 2018, Peter Nabbefeld <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> ModuleInfo does not seem to provide access to everything from the
>>> manifest, especially not the path to the layer file.
>>>
>>> P.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 05.10.18 um 07:10 schrieb Geertjan Wielenga:
>>>
>>> Unless you don't mean the module info file from Jigsaw, and you mean
>>>> something different instead? The layer.xml file is registered in the
>>>> module's manifest, if that helps.
>>>>
>>>> Gj
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 7:06 AM Geertjan Wielenga <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Whatever it is you're trying to do here, please stop. :-) The NetBeans
>>>>
>>>>> module system and the Jigsaw module system are two totally different
>>>>> things
>>>>> and know nothing about each other. On the other hand, you're going to
>>>>> ignore this advice and go on ahead with whatever this is anyway, so
>>>>> bear
>>>>> in
>>>>> mind that the module info file is always found in exactly the same
>>>>> place,
>>>>> so you can simply provide a hard coded path to it, just like is done
>>>>> here
>>>>> for example, look for 'META-INF':
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/blob/master/
>>>>> java/java.source.base/src/org/netbeans/modules/java/source/
>>>>> parsing/CachingFileManager.java
>>>>>
>>>>> Gj
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 6:55 AM Peter Nabbefeld <[email protected]
>>>>> >
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>>> is there any way to read a module's layer.xml from ModuleInfo (or sth.
>>>>>> else in global lookup)?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kind regards
>>>>>> Peter
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