Eclipse: find resource on classpath

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Eclipse: find resource on classpath

Is there a way in eclipse to search the classpath for arbitrary resource file names (or patterns)?

I know I can use either

Navigate > Open Type

(which will scan the classpath for classes) or

Navigate > Open Resource,

which will search for any resource type, but only in my project folders. Is there any way to achieve a combination ob both, to do a resource search (something like *.xsd) that searches all jars on the classpath?

Which Version are you using?

Because when I open the search-menu (Java-Search), I could choose, which space should be searched, whether the hole workspace or including all JRE-Libraries. Think, it should work for you.

2010-06-08 10:17:48

I use a Galileo distribution, so I am current. java search only searches for types and members (e.g. field names, method names), not resources.

seanizer 2010-06-08 10:25:45

I mainly meant your version, e.g. 3.5, but maybe it´s not that necessary. Try the "Remote Search" on your Work-Dir with options for "archive files" and "subfolders" on. It lasts a bit long (2-3 min, depends on your work-dir), but the result should fit your expectation. :)

2010-06-08 11:03:46

Galileo is 3.5. I'll check this Soon,thanks

seanizer 2010-06-08 11:13:58

ok, this is a directory scanner. the problem is: the jars are not in the project dir, they are in my local maven repo (and there are tons of jars in there)

seanizer 2010-06-08 11:41:06

And there are too many jars, you are not interested in, but also to many interisting jars, that you don´t want to choose them by hand!?Except for plugins (that I don´t know) the only given thing, which could help you, may be the e.g. File Search, but using a built "Working set", where you could collect all the classes and jars, you want to be searched.Do you need this searching often?

2010-06-08 12:11:05

yes, I have projects with many dependencies, and they often include an XSD or a properties file somewhere that I'd like to find. obviously I can search them myself (that's what I did in this particular case) but this happens about twice a week and I find it rather annoying to search through 10 - 20 jars manually. but I think there is no solution

seanizer 2010-06-08 12:52:40

Yes, there is a solution, but we didn´t found it yet. I think, there are even small application, which serve exactly your needs, if there isn´t a fitting eclipse-plugin, which I can´t imagine..

2010-06-08 13:04:38

+1 A:

The classpath helper plugin is at least a starting point. Looks like it doesn't provide a search but it seems to list all entries on the classpath.

I don't know if your fit and willing to modify it but it should provide the basic code to add some filename-based search on top.

Andreas_D 2010-06-09 17:53:01

well this is definitely an interesting plugin. I'll certainly have a look at that. Danke :-)

seanizer 2010-06-09 20:17:24

Andreas_D 2010-06-09 20:45:39

I'll mark this as the correct answer because I think there is no 100% correct answer out of the box

seanizer 2010-06-15 11:36:29

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