Question

I am creating an IClasspathContainer that access an installed OSGi Bundle (Eclipse Plugin) withing eclipse. I get the IPath for the bundle by

    Bundle bundle = Platform.getBundle(pluginId);
    fullPath = FileLocator.getBundleFile(
    return Path.fromOSString(fullPath);bundle).getAbsolutePath();

However I also want to offer the sources if the source bundle is installed. The source bundle is named by eclipse e.g. for a plugin org.example.myplugin the source bundle is named org.example.myplugin.source.

Does anybody know how to access the source bundle?

Answer 1

There is no direct way to find an OSGi bundle by it’s symbolic name, but one can easily do that oneself by looping through all bundles.

    BundleContext bundleContext = FrameworkUtil.getBundle(this.getClass()).getBundleContext();
    String requestedName = bundleContext.getProperty(Constants.BUNDLE_SYMBOLICNAME) + ".source";
    Bundle sourceBundle = null;
    for(Bundle bundle : bundleContext.getBundles())
    {
        String name = bundle.getBundleContext().getProperty(Constants.BUNDLE_SYMBOLICNAME);
        if(name != null && name.equals(requestedName))
        {
            sourceBundle = bundle;
            break;
        }
    }

The location of the bundle can be accessed as:

        sourceBundle.getLocation();