Question

I have one lib/ folder inside my Eclipse Plugin Project and on this folder I have a little script… But when I run the ‘Eclipse Plugin Project’ I cannot execute that script because I cannot access to that folder…

How can I fix this?

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Thanks in advance

Answer 1

If you can execute the script by passing an InputStream or a String to the interpreter, put in the src/ folder, so it ends up on the classpath and use getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("script-name") to get an InputStream

If the interpreter is external (like bash or something that doesn’t implement the Java Scripting API), do the same. When you need to execute the script, create a stream and copy the script to a temporary file.

Keeping the script in lib/ is also a bad idea since the plugin will be assembled into a single JAR file unless you turn that off, so you will end up with a script file inside of a JAR – again something which most interpreters can’t use.

By using the classpath, you can let Eclipse figure out where the data is.