Question

I’d like to write a plugin that does something with the currently edited file in Eclipse. But I’m not sure how to properly get the file’s full path.

This is what I do now:

IFile file = (IFile) window.getActivePage().getActiveEditor.getEditorInput().     getAdapter(IFile.class); 

Now I have an IFile object, and I can retrieve it’s path:

file.getFullPath().toOSString(); 

However this still only gives me the path relative to the workspace. How can I get the absolute path from that?

Answer 1

Looks like you want IResource.getRawLocation(). That returns an IPath, which also has a makeAbsolute() method if you want to be doubly sure you’ve got an absolute path.