In Eclipse, what is the most efficient way to determine whether two IPaths point to the same resource?
In Eclipse, what is the most efficient way to determine whether two IPath s
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In Eclipse, what is the most efficient way to determine whether two IPaths point to the same resource?
If you deal with local files, the simpliest way is to use method toFile() of IPath interface and then check the equality of files. This worked for me, and seems to be efficient enough.
But if you also have to take into account UNC pathes (i.e. //Server/Volume:/path), this would be a bit more difficult and there are open questuions. Assume, two pathes //Server/Volume:/path and //X.X.X.X/Volume/path (where X.X.X.X is IP-address of the Server). Do you need to treat them as equal?
In any case, you should write your own comparison function, which compares the result of segments() method and then does anything you want with getDevice().