Question

this is not really a problem I have, but more a question about good practice.

I want to resolve a URL of a File of my eclipse plugin, but there are many ways which work. I could not find anything about which one should be preferred.

First of all: how should I obtain my bundle? Through the Activator or the Platform?

Bundle bundle = Platform.getBundle("my.bundle.id");

or

Bundle bundle = Activator.getDefault().getBundle();

The other question is how to get the url. Either with

URL url = FileLocator.find(bundle, new Path("folder/file.txt"), null);

or

URL url = bundle.getEntry("folder/file.txt");

All of this works, but which way is the best? Does it even make a difference?

Answer 1

No it doesn’t make any difference (actually FileLocator uses bundle.getEntry). The advantage is of using bundle.getEntry is that you don’t have a dependency to an eclipse-bundle; I don’t know if that fact is relevant for you.

I’m always using the FileLocator method in RCPs but using the openStream method to read the contents of files within bundles.