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How do i find the project of the contents of an ITextViewer?

I'm trying to implement a HyperlinkDetector for an Eclipse plug-in and the callback method is giving me an ITextViewer to work with.

How do i get the project, IPath or IFile of the viewer's IDocument?
Apparently the concept of an IDocument is to only allow access to the content regardless of the source. All i can come up with is to check the active editor part in the workbench...

Since it's Java code i'm working on, the actual type is a JavaSourceViewer if that helps.

Solution

  • After looking at the article Abstract Syntax Tree, may be you could look for the right path by asking the ITextFileBufferManager 

    ITextFileBufferManager bufferManager = FileBuffers.getTextFileBufferManager(); // get the buffer manager

    Use then getTextFileBuffer()

     ITextFileBuffer getTextFileBuffer(IDocument document);

    If you get a ITextFileBuffer, you can call on it getLocation() and get back its IPath.