I am making my own Eclipse plugin but ran into unexpected behavior.
When running Eclipse from Command Line:
$ cd /home/user/downloads;/home/user/eclipse/eclipse
And i call functionality which creates a new file outside the workspace:
new java.io.File("home/user/folder/file")
it will return a new file with the path:
/home/user/downloads/home/user/folder/file
So it adds the path of the change directory command when i started eclipse.
If this is intentionally how should i create my file?
There is no such class as java.net.File presumably you mean java.io.File
The path home/user/folder/file is a relative path - that is it is relative to the current directory whatever that may be. So if your current directory is /home/user/downloads the full file path will be /home/user/downloads/home/user/folder/file
If you don't want this to happen you must specify an absolute path - on Unix, Linux and Macs that is a path starting with / so
new java.io.File("/home/user/folder/file");
(note the leading /) will give you a file with that exact path.