Eclipse Platform
Release 3.3

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Interface ILocationProvider


public interface ILocationProvider

This class gets the location for a given object.

In order to provided backward compatibility for clients of ILocationProvider, extension interfaces are used to provide a means of evolution. The following extension interfaces exist:

Since:
3.0
See Also:
ILocationProviderExtension

Method Summary
 IPath getPath(Object element)
          Returns the location of the given object or null.
 

Method Detail

getPath

public IPath getPath(Object element)
Returns the location of the given object or null.

The provided location is either a full path of a workspace resource or an absolute path in the local file system.

Parameters:
element - the object for which to get the location
Returns:
the location of the given object or null

Eclipse Platform
Release 3.3

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