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Bug 344420

Summary:	Resource filter does not work on linked folder
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Deepak Azad <deepakazad>
Component:	Resources	Assignee:	Platform-Resources-Inbox <platform-resources-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, serge
Version:	3.6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Deepak Azad

2011-05-02 05:17:41 EDT

3.7 M7
- Create java project
- Create a linked src folder 'linkedsrc'

- Create a resource filter with following settings
  - Exclude All
  - Files and folders
  - All children
  - Name matches 'src'
=> 'src' folder is excluded - Good

- Create a resource filter with following settings
  - Exclude All
  - Files and folders
  - All children
  - Name matches 'linkedsrc'
=> nothing happens - BAD

Same behavior is 3.6

Comment 1 Dani Megert

2011-05-06 03:15:27 EDT

Looks like a general issue: it also doesn't work for a linked folder.

Comment 2 Serge Beauchamp

2011-05-06 03:24:26 EDT

This is not a bug, this is by design

As mentioned in the documentation:

"Resource filters only apply to files and/or folders that are implicitly included in the workspace by the refresh operation. Link files and folders are not affected by resource filters, since they need to be created explicitly by the user." 

The reason why that is, is because linked resources are explicitly created, as opposed to implicitly created by the refresh operation as ordinary resources are.

So if you want to exclude a linked resource, you don't need to setup complicated resource filters, you simply have to delete the linked resource.

Resource filters are designed to configure how the refresh operation implicitly create resources in the workspace.