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Bug 369847

Summary: "Add Jars.." classpath action now lets you add anything you want
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Michael Rennie <Michael_Rennie>
Component: DebugAssignee: Platform-Debug-Inbox <platform-debug-inbox>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: robert.roth.off
Version: 3.8   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
Whiteboard: stalebug
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Description Michael Rennie CLA 2012-01-26 13:16:26 EST 
Created attachment 210140 [details]
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Version: 4.2.0
Build id: I20120125-2200

Steps:
1. new Java Application launch config
2. Classpath Tab -> select the "User Entries" node -> press "Add Jars..." button.
3. browse through your workspace in the resulting dialog and notice you can pick any resource you want
4. pick a random resource and hit OK
5. notice it gets added to your class path with a jar icon

This problem was apparently fixed back in bug 38115.

The attached screenshot shows me being able to add some JavaScript files as jars to my launch config
Comment 1 Michael Rennie CLA 2012-01-26 13:27:52 EST 
Looks like the action was "enhanced" with the fix for bug 228673
Comment 2 Robert Roth CLA 2015-03-21 03:39:09 EDT 
It might seem like that's a regression, but in fact an initialFilter of *.jar, *.zip should be set [1], but that doesn't happen in time, when simply running, however, when trying to debug the issue, and putting a breakpoint somewhere before and stepping through the code, when the dialog pops up, the initial filter is set.

So the idea to allow files with other extensions than zip and jar could work, if by default only these would show, but the user could also select other files by changing the filter text.

[1] http://git.eclipse.org/c/jdt/eclipse.jdt.ui.git/tree/org.eclipse.jdt.ui/ui/org/eclipse/jdt/ui/wizards/BuildPathDialogAccess.java#n428
Comment 3 Eclipse Genie CLA 2020-08-03 15:00:14 EDT 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug.

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