eclipse workspace .location file format

Question

I need a way to get the directory path of an eclipse project by deserializining the .location file found in the eclipe workspace at:

.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources.projects\myproject\.location

Its contents look something like: @±‹#¼ %–ç£“¾ URI//file:/D:/proj/myproject ÀXûó#¼ QóŒ{»wÆ

so I would like to programmatically get the "D:/proj/myproject" string out of it.

Bonus points if the process doesn't use the Eclipse API.

goto eclipse.org and find the code that writes that file. – DwB Feb 26 '16 at 11:42 — DwB, Feb 26 '16 at 11:42

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 26 '16 at 12:23

Eclipse read this file in the method LocalMetaArea.readPrivateDescription(..).

It uses a SafeChunkyInputStream and DataInputStream for reading it. It contains UTF8 strings and some integers.

For the complete code see

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