Access restriction to com.adobe.flexbuilder.codemodel library

[laurent-d]

I have Flash Builder 4 Standard installed in Eclipse 3.6.

I am writing an Eclipse plugin where I need to access the Flex project properties so I do something like this:

    import com.adobe.flexbuilder.codemodel.common.CMFactory;

    import com.adobe.flexbuilder.codemodel.project.*;

...

    IProject flexProject = CMFactory.getManager().getProjectFor(myEclipseProject);

I get this compilation error:

Access restriction: The method getProjectFor(IProject) from the type IEclipseProjectManager is not accessible due to restriction on required library C:\Program Files\Adobe \Adobe Flash Builder 4 Plug-in\eclipse\plugins\com.adobe.flexbuilder.codemodel_4.0.0.272416\codemodel.jar

Notes:

- If I turned it into a Warning I get a runtime exception: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/adobe/flexbuilder/codemodel/project/IEclipseProjectManager

- The plugin com.adobe.flexbuilder.codemodel_4.0.0.272416 is correctly imported in my project.

What does this Access restriction mean?

Why can't I access the Flex SDK for my licensed version of Flash Builder?

Thanks!

--Laurent

[Sameer Bhatt]

In your plugin, have you added a dependency to the com.adobe.flexbuilder.codemodel plugin?

If not, can you add the dependency and try?

[laurent-d]

Yes, I have added the dependency to com.adobe.flexbuilder.codemodel.  The problem is with the "Access restriction" error, where can this come from?

Thanks.

[Guest]

Hi Laurent,

We are unable to reproduce this issue locally. Can you please provide more detailed reproducible steps? May be there is some step that we are missing here.

-radhakrishna

[laurent-d]

Here are steps to reproduce my problem:

1) From Eclipse File > New menu select "Plug-in Project"

2) Enter a project name, leave other options as-is

3) In the "Content" page of the wizard leave all fields as-is  (Yes for Generate activator and this plug-in will make contribution to the UI.  No for Rich Client application)

4) In the "Templates" page, select "Plug-in with a Popup menu"

5) This generates the project with a NewAction.java class.

Then modify NewAction.java as shown in the code sample below.

1) The "selectionChanged" method sets the _selectedProject variable.

2) The "run" method tries to get the flexProject information from the selected project

=> The import of CMFactory gives me an Access Restriction error "The type CMFactory is not accessible due to restriction on required library D:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder 4 Plug-in\eclipse\plugins\com.adobe.flexbuilder.codemodel_4.0.0.272416\codemodel.jar

What restriction is this about?

How can one import the flexbuilder libraries in order to get information on the flex projects in this case?

Thanks!

--Laurent

import com.adobe.flexbuilder.codemodel.common.CMFactory;

import com.adobe.flexbuilder.codemodel.project.*;

public class NewAction implements IObjectActionDelegate {

private Shell shell;

private IProject _selectedProject;

...

public void run(IAction action) {

           // get the flexProject information

   IProject flexProject = CMFactory.getManager().getProjectFor(_selectedProject);

           ...

}

public void selectionChanged(IAction action, ISelection selection) {

          _selectedProject = null;

          boolean enabled = false;

          if (selection instanceof IStructuredSelection) {

            Object obj = ((IStructuredSelection) selection).getFirstElement();

            if (obj instanceof IProject) {

               IProject proj = (IProject)obj;

               if (proj.isOpen()) {

                  enabled = true;

                  _selectedProject = proj;

               }

            }

         }

         action.setEnabled(enabled);

       }

[Guruprasad_G_V]

How did you add the dependency to codemodel.jar? Adding it into "java build path" won't be the way to do it for a plugin dependecy. You could create another plugin - "plugin from existing jar" and add codemodel.jar there and then in your plugin.xml you could add the first plugin as a required plugin in the dependency tab.

May be this helps : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1227425/how-can-i-add-the-external-jar-to-the-eclipse-rcp-application

[laurent-d]

> How did you add the dependency to codemodel.jar?

I edited the plug-in dependencies (plugin.xml file).  It is found correctly so it's not the issue.

The problem is the Access Restriction error.  Why do you think this is happening?

[laurent-d]

Has anyone seen this kind of Access Restriction error on a Flex library?

[Guruprasad_G_V]

Attached is a plugin that is able to access codemodel libraries - and not thowing the error you are mentioning. You could cross check your configurations with this.

[laurent-d]

Thanks for sending this sample code.  I finally figured out that the error had nothing to do with "unauthorized access to com.adobe.flexbuilder.codemodel"... it was due to the fact that this bundle was both in the "Require-bundle" and "Import-Package" section of my plugin's MANIFEST.MF file.