Hiding a file from Eclipse

[Roedy Green]

It is possible to tell Eclipse that I want to examine or edit a piece
of non-working Java code without it trying to compile it?

Or do I need an auxiliary editor to do that I cut and paste from?

I might later change my mind at turn it back on, but for now I don't
want to deal with errors in that code.

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[Roedy Green]

It is possible to tell Eclipse that I want to examine or edit a piece
of non-working Java code without it trying to compile it?

I told the build to ignore it, but the incremental compile is still on
my case about it.

--
Bush crime family lost/embezzled $3 trillion from Pentagon.
Complicit Bush-friendly media keeps mum. Rumsfeld confesses on video.
http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/mckinney_grills_rumsfeld.htm

Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green.
See http://mindprod.com/iraq.html photos of Bush's war crimes

 

[Tim Tyler]

I told the build to ignore it, but the incremental compile is still on
my case about it.

Use a "source" directory - and stick it *outside* that directory.

 

[Dale King]

Use a "source" directory - and stick it *outside* that directory.

Or keep it in the source directory and set an exclusion filter to
exclude it.

I have a slight variation on that problem that I don't know how to
solve. I have some source files that are used in unit testing that I
don't want compiled, but I do want the actual source file to be
considered a "resource" so that source file gets put in the output
folder and in a jar.

 

[Tim Tyler]

I have a slight variation on that problem that I don't know how to
solve. I have some source files that are used in unit testing that I
don't want compiled, but I do want the actual source file to be
considered a "resource" so that source file gets put in the output
folder and in a jar.

Maybe you can get away with using a different extension for them.

That's about all I can think of trying.

 

[Dale King]

Maybe you can get away with using a different extension for them.

That's about all I can think of trying.

In this case I am not in control of the source. The project was
Checkstyle and I wanted to write some patches for new features and
fixing some bugs and run the unit tests in Eclipse (without resorting to
Ant). The unit tests have source files for running the unit tests of the
checks on. We don't want those source files compiled but they need to be
available to the unit tests.

Actually researching it a bit for this response, I see that the unit
tests actually don't rely on the test inputs being in the classpath and
accessing them using getResource. They actually have to be in the file
system and you set a system property with the path.

So I guess in this case I don't need it, but the general problem
remains. Consider if I wanted to do something like the SwingSet app does
where the application can display source code. You would like that
source code to be in the jar.

If you are control of the source giving it a different extension would e
the easiest way to go.