Eclipse PDE : Programmatically read the contents of the target platform

Question

In my application, the target platform is set to contain some of my custom plugins apart from the eclipse plugins. During the application's usage, I want to check the contents of the target platform against an installed folder which is supposed to contain my custom plugins.

Effectively, I would like to get a list of all the bundles in the target platform (Eclipse plugins + my custom plugins).

I have tried using getBundleContext() in both ResourcesPlugin and PDEPlugin but that returns only the eclipse bas plugins and not my custom plugins.

Answer 1

ITargetPlatformService service = PDECore.getDefault().acquireService(ITargetPlatformService.class);
            for (TargetBundle targetBundle: service.getWorkspaceTargetDefinition().getBundles()) {
//then get name of plugin via targetBundle.getBundleInfo().getSymbolicName()
}

The problem with this code is that you get a warning similar to: Discouraged access: The type 'PDECore' is not API (restriction on required library '...\\eclipse-rcp-photon-R-win32-x86_64\\plugins\\org.eclipse.pde.core_3.12.0.v20180516-1159.jar')