ScalarFunctionMultiPageEditor cannot be found by Plug-in

Question

This is a weird situation. I am creating a plug-in which utilizes the HANA SQL Editor for Functions .hdbscalarfunction . It uses the dependency: com.sap.ndb.studio.sqlscript.function . Now, when I try accessing the class ScalarFunctionMultiPageEditor it is not working due to access restrictions. I then tried editing the access restrictions by allowing access to the specific package for that class. However, I get a NoClassDefFoundError .

I then noticed in the plugin.xml of the com.sap.ndb.studio.sqlscript.function is that the package for ScalarFunctionMultiPageEditor is not exported, so this is not visible to anyone.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Answer 1

If the plugin does not export a package then you cannot use anything in the package. The Eclipse/OSGi classloaders enforce this and you can't work around it.