Eclipse PDE | Get all the Projects available in current Workspace

This post quickly describes how to get the list of projects available in the current Eclipse workspace. Eclipse PDE’s API provides the functionalities to query different meta-data relevant to the current Eclipse workspace. Using following code snippet, all the projects of the current workspace can be retrieved as an array of IProject …

Eclipse PDE’s API provides various functionalities to query different meta-data relevant to the currently active Eclipse workspace. Using following code snippet, all the projects of the current workspace can be retrieved as an array of IProject :

IProject[] allProjects = ResourcesPlugin.getWorkspace()
.getRoot()
.getProjects();
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Further processing on this array can be performed e.g., to filter only open projects, as follows :

for (IProject p : allProjects){
if(p.isOpen())
activeProjects.add(p);
}
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