Adds a public method to the metamodel package manager to load metamodels from an external package

git-svn-id: http://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/technology/org.eclipse.stem/trunk@3704 92a21009-5b66-0410-b83a-dc787c41c6e9

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/modelgen/org.eclipse.stem.model.transform/src/org/eclipse/stem/model/transform/MetamodelPackageManager.java b/modelgen/org.eclipse.stem.model.transform/src/org/eclipse/stem/model/transform/MetamodelPackageManager.java
index ac31b09ab..dee65f447 100644
--- a/modelgen/org.eclipse.stem.model.transform/src/org/eclipse/stem/model/transform/MetamodelPackageManager.java
+++ b/modelgen/org.eclipse.stem.model.transform/src/org/eclipse/stem/model/transform/MetamodelPackageManager.java
@@ -157,6 +157,20 @@ public class MetamodelPackageManager {
 
 		return null;
 	}
+	
+	/**
+	 * Loads an metamodel instance from the given IFIle
+	 * and return the instance.
+	 * @param file
+	 * @return
+	 * @throws IOException
+	 */
+	public Package load(IFile file) throws IOException
+	{
+		URI ecoreURI = URI.createPlatformResourceURI(file
+				.getFullPath().toString(), true);
+		return load(ecoreURI);
+	}
 
 	private Map<IProject, List<IFile>> groupFilesByProject(List<IFile> files) {
 		Map<IProject, List<IFile>> projectsMap = new HashMap<IProject, List<IFile>>();