Copy Resources from Eclipse Plug-in to Local File System

If we need to read a resource from an eclipse plugin and want to save it to local file system we can use following code :

Following code will copy basicTemplate.diagram to local-file system:


private void copyTemplateToLocalDirectory() {

URI diagramTemplateFileUri = URI.createPlatformPluginURI(
"/dk.bording.viking.rcp.ui.till.editor/templates/basicTemplate.diagram", true);

URIConverter uriConverter = new ExtensibleURIConverterImpl();
try {

InputStream infile =  uriConverter.createInputStream(diagramTemplateFileUri);
FileOutputStream file = new FileOutputStream( new File(Platform.getInstanceLocation().getURL().getPath()+File.separator+NewFileName.diagram"));
file.write(ByteStreams.toByteArray(infile));
file.close();

} catch (IOException e1) {

e1.printStackTrace();
}

}