DevFaqGetNameOfProjectGroup
How to get the name of the active project group
Variant I: "use OpenProjects API" (since NB7.3)
org.netbeans.api.project.ui.OpenProjects.getDefault().getActiveProjectGroup().getName()
This approach uses a public API which is known to be stable for future versions. Since 7.3.
Variant II: "direct access to properties"-hack
Note: this is rather a hack. It is not guaranteed that this will work for newer NetBeans versions. But this approach is known to work at least with NB 6.9.1 to 7.3.
/**
*
* @return name of the current project group or null
*/
public String getActiveProjectGroup() {
Preferences groupNode = getPreferences("org/netbeans/modules/projectui/groups");
if (null != groupNode) {
final String groupId = groupNode.get("active", null);
if (null != groupId) {
final Preferences groupPref = getPreferences("org/netbeans/modules/projectui/groups/" + groupId);
if (null != groupPref) {
final String activeProjectGroup = groupPref.get("name", null);
return activeProjectGroup;
}
}
}
return null;
}
/**
* Get the preference for the given node path.
*
* @param path configuration path like "org/netbeans/modules/projectui"
* @return {@link Preferences} or null
*/
private Preferences getPreferences(String path) {
try {
if (NbPreferences.root().nodeExists(path)) {
return NbPreferences.root().node(path);
}
} catch (BackingStoreException ex) {
Exceptions.printStackTrace(ex);
}
return null;
}
