ILocationProvider (Eclipse Platform API Specification)

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public interface ILocationProvider
```
This class gets the location for a given object.
In order to provided backward compatibility for clients of ILocationProvider, extension interfaces are used to provide a means of evolution. The following extension interfaces exist:
- ILocationProviderExtension since version 3.3 allowing to get the location as URI.
Since:

3.0

See Also:

ILocationProviderExtension

- Method Summary
  
  All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
  Modifier and Type Method Description
  
  IPath getPath(Object element)
  Returns the location of the given object or null.

- Method Detail
  - getPath
```
IPath getPath(Object element)
```
    Returns the location of the given object or null.
    The provided location is either a full path of a workspace resource or an absolute path in the local file system.
    
    Parameters:
    
    element - the object for which to get the location
    
    Returns:
    
    the location of the given object or null