Resource and workspace API

In Introduction to resources, we saw how resources are represented in the platform and how they map to files in the file system. Now that we have built several plug-ins for the platform, we look again at the resources API and how you can use it for additional functionality in your plug-in.

The resources API allows you to tag resources with special information, find out about changes to resources, implement specialized builders that perform transformations on resources, and save plug-in specific information along with a resource.

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