Why Eclipse has ignored the .project file?

Question

I imported a java project in eclipse:

• In eclipse, the project name is shown as the directory name
• In '.project' file, the project name was overridden to a different name than the directory name

As far as I know, the name taken by eclipse should be the one stated in the '.project' file, not the project directory name. So I want to know why eclipse has ignored the .project file?

PS: '.project' file was generated by gradle eclipse task

Answer 1

The name in the .project files sets the name value in the IProjectDescription for the project (see IProject.getDescription()).

The name in the project description is used as the default for the project name while creating the project but the final name is always the last part of the project path.

The code for this is in org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Project