<change id="TreePathHandle-from-ElementHandle">

             <api name="general"/>

             <summary>TreePathHandle can be created from ElementHandle</summary>

             <version major="0" minor="78"/>

             <date day="26" month="4" year="2011"/>

             <author login="jlahoda"/>

             <compatibility addition="yes" binary="compatible" deletion="no" deprecation="no" modification="no" semantic="compatible" source="compatible"/>

             <description>

                 <code>TreePathHandle</code> has a new <code>from(ElementHandle)</code> method.

             </description>

             <class package="org.netbeans.api.java.source" name="TreePathHandle"/>

             <issue number="999999"/>

        </change>

    /**Constructs a <code>TreePathHandle</code> that corresponds to the given <code>ElementHandle</code>.

     *

     * @param handle an <code>ElementHandle</code> for which the <code>TreePathHandle</code> should be constructed

     * @param cpInfo a classpath which is supposed to contain the element described by given the <code>ElementHandle</code>

     * @return a newly constructed <code>TreePathHandle</code>

     * @since 0.78

     */

    public static @NonNull TreePathHandle from(@NonNull ElementHandle<?> handle, @NonNull ClasspathInfo cpInfo) {

        Parameters.notNull("handle", handle);

        Parameters.notNull("cpInfo", cpInfo);

        return new TreePathHandle(new ElementDelegate(handle, null, null, cpInfo));

    }

import com.sun.source.tree.MethodTree;

import javax.lang.model.element.Element;

    public void testFromElementHandle() throws Exception {

        FileObject file = FileUtil.createData(sourceRoot, "test/test.java");

        String code = "package test;\n" +

                      "public class Test {\n" +

                      "    public static void test() {\n" +

                      "    }\n" +

                      "}";

        writeIntoFile(file,code);

        JavaSource js = JavaSource.forFileObject(file);

        CompilationInfo info = SourceUtilsTestUtil.getCompilationInfo(js, Phase.RESOLVED);

        ClassTree clazz = (ClassTree) info.getCompilationUnit().getTypeDecls().get(0);

        MethodTree method = (MethodTree) clazz.getMembers().get(1);

        TreePath tp = TreePath.getPath(info.getCompilationUnit(), method);

        Element el = info.getTrees().getElement(tp);

        ElementHandle<?> elHandle = ElementHandle.create(el);

        TreePathHandle handle   = TreePathHandle.from(elHandle, info.getClasspathInfo());

        TreePath       resolved = handle.resolve(info);

        assertNotNull(resolved);

        assertTrue(tp.getLeaf() == resolved.getLeaf());

    }