[forge-dev] FSH and testing for installation of a plugin

[Jason Porter]

That may work. https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-569

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Perhaps the install plugin should accept a flag to ignore if already
> installed. Something like:
>
> forge install-plugin --skip-installed
>
> -Dan
>
>
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Jason Porter <lightguard.jp at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I want to install the plugin if it's not available.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:39 AM, Lincoln Baxter, III <
>> lincolnbaxter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm... you want to make sure that a plugin is installed in a FSH script.
>>> Good question...
>>>
>>> Do you need the plugin to be available, or just installed (and possible
>>> not available in the current context.) In reality, you probably really want
>>> to check for the availability of the command, yes?
>>>
>>> I know that the shell throws errors on failure, but I'm not sure there's
>>> really a good way to test for that in a FSH script without using a
>>> try-catch block somehow. (Try catch would probably work, though I'm not
>>> exactly sure what the syntax would look like (it depends on your script to
>>> some extent.))
>>>
>>> ~Lincoln
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Jason Porter <lightguard.jp at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Any idea how this could be done? I could do a forge list-plugins --all
>>>> and iterate over that list (I think), but there should be a better way. Any
>>>> suggestions?
>>>>
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