[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-10401) externalize URL for Central directory.xml file so it can be passed in via commandline when building or at runtime

[Nick Boldt (Created) (JIRA)]

externalize URL for Central directory.xml file so it can be passed in via commandline when building or at runtime 
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                 Key: JBIDE-10401
                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-10401
             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Build/Releng, central, updatesite
    Affects Versions: 3.3.0.M5
            Reporter: Nick Boldt
            Assignee: Nick Boldt


1. Need to replace hardcoded variable

{code}
        private static final String JBOSS_DISCOVERY_DIRECTORY_3_3_0_XML = "http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/nightly/core/trunk/jbosstools-directory.xml"; // published URL
{code}

with value in plugin.properties. This will allow the plugin to be "fixed" when releasing it to point at a different URL.

2. Need to allow passing in the URL as a commandline variable at build-time so that we can have the same code overridden when built in stable branch for a milestone vs. in trunk.

This could be done via Maven calling Ant in the pom.xml to do a simple XSLT on the build.properties file. (If you can't figure out another way, assign this part to me and I'll do this -- already have 80% of the code for such a transform in place.) This would allow overrides to be set in the parent/pom.xml or via commandline -D flags.

3. We could also set 4 variables in the plugin.properties file (for the 4 possible URLs) and have the -D flag be a simple switch between GA, milestone, nightly stable, and nightly trunk, without having to actually state the URL via the commandline.



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