[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-13599) externalize Central site URL into a commandline property so that testing or mirroring is easier

[Denis Golovin (JIRA)]

    [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-13599?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12759540#comment-12759540 ] 

Denis Golovin edited comment on JBIDE-13599 at 3/7/13 8:08 PM:
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[~maxandersen], [~snjeza] The recursive usecase is bupkis. All connectors in Central are pulled from the same URL (which is a composite site of various mirrors + JBT/JBDS core site + target platform). And before Max says that's not true, the exception to this rule is JRebel and Android, which have their own sites. But everything else comes from A SINGLE URL. There's no need for recursive replacements.

All we need is this:

{code:none|title=commandline override when testing a particular site}
-Djboss.central.site.url=http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/JBossTools-4.1.0.Alpha1c.core/
or
-Djboss.central.site.url=http://www.qa.jboss.com/binaries/RHDS/updates/development/7.0.0.Alpha1c.core/ 
{code}

{code:none|title=plugin.properties w/ default URL}
siteUrl=${jboss.central.site.url:http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/development/kepler/central/core/}
or
siteUrl=${jboss.central.site.url=https://devstudio.jboss.com/updates/7.0-development/central/core/}
{code}

{code:none|title=plugin.xml w/ variable}
siteUrl=%siteUrl
{code}

                
      was (Author: nickboldt):
    [~maxandersen], [~snjeza] The recursive usecase is bupkis. All connectors in Central are pulled from the same URL (which is a composite site of various mirrors + JBT/JBDS core site + target platform). And before Max says that's not true, the exception to this rule is JRebel and Android, which have their own sites. But everything else comes from A SINGLE URL. There's no need for recursive replacements.

All we need is this:

{code:commandline override when testing a particular site}
-Djboss.central.site.url=http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/JBossTools-4.1.0.Alpha1c.core/
or
-Djboss.central.site.url=http://www.qa.jboss.com/binaries/RHDS/updates/development/7.0.0.Alpha1c.core/ 
{code}

{code:plugin.properties w/ default URL}
siteUrl=${jboss.central.site.url:http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/development/kepler/central/core/}
or
siteUrl=${jboss.central.site.url=https://devstudio.jboss.com/updates/7.0-development/central/core/}
{code}

{code:plugin.xml w/ variable}
siteUrl=%siteUrl
{code}


                  
> externalize Central site URL into a commandline property so that testing or mirroring is easier
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBIDE-13599
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-13599
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: central
>    Affects Versions: 4.1.0.Alpha1
>            Reporter: Nick Boldt
>            Assignee: Snjezana Peco
>             Fix For: 4.1.0.Alpha2
>
>
> As discussed in https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-2469?focusedCommentId=12755106&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-12755106 testing Central is tricky if it's not properly bootstrapped, and bootstrapping is hard when we're on an early Alpha and don't want bits to be public before they've passed QE.
> A better approach than having the update site URL used in Central's discovery plugin.xml hardcoded into that file would be to have it read from a Preference in Eclipse or JBDS. This would allow it to be overwritten/overridden should a user want to test installation from a different URL than the default value. 
> This might even make it possible to have the same discovery plugin used for JBT and JBDS (assuming the list of connectors were the same, and certification was to appear for both instances) simply by having the preference changed to a different default URL when installing JBT or JBDS BYOE.

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