[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-16375) Allow to extend Central extensions catalog with "Beta" stuff

[Mickael Istria (JIRA)]

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Mickael Istria commented on JBIDE-16375:
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I had a look at the API, and it appears that connectorId is unique, but it is totally possible to get p2 metadata for the associated site to find out which version p2 will most likely install.
However, we definitely need to go one grain finer than what's provided by discovery APIs. Current APIs don't allow the same p2 site to contain mutliple version of a connector and to choose one.

Do we want a SAME REPOSITORY to contain both "supported" and "experimental" stuff, or can we say that both will always be separated ? The second is easier as we won't need to rely much on versions and we can improve it with the grain of discovery API.
Anyway, installing a connector just with its id sounds very weak for our use-cases (updated, multiple versions...). I have the feeling we'll have to make p2 resolution manually and directly use p2 to achieve that and make sure what will happen is what was asked by user.

                
> Allow to extend Central extensions catalog with "Beta" stuff
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>                 Key: JBIDE-16375
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-16375
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: central, discovery
>            Reporter: Mickael Istria
>             Fix For: 4.2.0.Beta2
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> In order to make it easier for people to consume some "Beta" extensions from JBT or JBDS release (such as installing a Beta of JBT-IS on top of a JBT release), it would make sense to have Central allow users to select some catalogs in a UI entry such as "Include Experimental stuff" to show additional catalog entries.
> Either this could be a single catalog with the experimental content being annotated, or it could be 2 (or more catalogs) which have different quality levels.
> The Central UI will need to give feedback on the quality level for a given entry ("supported" or "experimental" or ...).

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