[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-7379) Importing / Exporting of AS servers ignore command line args, filesets, xpaths, and even runtimes

[Rob Stryker (JIRA)]

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Rob Stryker commented on JBIDE-7379:
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> The upshot of this is that with your API only expecting to export server configuration, only the Teiid server configuration would be exportable. However, Teiid also has file artefacts, stored in other parts of the workspace which need a separate storage unit (not implemented yet).

The API I wrote completely allows any import / export participant to add an arbitrary number of files to the resultant archive.  I didn't add them yet, but I have two additional files I'd like to be adding for JBoss AS / wildfly servers. They would just be contributed in a higher-level plugin of mine so I didn't get around to do it yet. 

I think it's reasonable to expect a specific archive format for our import/export, and I think a zip / jar is a reasonable decision. So I think this is a fair assumption that I'd like to keep. 

I think  you'll find you can actually add any number of files to the jar. It is *not* limited to server configuration / runtime / launch.  You can add anything you want at any path you want. Of course if there's any changes you'd like to suggest, I'd be willing to hear.

 I already have the import / export actions with some minimal UI but I had planned to enable a more fully-featured UI eventually... so some discussion on what type of UI we'd like for the import could be useful. 



> Importing / Exporting of AS servers ignore command line args, filesets, xpaths, and even runtimes
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>                 Key: JBIDE-7379
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-7379
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: server
>    Affects Versions: 3.2.0.Beta1
>            Reporter: Rob Stryker
>            Assignee: Paul Richardson
>             Fix For: 4.3.x
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> Exporting of servers is incomplete. It does not export any saved filesets, xpaths, or custom launch configuration args. 
> Importing of servers is also incomplete, not importing any of these elements. Also, while the servers themselves are imported, sometimes their runtimes are not created at all, and you get a server with no runtime. This has been very hard to track down, but no runtimeAdded event is ever fired, and in our code it looks as if they're not even created or looked for. 
> This needs to be re-visited and tested extensively. I expect I will move import / export functionality into the AS plugin for now since hte o.j.t.runtime plugin already depends on AS. This will allow me to use classes already in the AS test suite for filesets and xpaths properly. I will keep the handler in the runtimes plugin but merely have it delegate to the functionality stored in the as plugin. 
> It currently seems to be saving only servers and not the runtimes. 



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