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Adding content to an extradir - Controlling the help index [message #475258]

Wed, 18 March 2009 17:23

Edoardo Comar

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Registered: July 2009

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If I 'dump' more documents inside an 'extradir'
directory of a help plugin,
they are not indexed unless I delete the index directory and restart
eclipse.

Is there a less brutal way of controlling the index, ie only force it to
be recreated for the extradir content ?

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Re: Adding content to an extradir - Controlling the help index [message #475260 is a reply to message #475258]

Wed, 18 March 2009 18:01

Chris Goldthorpe

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Registered: July 2009

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Yes, you can increment the version number of the plugin.

Edoardo Comar wrote:
> If I 'dump' more documents inside an 'extradir'
> directory of a help plugin,
> they are not indexed unless I delete the index directory and restart
> eclipse.
>
> Is there a less brutal way of controlling the index, ie only force it to
> be recreated for the extradir content ?

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Re: Adding content to an extradir - Controlling the help index [message #475417 is a reply to message #475260]

Thu, 19 March 2009 10:56

Edoardo Comar

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Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Thanks Chris,
but my idea was to leave the same plugin installed but having users dump
stuff in the extradir - and having the index recreated

can you please point me at the code that would do the trick of updating
the index by discarding the old extradir an adding the new one without
restaing the platform ?

I'd also be happy at writing code that process a given dir like it was
an extradir without it being limited to be a subdir of a help plugin.

Chris Goldthorpe wrote:
> Yes, you can increment the version number of the plugin.
>
> Edoardo Comar wrote:
>> If I 'dump' more documents inside an 'extradir'
>> directory of a help plugin,
>> they are not indexed unless I delete the index directory and restart
>> eclipse.
>>
>> Is there a less brutal way of controlling the index, ie only force it
>> to be recreated for the extradir content ?

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