[p2-dev] Inconsistent behaviour between artifact and metadata factories

[Matthew Piggott <matthew-p2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I've done some work adding support for caching artifact repositories ( 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=274272 ) and discovered 
that there is inconsistent behaviour between how artifact & metadata 
factories handle the addresses passed to them.

If the SimpleArtifactRepositoryFactory is provided 
http://example.org/artifacts.xml it will look for repositories at:
http://example.org/artifacts.xml/artifacts.jar
http://example.org/artifacts.xml

However if the SimpleMetadataRepositoryFactory is provided 
http://example.org/content.xml it will look for repositories at:
http://example.org/content.xml/content.jar
http://example.org/content.xml/content.xml

As the URIs are created within the CacheManager I'd like to switch the 
behaviour in the artifact repository factories to avoid adding an 
alternate path to CacheManager.  Would anyone have a problem with this 
change?

Matthew