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Re: [p2-dev] Using p2 provisioning actions and touchpoints
I've got a Custom Touchpoint handler that I've munged together, it is used to execute a binary file that's attached to the plugin.

If you want to see the code for that I could put it up somewhere for you.

Deric.

On 12-07-30 01:13 PM, Taylor, Kristina wrote:

Awesome, thank you Christian, that worked.  I missed the part about escaping colons in the doc, but I see it now.

 

I have one other question.  What is the ${installFolder} that is referred to in a few places?  It says on the Eclipse reference page that it is the “root folder for this profile”, but I have no idea what that means.  Is this the plugin’s installed location in <eclipse root>/plugins/com.foo.whatever, or is it the Eclipse install root?  Is there a way to get access to any other variables, like the workspace location or anything like that?

 

Thanks!

Kristina

 

From: p2-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:p2-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bourgeois, Christian
Sent: July-30-12 10:14 AM
To: P2 developer discussions
Subject: Re: [p2-dev] Using p2 provisioning actions and touchpoints

 

Hi  Kristina,

 

You shouldn’t use quotes (") in your action arguments. In addition, if you have colon characters, they should be represented in their escaped format (${#58}) since that character is the key-value delimiter.

 

It should look like:

instructions.configure=unzip(source:C ${#58}/data/somefile.zip,target:C ${#58}/data/somedirectory);

 

Hope that helps,

Christian

 

 

 

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From: p2-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:p2-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Taylor, Kristina
Sent: 30 juillet 2012 09:49
To: p2-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [p2-dev] Using p2 provisioning actions and touchpoints

 

I’m trying to use the p2 provisioning actions and touchpoints on plugin install, but I can’t seem to get anything to happen (and no errors are being logged).

 

My goal is to be able to unzip a file somewhere (preferably a user-configurable location).  A nice-to-have would be to be able to run some additional java code afterwards.  The native touchpoint’s “unzip” provisioning action seemed like a great place to start, but I can’t work out how to get it to work.  Here’s my p2.inf (I figured I would start with hard-coded values, and work my way up from there):

 

instructions.configure=org.eclipse.equinox.p2.touchpoint.natives.unzip(source:"C:/data/somefile.zip",target:"C:/data/somedirectory");

 

Both locations already exist.  Am I missing something obvious, or maybe this just doesn’t work in Juno?  Do I need to also add anything to my plugin.xml or Manifest.mf?

 

I’ve read (and tried various things from) all of the following:

http://chamibuddhika.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/installing-configuration-files-with-p2-inf-feature-installation/

http://chamibuddhika.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/installation-of-folders-during-p2-provisioning-with-p2-inf/

http://help.eclipse.org/juno/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/p2_actions_touchpoints.html?cp=2_0_20_1_3

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6154367/a-working-example-of-custom-p2-provisioning-action

 

Since I couldn’t get the built-in ones to work, I figured I would try using the projects in the example, and after I fixed some compile issues due to changes in locations of classes, and added these plugins to a feature and an update site, again, nothing happens on install (I modified the code to log an error, then create a file somewhere, still nothing):

http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/39856/129768/#msg_129768

 

This is unrelated to this particular mailing list, but in reality, my end goal is to create a server adapter that is installable from a zip embedded in the plugin, but I want my server to be recognized as a Virgo server so that we can leverage the Virgo tooling.  It’s really virgo+some extras.

 

Kristina Taylor
Senior Software Development Engineer

Integrity Business Unit

 

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