Re: [p2-dev] Re: Question about artifact mirroring

[Pascal Rapicault <Pascal_Rapicault@xxxxxxxxxx>]

What you are suggesting has been mentioned in the past as a way to reduce the bandwidth necessary to mirror. However I personally disagree with doing this automatically because the processing step introduces another point of variability that could be the source of problems (for example imagine that the unpacker you use when you mirror has a bug that can't be found until runtime).
If this is enabled, it has to be done through an explicit end user decision.

Also the other thing to be careful is to not create artifacts that were not in the original repo (e.g. maybe the original repo does not have the canonical artifact for a given plug-in).

PaScaL

Thomas Hallgren ---04/13/2009 11:03:12 AM---After some research I concluded that there was no shrink-wrapped way of doing this. So I created a

From:	Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>
To:	P2 developer discussions <p2-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	04/13/2009 11:03 AM
Subject:	[p2-dev] Re: Question about artifact mirroring

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After some research I concluded that there was no shrink-wrapped way of 
doing this. So I created a new class:

public class CanonicalizeRequest extends MirrorRequest {
    private IArtifactDescriptor optimizedDescriptor;
    private IArtifactDescriptor canonicalDescriptor;

    public CanonicalizeRequest(IArtifactDescriptor optimizedDescriptor, 
IArtifactDescriptor canonicalDescriptor,
            IArtifactRepository targetRepository) {
        super(canonicalDescriptor.getArtifactKey(), targetRepository, 
null, null);
        this.optimizedDescriptor = optimizedDescriptor;
        this.canonicalDescriptor = canonicalDescriptor;
        setSourceRepository(targetRepository);
    }

    public void perform(IProgressMonitor monitor) {
        setResult(transfer(canonicalDescriptor, optimizedDescriptor, 
monitor));
    }
}

The mirroring is done by first using a RawMirrorRequest on the optimized 
descriptor, and then using CanonicalizeRequest to unpack (source and 
destination both pointing to the target repo). It seems to work well. 
Perhaps something to consider as a more generic feature for a mirroring 
application?

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren

Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> Let's assume that I have a remote repository that contains two 
> descriptors per artifact key, one optimized (pack200) and one 
> canonical. I want to mirror this repository to another that later also 
> will be deployed as a remote repository. How do I create a mirror that 
> contains both the optimized and the canonical files? Copying both from 
> a remote location using a RawMirrorRequest doesn't seem very optimal 
> and using a standard MirrorRequest will transfer the optimized version 
> but only store the canonical.
>
> What I would like the mirror request to do is:
> 1. Copy the optimized version over the wire.
> 2. Store the optimized version verbatim.
> 3. Recreate the canonical version from the optimized one and store 
> that too.
>
> Has this use-case been considered?
>
> Regards,
> Thomas Hallgren
>
>
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