[p2-dev] IProfileUpdateRequest

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In the 3.6 planner, the API signature of the getProvisioningPlan method 
is this:

   public IProvisioningPlan getProvisioningPlan(IProfileChangeRequest 
profileChangeRequest, ProvisioningContext context, IProgressMonitor 
monitor);

The first param...i.e. profileChangeRequest has type 
IProfileChangeRequest.  But in the SimplePlanner implementation, 
however, is this code:

    public IProvisioningPlan getProvisioningPlan(IProfileChangeRequest 
request, ProvisioningContext context, IProgressMonitor monitor) {
       ProfileChangeRequest pcr = (ProfileChangeRequest) request;
      ...

Note that this first line of the getProvisioningPlan implementation 
requires that the request be of type ProfileChangeRequest...or 
subclass...and ProfileChangeRequest is a non-API class (at least in 
m6)...i.e.

org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.director.ProfileChangeRequest

meaning that other clients of the IPlanner (at least using the simple 
planner), must use ProfileChangeRequest to use the SimplePlanner.  Is 
this desired?

Thanks,

Scott