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Re: [virgo-dev] Building a custom artifact deployer

I've raised a Bugzilla issue:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=320721

/Peter

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Glyn Normington <gnormington@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks Dmitry. Please could you add any information that might be useful to Peter's bug (when he's raised it).
>
> Glyn
> On 23 Jul 2010, at 12:19, Dmitry Sklyut wrote:
>
>> This is the same issue that I found a while back. Transformers just cast to abstract artifacts in some cases.
>>
>> I think there were a few more interfaces that are fairly central for processing and used by public interfaces but are not exported
>>
>> I will find those references today
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Jul 23, 2010, at 4:45, Peter Gardfjäll <peter.gardfjell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Glyn,
>>>
>>> I've started experimenting with a custom deployer and I've just bumped
>>> into a stumbling block.
>>> It appears to me that an InstallArtifact is required to inherit from
>>> AbstractInstallArtifact, at least judging by the exception thrown
>>> shortly after my InstallArtifactTreeFactory has produced an
>>> InstallArtifact (see stacktrace below).
>>> I have only had a brief look at the AbstractInstallArtifact class and
>>> seems to contain lots of logic. I'm not sure I would be comfortable
>>> just extending it.
>>> I'm getting a feeling that some code (VisitationStage?) is making too
>>> many assumptions about the InstallArtifacts it operates on.
>>> Should a bug be raised?
>>>
>>> java.lang.ClassCastException:
>>> org.eclipse.virgo.zipdeployer.internal.ZipInstallArtifact cannot be
>>> cast to org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.install.artifact.internal.AbstractInstallArtifact
>>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.deployer.core.internal.Plumber$1.operate(Plumber.java:99)
>>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.install.pipeline.stage.visit.internal.VisitationStage.doProcessNode(VisitationStage.java:51)
>>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.install.pipeline.stage.AbstractPipelineStage.doProcessTree(AbstractPipelineStage.java:68)
>>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.install.pipeline.stage.visit.internal.VisitationStage.doProcessTree(VisitationStage.java:58)
>>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.install.pipeline.stage.AbstractPipelineStage.process(AbstractPipelineStage.java:41)
>>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.install.pipeline.internal.StandardPipeline.doProcessTree(StandardPipeline.java:62)
>>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.install.pipeline.stage.AbstractPipelineStage.process(AbstractPipelineStage.java:41)
>>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.deployer.core.internal.PipelinedApplicationDeployer.driveInstallPipeline(PipelinedApplicationDeployer.java:268)
>>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.deployer.core.internal.PipelinedApplicationDeployer.doInstall(PipelinedApplicationDeployer.java:151)
>>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.deployer.core.internal.PipelinedApplicationDeployer.install(PipelinedApplicationDeployer.java:123)
>>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.deployer.core.internal.PipelinedApplicationDeployer.deploy(PipelinedApplicationDeployer.java:187)
>>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.deployer.hot.HotDeploymentFileSystemListener.deploy(HotDeploymentFileSystemListener.java:174)
>>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.deployer.hot.HotDeploymentFileSystemListener.onChange(HotDeploymentFileSystemListener.java:78)
>>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.util.io.FileSystemChecker.notifyListeners(FileSystemChecker.java:245)
>>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.util.io.FileSystemChecker.check(FileSystemChecker.java:166)
>>>       at org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.deployer.hot.WatchTask.run(WatchTask.java:58)
>>>       at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
>>>
>>> best regards, Peter
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Glyn Normington
>>> <gnormington@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Hi Peter
>>>>
>>>> Ok, thanks. I've raised:
>>>>
>>>> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=320368
>>>>
>>>> to promote ArtifactStorage to an exported package.
>>>>
>>>> Glyn
>>>> On 20 Jul 2010, at 09:52, Peter Gardfjäll wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Glyn,
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess I could make an attempt to write a sample custom deployer. I
>>>>> don't have a toy example for Virgo yet.
>>>>> What I have written, as part of another project, is code for
>>>>> atomically deploying/starting/undeploying zip files containing bundle
>>>>> jars (a "poor man's PAR" without scoping, pulling in dependencies,
>>>>> etc).
>>>>> I could try to adapt that code to the Virgo deployment interfaces.
>>>>> I am currently on vacation so I can't give you a time frame yet.
>>>>>
>>>>> The first step is to make sure all classes/interfaces that are to be
>>>>> exposed in the public API are promoted to exported packages.
>>>>> I'm not sure if ArtifactStorage is the only missing link here, but a
>>>>> start would be to promote it and notify me when its done. Then I could
>>>>> have a new go at it. When I have some working code I'll put it on
>>>>> github.
>>>>>
>>>>> best regards, Peter
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Glyn Normington <gnormington@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Peter
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, InstallArtifactTreeFactory obeys the whiteboard pattern and the deployer will pick up any that are registered.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Your right that the ArtifactStorage interface needs promoting to an exported package to be usable by 3rd parties.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It would be good to collaborate on a toy example and then make that available as a Virgo sample. Compare [1].
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would you be interested in stripping down what you are doing into a toy and, with my and possibly others' help, getting that going with Virgo with a view to contributing it as a sample? (I guess the best way would be to create a small project on github that I could then directly access rather than sending zips around, but you can call the shots here.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Glyn
>>>>>> [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=315867
>>>>>> On 9 Jul 2010, at 15:21, Peter Gardfjäll wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> as far as I can tell part of writing a custom artifact deployer for
>>>>>>> Virgo is to register an InstallArtifactTreeFactory in the OSGi service
>>>>>>> registry.
>>>>>>> I assume that all such factories get picked up by the Virgo runtime.
>>>>>>> Am I right so far...?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If that is indeed the correct approach, one apparent problem that
>>>>>>> strikes me is that the ArtifactStorage interface, which is a parameter
>>>>>>> of the InstallArtifactTreeFactory.constructInstallArtifactTree method,
>>>>>>> is internal to the org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.deployer bundle (that is,
>>>>>>> its package is not exported).
>>>>>>> This makes it impossible for me to write a bundle with a custom tree factory.
>>>>>>> Maybe some restructuring is required to simplify the development of
>>>>>>> additional deployers?
>>>>>>> What are your thoughts?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> best regards, Peter
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