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20050509 I assume a request that we soon wil get is to be able to add more than one native library to a classpath entry.
The current API for JavaRuntime.CLASSPATH_ATTR_LIBRARY_PATH_ENTRY supports multiple libraries per archive by allowing for more than one attribute with the same key. We believe we should change the API such that we do not use more than one attribute with the same key. JDT does not currerntly verify this restriction, but may want to. Thus, the API spec for CLASSPATH_ATTR_LIBRARY_PATH_ENTRY would need to be changed to this: /** * Attribute key for a classpath attribute containing to a comma separated * list of shared libraries that should appear on the * <code>-Djava.library.path</code> system property. * <p> * The value is a list of comma separated strings representing paths. Each * string is used to create an <code>IPath</code> using the constructor * <code>Path(String)</code>. A string used to construct a path may contain * <code>IStringVariable</code>'s. Variable substitution is performed on each * string before a path is constructed from a string. * </p> * <p> * If the resulting <code>IPath</code> is a relative path, it is interpretted * as relative to the workspace location. If the path is absolute, it is * interpretted as an absolute path in the local file system. * </p> * @since 3.1 * @see org.eclipse.jdt.core.IClasspathAttribute */
Comma might not be a good separator as it can occurr in names. '\0' might be a suggestion, but we would have to see how jdt.core handles that.
I filed bug 94404 for the specification update in JDT core.
Marking as M7 candidate.
Jim, we'd like to make this change for M7. It is an API change, but it is new 3.1 API as of 3.1M6, and JUI is the only known consumer of the API (as well as jdt.launching). Please see comment#1 for a description of the change. If you have a good suggestion for the user of a separator for file system paths, please advise.
approved for M7. I do not have any good suggestions for file system path separators.
Fixed. Modified spec for CLASSPATH_ATTR_LIBRARY_PATH_ENTRY and added two methods to JavaRuntime to encode/decode the attribute's value to/from strings. Updated tests as well. See #newLibraryPathsAttribute(String[]) and #getLibraryPaths(). The JUI needs to catch upto this change. There are no compliation errors, but the feature won't work until the proper encoding of the attribute is used.
Please verify, Kevin.
Re-opening to consider using "|" as separator.
Fixed, using "|" as separator. This means the current JUI still works (but needs to be enhanced to add multipe paths). Please verify, Kevin. (Changes to JavaRuntime).
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