| [dsdp-tm-dev] RE: FTP Listing Parser Extension Point |
This optional attribute determines the order in which subsystems appear in the New Connection wizard and RSE views. Integer values are allowed. Subsystems with lower number will appear first in the RSE tree. Subsystems that do not define the priority attribute will be appended last to the list of subsystems."
In FTPClientConfigFactory, you seem to be indexing parsers by their "label" attribute:
if(label.equals(parser))
This is dangerous IMHO since we
don't have a guarantee that multiple contributed parsers don't happen to have
the same labels. Also, in the PropertySet, parsers should be saved with ID In
order to allow multiple different translations access the same shared
configuration. I think you should better try and use the parser's ID as a key
rather than the label. For a possible implementation of indexing by label, see
the Proxy concept
below.
In IFTPClientConfigFactory getKeySet()
Javadoc seems to be wrong (refers to "name" attribute but returns "label"
attribute). I think that for type safety, the API should better return a
String[] list rather than an untyped Set. Or, even better yet, you should
define a new class for those items of the extension point that are
configurable without activating the extension:
public class
FTPClientConfigProxy {
public String
getId();
public String
getLabel();
public int
getPriority();
public String
getSystemTypeRegex();
public String
getClassName();
public Bundle
getDeclaringBundle();
Custom "dir" command: You are right that the FTP client translates this into a LIST command, but for VxWorks it needs to send "LIST -l" or the output is unusable. Perhaps other FTP servers are similar in the way that some attributes of the directory only get visible with certain options to the LIST command. Therefore, the parser should be associated with the corresponding command to be sent (and especially the options to be sent).
Don't get me wrong, I really like the code as it is now, and my comments are just to further optimize it.
If you have any questions, I'll happily answer.
Thanks,
--
Martin
Oberhuber
Wind River Systems, Inc.
Target Management Project Lead, DSDP
PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm
From: javier.montalvoorus@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:javier.montalvoorus@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 7:55 PM
To: Oberhuber, Martin
Cc: Target Management developer discussions
Subject: Re: FTP Listing Parser Extension Point
Hi,
I have submitted an improved version of the FTP parser, so now the contributed FTP parsers can contain a regular _expression_ and priority number that should match the contents of the reply of the SYST FTP command.
This improvement has been tested with the following servers:
OpenVMS (VMS)
Filezilla (UNIX)
Windows NT (WinNT)
Verifying that the correct parser was assigned using the regexp as well as when the correct parser was specified on the FTP Settings dialog.
Regards,
Javier Montalvo Orús
Development Tools
Symbian Software Limited.
"Oberhuber, Martin" <Martin.Oberhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 14/05/2007 14:13
<javier.montalvoorus@xxxxxxxxxxx> "Target Management developer discussions" <dsdp-tm-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx> FTP Listing Parser Extension Point
Hello Javier,
I noticed that you fixed the issues (1) and (2)
I raised for the FTP Listing Parser extension
point.
I'm wondering if you have any plans to also work
on issue (3) -- allowing contributed listing
parsers to take part in the autodetect?
What I'd like to see is the following optional
additional attributes for the extension point:
ftpSystemTypes = ".*VxWorks.*|.*VXWORKS.*"
specifying a regular _expression_ to match against
the result of the SYST command, such that the
parser would take part in autodetect only when
it matches;
ftpDirCommand = "dir -l"
an optional command string to send if the given
listing parser is active. Perhaps also a third one:
priority = "100"
giving a priority to know what parser should be
preferred if multiple parsers match the systemTypes
pattern and are thus candidates for autodetect.
If any of these optional attributes is not given,
the current behavior would be the default.
Even if the current implementation doesn't care
for these attributes in the first implementation,
I think I'd like to see these specified.
What do you think? What are your plans?
Thanks,
--
Martin Oberhuber
Wind River Systems, Inc.
Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm
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Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 4:00 PM
To: javier.montalvoorus@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Target Management developer discussions
Subject: [dsdp-tm-dev] FTP Listing Parser Extension Point
Hello Javier,
thanks for moving the FTP Listing Parser extension point
from Services to the Subsystem. Seeing the code, I'm
actually more convinced than ever that this was the
right move -- the dropdown and extension point handling
are now all nicely in one plugin.
There is just few concerns I still have:
1. Avoid early plugin activation for extensions.
2. Translatable label of the FTP Parser extension.
3. Autodetect.
As I have mentioned before, the AUTO special parser should
not be restricted to the preconfigured parsers only. User
contributed parsers should also be considered.
For doing that, I'd suggest that the extension has an
additional attribute "ftpSystemTypes" holding a regular
_expression_ to be matched against the result of the FTP
SYST command. If multiple parsers match, they should be
tried one after the other. An RSEDelegatingFtpListingParser
could do this work.
See my previous E-Mail comments that I sent you below for reference.
Thanks,
--
Martin Oberhuber
Wind River Systems, Inc.
Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm
________________________________
From: Oberhuber, Martin
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 6:10 PM
To: javier.montalvoorus@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Target Management developer discussions
Subject: New FTP Listing Parser Extension Point
Hello Javier,
two more considerations:
* We should avoid having to activate plugins which contribute FTP
parsers, just in order to check whether they are valid. Therefore, the
extension point should have another attribute "systemNames" which should
contain a regular _expression_ that needs to match the system name
reported by the remote side. If it matches, AUTO would activate the
plugin, instantiate the parser, and try that parser on that system.
Cheers,
Martin
Oberhuber, Martin schrieb:
Hello Javier,
I looked at your patch and it looks good to me.
I have no time right now to test it with VxWorks, but I'm
confident
that it will work fine. Your patch looks sizeable, so please go
ahead
and commit it.
What I would like to see going forward, is the ability that the
"AUTO" parser type also tries the various contributed parsers.
Right now, when I'm not mistaken, any extender-contributed
parser will only be used when explicitly selected by the user.
This is not user-friendly. We should allow extenders to
contribute
parsers, but the system should be able to select the contributed
parsers automatically wherever possible. In the simplest case,
the parser contribution could have an
boolean isValidFor(String systemType)
method that allows auto-selecting it based on the systemType
returned by the remote. In case multiple contributed parsers
return TRUE for isValidFor(), they could be tried one after the
other while parsing, until the first one is successful.
Thanks,
--
Martin Oberhuber
Wind River Systems, Inc.
Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm <http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm>
<http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm>
--
Martin Oberhuber
Wind River Systems, Inc.
Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm
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