RE: [mylar-dev] Connector Tutorial

["Mik Kersten" <beatmik@xxxxxxx>]

John,

I just took a quick glance at your tutorial and it looks great.  It would be
very helpful if you could incorporate this material into our Integrator
Reference.  I find the screenshots that you added helpful and suggest
including those as well.  Don't worry about making the document too long, we
can make it a separate wiki page if that happens.  But do try to keep the
content concise and fit it into the current section in order to make it easy
to continue to evolve.

Regarding the example plug-ins, we would love to get that as a contribution.
If you are interested please see the following bug:

170894: Create a simple example on how to create a task repository.
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=170894

Mik

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mylar-dev-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eugene Kuleshov
> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 11:27 PM
> To: Mylar developer discussions
> Subject: Re: [mylar-dev] Connector Tutorial
> 
> John Vliet wrote:
> > I have been looking into creating mylar connectors for our project
> > wiki (on jotspot.com <http://jotspot.com>) and for PVCS Tracker.
> While
> > doing so I have found the documentation quite sparse. I looked
> through
> >
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylar_Integrator_Reference#Tasks_fram
> ework
> > and have modeled my connector after the Trac connector as suggested
> by
> > this page.
>   Hmm, there are several sections in that document on that suppose to
> give more or less step by step instructions. You are very welcome to
> extend and clarify this information.
> 
>   For example, web connector only implementing first 3 sections from
> this list:
> 
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylar_Integrator_Reference#Creating_c
> onnector_projects
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylar_Integrator_Reference#Implementi
> ng_core_extension_points
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylar_Integrator_Reference#Implementi
> ng_UI_extension_points
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylar_Integrator_Reference#Query_supp
> ort
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylar_Integrator_Reference#Task_edito
> r
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylar_Integrator_Reference#Offline_da
> ta_handling
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylar_Integrator_Reference#Deployment
> _tips
> 
> > I have found that you can't really incrementally implement your
> > connector. Once you start adding a new task, the calls Mylar makes to
> > your connector plugin require a pretty complete understanding of
> > repository implementation.
>   Not quite true. You do have to have all the methods, but most of them
> can be just stubs (i.e. return null or false).
> > With the scant documentation you have to reverse engineer the
> > functionality with the debugger. It seems that it should be possible
> > to have an abstract or basic implementation and model that functions
> > with minimal work, then you evolve the rest of the features.
> >
> > I have started to document my experience
> > (http://jvliet.blogspot.com/2007/02/creating-mylar-connector-plugin-
> for.html)
> > but this is incomplete and I suspect wrong in a few places.
>   Nice.
> > I want to contribute either documentation on how to create a mylar
> > connector, a template project that makes it easy to start slowly or a
> > combination. How should I go about doing this? Is there better
> > documentation to start with for connectors? Is this the right mailing
> > list to watch (it seems a little light on traffic)?
>   You can contribute to the above sections on Mylar's wiki. I think it
> would make sense to break your document along those sections and add
> pieces into above sections as a practical illustration.
> 
>   regards,
>   Eugene
> 
> 
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